Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has once again taken to social media to make a plea for President Donald Trump to pardon former New York congressman George Santos, saying that his imprisonment is “torture.”
Greene, who made a similar plea in August when Santos was just two weeks into his seven-year prison sentence, posted to the social media site X on Monday that Santos is being held in solitary confinement.
“I’m told he is in his cell 24 hours per day and he is only allowed to get a shower 3 times a week,” Greene wrote. “He does not get any sunlight. He’s only allowed to buy stamps from the commissary and is drinking water from the sink. He is in the cell on the right marked ‘after’ and there are no windows. This is torture.”
While Greene wrote that Santos was being held in solitary confinement “for his safety” due to threats, several people on X pointed out that before going to prison, Santos publicly requested that he be in solitary.
“No matter how long I go away I want and demand I be kept in solitary confinement for the entire duration,” Santos posted to X in April. “I refuse to lose my dignity in any way shape or form.”
Last month, Greene wrote a letter to Edward R. Martin Jr. in the Office of the Pardon Attorney, part of the Department of Justice, asking for Santos’ sentence to be commuted by Trump. On Monday, Greene said that she would update that letter to request a pardon of Santos.
While Santos is in solitary, he is still writing a column for the South Shore Press, based in Long Island, and made his own plea to Trump in a recent column.
“I renew my plea to President Trump: intervene. Help me escape this daily torment and let me return to my family,” Santos wrote.
Santos was elected to Congress in 2022 from a district spanning parts of Queens and Long Island, but faced controversy before even taking office when accusations surfaced that he had lied about his heritage, his education and his professional resume. He was in Congress less than a year before being expelled from the lawmaking body after a House Ethics Committee report found “overwhelming evidence” of lawbreaking.
