Ah, George Porgy, puddin’ and pie. I don’t know if you kissed the girls and made them cry, but you make the rest of us laugh so hard we wept — that is, when we’re not shaking our heads, wondering what in the world ever made you think you could get away with what you did? But George is a man of a certain era and he fits right into Trump world. George legitimately was once a customer service rep for a cable company. And that’s a job he’s qualified to fill. But then along came Donald Trump and the MAGA sky knows no limit. Soon, he was a United States congressman.
But all that ended a while back after his conviction for wire fraud and embezzlement. Tomorrow he reports to the house of many doors, having failed to obtain a presidential pardon from his idol. He’s looking at seven years. Quick, George, develop some insider knowledge on Jeffrey Epstein, I hear that’s the ticket to a commuted sentence these days.
He’s either turning himself in to prison finally or fleeing the country. pic.twitter.com/xmANxwIAjy
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 24, 2025
“Legends never truly exit.” No, Norma Desmond would agree with that. Here’s George’s last interview, although I will print excerpts from it below.
ON ASKING PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR A PARDON:
“I have already done that. I don’t think it made it to the president. Unfortunately, gatekeepers have blockaded forever getting to the President. I didn’t care to make friends because I was there to serve the people. And it led to me rubbing a lot of people off the wrong way. And now they’re, as they say, the chickens are coming home to roost and they’re taking advantage of my predicament to settle petty scores.
“I would be very, very inclined and keen to share with you guys the full part of an application so you guys are able to report on it. But it’s essentially outlining the discrepancies in my case, the overly charged case, the overzealous political sentence, which in most cases would result in maybe a probationary sentence or 18 month incarceratory sentence. But instead they souped up and ignored Supreme Court rulings such as the duping decision to make a stretch on identity theft, which is quite laughable the way they go about it and ignore precedent by the Supreme Court. But at the end, I just outlined the merits of the case. It doesn’t come down to loyalty or politics. It really comes down to the merits and the case and the violations of the DOJ throughout the case.”
ON WHEN HE IS GOING TO PRISON FOR 87 MONTHS:Â
“That’s Friday, tomorrow, Friday the 25th of July. I have to surrender by the 2pm mark at the facility I’ve been designated to.”
ON HIS RECENT TWEET ABOUT BEING SUICIDAL:
“There’s a very large track record of gay men only having a 40% survivability rate in federal custody due to the poor management of BOP keeping inmates safe. So I just wanted that to be very clear. And then there’s also the political nature of that, which people that don’t shut up, if for the lack of a better term, we tend to be silenced. So I wanted to draw a line for the American people and for the whole world, quite frankly, to know and I’m glad that folks across the world are paying attention and they get to see this because you just never know in the world we live in.”
WHEN ASKED IF HE WAS ‘REMORSEFUL’:
“That’s an understatement, right? A lot of people keep saying, oh, he’s not remorseful. Remorse, yes. I have tonnes of remorse. I’m remorseful I ever got involved in politics. I’m remorseful that I got involved and caught up with the wrong people. I’m remorseful for some of the insanely irresponsible decisions I made and actions I condoned. So yes, I’m terribly remorseful. Am I going to silence myself and not share my opinion? Absolutely not. So, the two things can be true at the same time, but it seems that a remorseful person should essentially go away and be silent. I disagree on that.”
ON WHAT HE WOULD SAY TO HIS VICTIMS:
“You know, I’ve swear this away in my brain and I’ve just put out a sincere apology. I know there’s a lot of sensational reporting around the amounts involved here from my campaign and the amounts of losses. I know that the sensational nature of the entire case and the way it was reported in the media and the way that DOJ meticulously, you know, presented it makes people believe that I fleece people for hundreds of thousands of dollars when in reality it was really campaign finance misuse. There’s no instance of me taking a person’s credit card and going shopping. That is also a falsehood that’s been perpetrated as truth and quite easily explained if the entirety of the case is to be read. But I do apologise for those supporters, and those donors, and everybody who I hurt, who I betrayed, and felt betrayed by me. Not a day goes by that I do not regret my actions, regret my behaviour, and that I sit at home and don’t contemplate and ponder what the hell have I done to me and to everyone else.”
ON HOW HE WILL COPE FOR 87 MONTHS WITHOUT COSMETIC WORK AFTER PREVIOUSLY SAYING HIS FACE IS 30% FILLER:
“Let me put it this way. My aesthetics are the least of my worry. That’s something so easily fixed within a day after being out. So I’m not worried about that. I’m more worried about my mental health. We can fix the outside if it’s broken. Modern medicine has afforded us that, but the inside, the spiritual, the mental, the psyche is what I’m most concerned about. I could care less about everything else.”
ON HOW HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE TAKING THE NEWS:
“Oh, it’s rough because I’m being incarcerated for something that no other member of Congress has been incarcerated for, which are FEC violations that were spun up and souped up by the Biden DOJ and Merrick Arlen designed to quite literally step on my neck. So it’s frustrating. Everybody’s a mixture of angry, sad. It’s just an entire disrupted family at this point and I understand, I put myself in this predicament, but I think there’s no equal application of justice at the moment.”
ON LIFE AFTER PRISON:
“You know, that’s a question I keep asking myself quite regularly. I’m having a hard time seeing past it. There’s just a very dark sense that this is kind of the end of the road. But in a hypothetical here, and I’ll indulge you, if there were to be life after prison, I would say I look at it as an opportunity for growth. I want to engage, and I’ve already had tonnes of discussions around the subject. I wanna engage in government transparency and really build a life and a legacy of exposing fraud, corruption, abuse inside of the federal government, specifically with elected officials. So the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, and I’m going to dedicate the rest of my life, if given the opportunity to do that, because I think it’s become too partisan, the watchdog groups, I think it should be equally applied across the board, not in a partisan fashion.”
Now you know. George is going to come back from prison and be a moral watchdog, a guardian angel of the commonweal, protecting us all from governmental misbehavior. Uh huh. But that will be after he gets his face fixed. In all seriousness, I wish the man a lot of luck, not just in prison, but coping with reality.
Good Lord, his face is wot? 30% filler? Like a bad fender job? What the hell’s with these “conservatives” anyway? Are they incapable of facing the world without surgery to “improve” what God gave them? As Donald would say: sad.
I don’t know what that weird face that all the MAGA women get is about. And I don’t have a clue what Santos had done to himself. He looks the same to me. But I guess it will all fall apart in prison. What a life to look forward to.
“…I wanna engage in government transparency and really build a life and a legacy of exposing fraud, corruption, abuse inside of the federal government, specifically with elected officials. So the House of Representatives and the United States Senate…”
You’ve already done that, George. Problem was you DID the fraud corruption and abuse, and GOT CAUGHT.
Pretty clever, there, buddy. Most other people with that goal in mind don’t choose to do the criminal part though. Doh…
I often wonder what these grifters think. George Santos thought he would simply get away with it, I guess. How anybody can be that certain that they can break the law and just walk away scot free is amazing to me.
As a former prisoner in a state pen, I know he will find it easier with the feds…that being said, there are dangerous people there. Life after prison??? George my advice to you, given what a self serving weasel you are, there is NO guarantee you’ll have a life after prison. Cross the wrong person at the wrong time and…well…you’re going to find out.
This is a naive question, but could George get killed while in prison? What odds would you lay on that?