(NewsNation) — Former Republican Congressman George Santos, freed from federal prison last week after a commutation from President Trump, is telling a new story about whether he’ll repay the victims he defrauded.

Santos was ordered to pay more than $370,000 in restitution, as part of his 87-month sentence for wire fraud and identity theft, but the president’s clemency order wiped those debts clean. On his image-rehabilitation tour in recent days, Santos told some media outlets he would not repay the money because he was not legally obligated to do so.

On Wednesday's "CUOMO," Santos appeared to pivot to a new response: He’ll try.

“Look, I don’t have to, but I want to,” he said of the restitution he had been ordered to pay. “I guess that would definitely be a great start for me to prove t

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