President Trump said Friday he commuted former New York Republican Congressman George Santos' prison sentence for fraud.

In a post on Truth Social, the president said Santos has been "horribly mistreated" in prison and will be released immediately.

Santos surrendered himself to a federal prison in New Jersey on July 25 to start serving a more than seven-year sentence after he pleaded guilty to wire fraud and identity theft charges.

The ex-Long Island congressman has been held at the Federal Bureau of Prisons at the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton. In April, he was sentenced to 87 months in prison . He was also ordered to pay $373,949.97 in fines and restitution.

"George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been

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