Former Rep. George Santos of New York, the disgraced Republican fabulist whose lies made him an object of national scorn, was released from a federal prison on Friday night after President Donald Trump commuted his seven-year sentence for fraud.

His lawyer, Joseph Murray, said that Santos was released from the Federal Correctional Institution Fairton in New Jersey after 10 p.m. Friday night. “A great injustice has been corrected,” Murray said.

In a social media post, Trump suggested that politics had been a major factor in his decision, commending Santos for sharing his views and contrasting him with Democrats. Calling the former member of Congress “somewhat of a ‘rogue,’” Trump said that he believed that Santos’ sentence was excessive given the nature of his financial crimes.

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