Nick LaLota breaks with Trump over Santos commutation

Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) said he was “not happy” about President Donald Trump’s decision to grant clemency to former Republican New York Rep. George Santos on Friday.

LaLota was one of several congressional Republicans who first demanded Santos’s resignation in 2023. Santos pleaded guilty in August 2024 to several felony charges, including wire fraud and money laundering. Trump commuted Santos’s seven-year prison sentence on Friday after Santos served nearly three months in Fairton, New Jersey’s Federal Correctional Institution.