Gay pathological liar and financial fraudster, former Rep. George Santos (R-NY), cried and begged the president for a pardon in a recent episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored. Santos, who previously said that he wouldn’t ask the president for a pardon, said he’s worried about being “seriously harmed” in prison by immigrants angered by his anti-immigration rhetoric and feels sad that his 78-month prison sentence may separate him from his four dogs and his autistic niece.

“I am in the process of filling out an application for a pardon for the president,” Santos said. “I’ll take the commutation, clemency, whatever the president is willing to give me. I don’t want this to seem like a political pitch. I want it to be a fair pitch. And I think [there is] no one better than President Trump to know what a weaponized Justice Department looks like. This is exactly it, seven years and three months in prison for a first-time offender over campaign matters, just screams over the top.”

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Santos claimed that Democrats and Republican Congress members have offered support after his sentencing, but refused to name them, saying that the media would “shame them to bits and pieces” if he did.

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Santos later referred to himself as a “sinking ship” and noted that he’s 37 years old and would be 44 years old after serving his prison sentence. He then complained about failing his family members who depend on him for emotional and financial support, including his sister, who has a “severely autistic” and nonverbal seven-year-old daughter that he helps care for.

“The seclusion of prison seems like almost a death sentence to somebody with my [social] personality traits,” he said. “

“I feel an immense amount of guilt,” he added. “I’m hurting her, which is the last thing I want to do… I’ve dedicated the last seven years of my life to getting her the best medical care money can buy and resources and therapies, because it’s been my mission for quite some time that I keep saying she’s not nonverbal, she’s pre-verbal. She will speak… and now for me to do this, it’s just going to be a major setback and turn what was once lots of hope for me into darker reality, and can have long-term effects on her life.”

He then expressed worry about being harmed in prison. Numerous studies have shown that LGBTQ+ prisoners experience higher rates of physical and sexual violence, and the president that Santos supports just ended funding for enforcing the Prison Rape Elimination Act.

“Look, going to prison is one thing, being subject to risk is another,” Santos said. “I have full faith in the [Federal Bureau of Prisons]; I just caution them to please make sure that they make the right decision in protecting me. That’s all I’m asking. I’m not asking for special treatment. I’m just asking for protective custody so that I don’t become a statistic. That’s all I’m really asking for.”

He then blamed his previous nonstop lying and numerous instances of financial fraud on his “blind ambition,” saying, “Ambition is a drug. It’s terrible. It breaks you. It shapes you into something you can’t even recognize. And when I look back, it’s embarrassing…. I lost complete control.”

He then said that he tries to be “radically transparent … even to a detriment almost,” claiming, “I rather my demise be radical transparency than an ounce or a centimeter of obfuscation or disingenuous lies. So that’s just the approach I’ve taken in my life.”

It’s unclear when in his life he’s referring to, since he stole and used another man’s checks in his home country of Brazil (and lied about it), appeared in public as a drag queen (and lied about it), lied about extensive parts of his campaign biography while running for office — including about being Jewish — and then professed complete innocence of the charges against him until he accepted a plea deal to avoid more prison time.

He also told Piers Morgan that he will be able to pay off the $374,000 in court-ordered restitution owed to his victims before he has to surrender himself to prison authorities in less than 81 days. He didn’t explain where he would get the money from.

“If I had the opportunity, I’d say, ‘President Trump, I appreciate if you can give me a consideration. I’m not an altar boy, not pretending to be one, but I’m not a hardened criminal who deserves to be in prison for seven years, off what I would call ‘ambitious mistakes’ and something that I deeply regret, and I would like to take all of the bad I’ve done and transform it into a positive… to be able to sniff out other bad actors doing similar actions that I did.'”

Morgan is transphobic and recently invited a racist white woman to say the n-word in front of a Black guest on his program.

What is George Santos guilty of?

Last August, Santos admitted to using campaign funds, another person’s identity, and their credit cards for his own personal benefit. A November 16, 2023, House Ethics Committee report accused Santos of illegally spending campaign funds on luxury goods, OnlyFans subscriptions, and cosmetic Botox treatments. Immediately after, the House voted to expel Santos in a 311-114 vote that included 105 Republicans and surpassing the 290 votes needed for expulsion.

Santos originally faced 23 federal charges of campaign finance fraud, including wire fraud, identity theft, money laundering, theft of public funds, and making materially false statements to both the Federal Election Commission and the U.S. House of Representatives.

Santos has since admitted that he lied about graduating from Baruch College and New York University, working directly for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, and living at a fake address in his congressional district. He provided no additional proof to back up claims that he founded a charity called Friends of Pets, that he lost four employees in the June 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting, and that his mother died in connection to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

After his expulsion, Santos began making money creating personalized videos on the Cameo platform. Santos claimed that his largely fake campaign biography — which he previously admitted fabricating due to “stupidity” and “insecurity” — was actually falsified by an unnamed “former campaign staffer.”

“From his creation of a wholly fictitious biography to his callous theft of money from elderly and impaired donors, Santos’s unrestrained greed and voracious appetite for fame enabled him to exploit the very system by which we select our representatives,” Department of Justice prosecutors wrote in their request for a seven-year prison sentence.

After joining Congress, Santos cosponsored a bill to roll back LGBTQ+ civil rights and one to ban LGBTQ+ books from schools. He also made public statements against transgender people and the so-called “radical rainbow mafia.” Additionally, he said that LGBTQ+ families “create troubled individuals.”

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