On Newsmax, Matt Schlapp: “I'm not saying George Santos is a Santos, is a saint. But what I'm saying is that he's no more guilty than 40% of the people that are over there”
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From the October 20, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Chris Plante: The Right Squad
TIANA LOWE DOESCHER (GUEST): Look, Donald Trump, he's the first president to enter office supporting gay marriage. Big LGB ally -- I think we're all a little weird about the T right now because it's got a little crazy. But Donald Trump, this is not inconsistent of him, right?Trump has passed the First Step Act. He cares about prison reform. And the fact is, I don't think -- if he thought --
JASON NICHOLS (GUEST): So that's a second step.
DOESCHER: It was a commutation. It was not a pardon.
MATT SCHLAPP (GUEST): I think the second step are going to be --
MATTHEW FOLDI (GUEST): This is, by the way, way less controversial than Joe Biden's last minute autopen. Jason -- I mean Matt, tell us about the --
SCHLAPP: I think all of these pardons are the second step. And that's a very important part of this. So the prosecutors come up with all these scary terms like identity theft. You know what that was? He lied about his background, just like Senator Blumenthal, just like about 40% of the people in Congress, they embellish --
FOLDI: The Maryland governor.
SCHLAPP: They say they have master's degrees when they don't have master's degrees. Wire fraud, wire fraud - do you know what that really is? He misused money for his campaign that he shouldn't have a la Al Gore and all the Chinese teas and Mark Zuckerberg spending $400 million and never even have to answer to Congress --
DOESCHER: John Edwards.
SCHLAPP: The hypocrisy of all this that drives people crazy. I'm not saying George Santos is a Santos, is a saint. But what I'm saying is that he's no more guilty than 40% of the people that are over there.