President Donald Trump today commuted the sentence of former Rep. George Santos, the disgraced Republican fabulist from New York who was sentenced to more than 7 years in prison for financial fraud.

In a social media post, Trump called Santos “somewhat of a ‘rogue’” but said that he believed that the former Congress member’s sentence was excessive, given the nature of his crime. The president also suggested he’d been moved by Santos’ accounts of being in solitary confinement, which he had published in a local Long Island newspaper.

“George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated,” Trump wrote on social media. “Therefore, I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY. Good luck George, h

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