President Donald Trump announced Friday that he commuted the prison sentence of former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., in a social media post that mostly attacked Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.

Santos pleaded guilty last year to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft after prosecutors charged him with various schemes, including one that accused him of inflating his campaign’s fundraising numbers to receive financial support from the national party. The former lawmaker had been facing 23 charges .

A judge in April sentenced him to 87 months in prison. A stiff sentence, prosecutors argued, was necessary to protect the public from being defrauded again by the former lawmaker.

“Over the course of many years, Santos has returned to a criminal lifestyle,” prosecutors wrote in a filing

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