Disgraced former congressman George Santos stated he’s undecided he’ll survive his jail stint after being convicted of fraud and identification theft.
“I don’t know that I’ll survive it. They’re placing me in a violet jail,” Santos advised Tucker Carlson on his newest “Tucker Carlson Present” episode Friday. “…I’m not a streetwise man; I don’t know the way to battle.”
Santos was sentenced to over seven years in jail in April after he pleaded responsible final summer season to federal wire fraud and aggravated identification theft. He should report back to jail on July 25.
He stated he’s apprehensive about being a homosexual man in jail and that he “by no means needed to battle a day in my life.”
“I don’t know that I survived this. I’m — this could possibly be very a lot my final interview, and I’m not making an attempt to be overdramatic right here. I’m simply being sincere with you,” he stated. “I take a look at this as virtually a loss of life sentence to what may happen to me.”
This isn’t the primary time Santos has expressed fear about his time in jail. In a social media put up earlier this week he stated if he dies in jail, it wouldn’t be an accident.
“I’m heading to jail, of us and I would like you to listen to this loud and clear: I’m not suicidal. I’m not depressed. I’ve no intentions of harming myself, and I cannot willingly interact in any sexual exercise whereas I’m in there. If something comes out suggesting in any other case, take into account it a lie…full cease,” he wrote.
“The statistics round what occurs to homosexual males in BOP custody are horrifying, and that’s precisely why I’m placing this on the market now. So if one thing does occur, there’s no confusion,” he stated. “I did NOT kill myself.”
Santos grew to become the primary overtly homosexual Republican elected to Congress when he gained his New York Home seat in 2022.
Quickly after he was elected, the lies he advised about his private {and professional} background began to unravel. An ethics committee report decided there was “overwhelming proof” he broke the regulation a number of occasions and exploited his workplace for revenue.
He was expelled from the Home in December 2023.
After he was sentenced, he took to social media to say that he believes the size of his sentence is “an over-the-top politically influenced sentence.”
