George Santos continued his post-prison press tour with a visit to “The Tucker Carlson Show” — where the disgraced ex-lawmaker revealed he mostly met liberals during his 45-day stint behind bars.
“The inmates, to me, I called them ‘Extras in my journey,’” Santos told Carlson during the show’s Halloween episode. “I couldn’t find a lot of similarities with a lot of them. I think there was a group of 5 or 6 I could talk to. These were well-educated people, but it seems I am very liberal.
“There are lots of liberals in prison, you’d be shocked,” the former Long Island congressman continued. “Shocked by the amount of people who hated the president in there.”
Santos said the entire population inside Fairton Federal Prison cheered for him when President Trump granted him a surprise pardon.
All of them asked Santos to call their wives, he told Carlson.
“I left there with a stack of numbers I haven’t called,” he said, adding, “I’m definitely not cut out for prison.”
Santos whined that the conditions were nightmarish, particularly for someone who’s germophobic like him. He began working in the prison kitchen, where all of the meat they would serve was expired — in some instances, for over a year, he claimed.
He also said the guards weren’t very nice to him, and even turned his relatives away after they drove over two hours to visit him in the New Jersey prison.
Santos insisted they came on a day designated for inmate visits.
He weeped about the moment he learned his friend, Conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was shot dead, — while he was in “torturous” solitary confinement.
He “was sitting in cell on Oct. 10,” reflecting on 9/11, “and a [guard] knocks on my door,” asking him if he “knew” Charlie Kirk.
“Yeah, I know Charlie, I would call him a friend,” Santos replied.
“Oh no, you knew him — he was just murdered,” the guard said before walking off.
“I was by myself, I can’t call anyone,” he said. “I was wailing. ‘How do you tell me this and walk away?’ I was losing it — like losing it.”
The guards “took glee in my suffering,” Santos said. “This is a guy who I always found so inspirational. I [thought] he [was] going to be a president of the United States. I thought he would be a future president.
Sure, he was a little antagonistic, but who isn’t these days?”
Santos said the lack of mental health services available to the prisoners was daunting, while claiming the TVs are segregated.
“There’s a black TV, a white TV, an Hispanic TV, a sports TV, and then what we called CNN TV, because CNN was on all day,” he said. “If you’re a white guy and you go near the remote for the black people or the Spanish people … people will literally get stabbed with a shank if they do that.”
He still does not know what inspired Trump to pardon him.
“I don’t know what the determination was, but that same day, I had a legal call,” he said.
His attorney told him he was fixing the situation, and that he might be freed within weeks. Hours later, the news of his clemency hit the TVs.
“That was the first I heard,” he said. “I didn’t know what to do.” His first call once he was out of the big house? Marjorie Taylor Greene, who supported him daily during his prison term.
He said he broke down, and started “snotty crying.”
Prison “gave me everything I needed to look in the mirror and see the man looking back to realize, ‘You’re in trouble.’ I feel for the first time in my life free.”
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