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Serial liar George Santos will ask President Trump for a pardon, his attorney said Tuesday — days after the disgraced former congressman bawled in federal court as he was sentenced to seven years behind bars.

Santos pleaded guilty to wire fraud and identity theft ahead of his Friday sentencing, but his attorney blamed politics for the charges and prison time because the truth-challenged Long Islander was a “gay Republican” in a Democratic-leaning congressional district.

“Next to President Donald Trump, George Santos is the most hated man in the world,” Santos’ attorney Joseph Murray told Newsday.


  Disgraced ex-Rep. George Santos wants a pardon from President Trump — days after he was handed a seven-year sentence behind bars. AFP via Getty Images Disgraced ex-Rep. George Santos wants a pardon from President Trump — days after he was handed a seven-year sentence behind bars. AFP via Getty Images

“I’m confident that if I share what took place with President Donald Trump, or the White House, that they will agree with me, that this was very political.

“We are definitely going to apply for a pardon or clemency,” he added.

“I believe both the prosecution and the sentencing was because a gay Republican [Santos] won a congressional seat in a Biden plus-10 district. Everything else was window dressing. I really do believe that.”

The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Santos was in Congress for just 11 months before he was given the boot over a damning House Ethics Committee report that found “substantial evidence” he broke federal laws.


  Santos pleaded guilty to wire fraud and identity theft prior to his sentence being handed out on Friday, though his attorney, Joseph Murray, blamed politics for the charges and prison time. Brigitte Stelzer Santos pleaded guilty to wire fraud and identity theft prior to his sentence being handed out on Friday, though his attorney, Joseph Murray, blamed politics for the charges and prison time. Brigitte Stelzer

But Murray claimed Santos was first targeted by what he said was a partisan Justice Department under then-President Joe Biden.

“It’s so obvious it’s political,” he told Newsday.

“I was shocked, I can’t tell you how many calls I’ve gotten from people — Republican and Democrat — who said this is so political, there’s no way anyone would have gotten this time if they weren’t George Santos.’

“I don’t think he should have done a day in jail, I really don’t. I think we are archaic the way we put people in cages for these financial crimes,” he added.

The US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York hit back at the accusations that Santos was targeted for political reasons.

“The record in this case — including the Court’s findings, the indictment, George Santos’s admissions during his guilty plea, the memoranda and statements made in connection with his sentencing — speaks for itself,” said US Attorney John J. Durham.

“The timing of Santos’s arraignment was driven by the timing of the Grand Jury’s indictment of Santos and the schedule of the court handling the arraignment, and nothing else. The career prosecutors and investigators on this case conducted themselves with rigorous professionalism and Mr. Murray’s claims to the contrary are entirely baseless.”

Santos was indicted in May 2023 and eventually hit with 23 charges tied to five separate schemes before agreeing to a guilty plea.

Prosecutors said he inflated his campaign fundraising numbers to qualify for federal matching funds, stole from his donors by fraudulently charging their credit cards, pocketed more than $24,000 in unemployment benefits while holding a job, and lied on his financial disclosure forms to Congress.

Santos is set to turn himself over to the feds July 25.

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