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When George Santos walked out of prison after serving less than three months of his sentence, he took a remaining chunk of law enforcement credibility with him.

The expelled ex-congressman, whose 7-year sentence was commuted by President Trump, isn’t just a clownish liar who invented wild stories about himself. He is a scam artist who cost his victims plenty of money, and then pleaded guilty.

But there is a much larger question about the Trump Justice Department and whether vast sums being used to investigate his political enemies also includes the use of his pardon power to let favored crooks, mostly Republicans, off the legal hook.

On the offensive end, the president has ordered investigations of such political foes a

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