President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of former Rep. George Santos of New York, ordering the release of the disgraced Republican fabulist whose lies made him an object of national scorn and whose financial misdeeds landed him a sentence of more than seven years in prison.

In a social media post announcing his decision, Trump commended Santos for sharing the president’s political views. Calling Santos “somewhat of a ‘rogue,’” Trump said that he believed that the former Congress member’s sentence was excessive, given the nature of his financial crimes.

The president also suggested he’d been moved by Santos’ accounts of being in prison, which he had published in a local Long Island newspaper.

“George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all a

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