President Donald Trump’s recent decision to commute the sentence of former Republican congressman George Santos sparked outrage among critics of the administration.

Santos, the winner of New York’s 3rd congressional district election in 2022, was slated to serve more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in August 2024. Trump last Friday announced he had commuted the ex-congressman’s sentence , and Santos was released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton later that day.

Santos, who was expelled from the House in December 2023, served less than three months of his 87-month sentence.

George Conway, the ex-husband of former Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, criticized Trump’s decision during a roundtable on MSNB

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