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Disgraced ex-congressman George Santos has only been out of prison since Friday, but he’s already back on network TV. <\/span>Theodore Parisienne\/New York Daily News\/Zuma<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n In a ridiculous<\/span> social media post the day before he headed off to federal prison for what was supposed to be<\/a> a more than seven-year sentence, disgraced ex-congressman<\/a> and known fabulist George Santos wrote<\/a>, \u201cI may be leaving the stage (for now), but trust me legends never truly exit.\u201d<\/p>\n Less than three months later, Santos is back, following President Donald Trump\u2019s announcement Friday night that he was commuting Santos\u2019 sentence for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft<\/a>. And less than 48 hours after that<\/em>, Santos is already <\/strong>back in the limelight of the Sunday morning interview circuit.<\/p>\n He sat down with<\/a> CNN\u2019s Dana Bash on State of the Union <\/em>to address questions about his commutation and his post-prison plans. Santos alternated between claiming prison humbled him and insisting his sentence was unfair.<\/p>\n He claimed he had \u201cno expectations\u201d for a pardon and that he only found out about the commutation when fellow inmates told him they saw the news announced on TV. (Joseph Murray, Santos\u2019 lawyer, told my colleague<\/a> Noah Lanard that he was in \u201cconstant communication\u201d with lawyers at the Justice Department\u2019s pardon office.) He told Bash that his seven-year sentence\u2014for participating in a credit card fraud scheme<\/a> to boost his campaign finances and using some of those funds for personal purchases like designer clothing and OnlyFans content\u2014was \u201cdisproportionate,\u201d and called for a commutation for his former staffer Sam Miele, who was sentenced<\/a> to a year in prison for wire fraud for his role in Santos\u2019 scheme.<\/p>\n Santos essentially admitted to Bash he would not pay $370,000 in restitution to his victims, given that Trump\u2019s action wipes out that obligation. \u201cIf it\u2019s required of me by the law, yes, if it\u2019s not, then no,\u201d he said<\/a>. \u201cI will do whatever the law requires me to do.\u201d<\/p>\n Santos described his time in prison \u201ca great equalizer\u201d and \u201cvery sobering.\u201d And like many formerly incarcerated celebrities, Santos said he now wants to work on prison reform that he\u2019s free. \u201cI told this to the President, that I\u2019d love to be involved with prison reform, and not in a partisan way, in a real human way, in a way that we effect it, that it helps society, it helps these individuals rebuild their lives, and we have a better system with less incarcerated people.\u201d<\/p>\n