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This is a global player original podcast. And what about George Santos?

Boy. He just went away, seven years. You know, he was, he lied like hell.

I mean, I have to take.

Yeah.

And I didn't know him, but he was 100% for Trump.

That is Donald Trump, explaining why he has just commuted the seven-year sentence of a former

congressman, George Santos, imprisoned for fraud.

We have the first UK broadcast interview with George Santos coming up.

He was imprisoned for seven years. After Donald Trump's intervention, he only served three months of that seven-year sentence.

Is that what justice looks like in America? Just suck up to Donald Trump and you walk free.

Welcome to the Newsagents USA.

The Newsagents USA with Emily Maitliss and John Sopal.

It's John. It's Emily. And you might remember George Santos, who has been on the newsagents in the past.

We interviewed him last in January on inauguration day, on a very cold January afternoon in Washington, D.C.

And at that point, he was awaiting trial.

He was subsequently convicted, and he was given the maximum sentence, seven years,

for what was essentially aggravated identity theft, fraud, deception.

He started to serve that seven-year sentence, but he wrote a letter to Donald Trump.

And in that letter, he professed his loyalty, his fealty, his devotion, his admiration for the president.

And on Friday night, unbeknown to George Santos, his sentence was suddenly commuted, not pardoned, but commuted. In other words,

George Santos was told he would walk free and the amount of money that he owed to all the people that he had defrauded was wiped clean.

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