George Santos Admits He's Afraid Of Jail And Wants A Plea Deal

Disgraced former Republican Representative George Santos admitted during an interview with CBS New York that he is afraid of going to jail - he says that it is not a nice place and everyone should be afraid of it - and then admitted that he'd "happily" take a plea deal that involves anything other than jail. The likelihood of that happening is close to zero, as he even admits that he has nothing to offer prosecutors in return for a deal. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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So over the weekend, former Republican representative now disgraced US citizen. George Santos, uh, did an interview with CBS New York, where he admitted finally that he is in fact, afraid of going to prison. And he is totally willing to accept a plea deal if they wanna give him one. So, you know, prosecutors, I'm here, he got a deal for me. But here is George Santos in his own words, talking about why he is afraid of prison. Take a look.

Are you afraid of going to jail?

I think everybody should be afraid of going to jail. It's not a pretty place. And, uh, I definitely want to work very hard to avoid that as best as possible. So

What do you think you can offer the feds to prevent yourself from going to jail?

I have no idea. Marsha.

You're getting emotional.

No, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, I have no idea what I can do. It's, it's, I'm gonna negotiate the best I can.

And like, what, what will that, do you have any idea what that, what they're gonna look for? I mean, community service? Uh, uh,

I mean, if that's what they're offering, I'll do it. Uh, you know, happily. But again, I don't know if that's the case. Um, the reality is, I, it's the unknown. It's the great unknown.

Do you?

So let's start at the beginning, right? He would happily, well, actually, that's not the beginning. Excuse me. He, uh, he's afraid of prison because it's, it's not a pretty place. Now, I hope that he is not talking just aesthetically right? Like, eh, it's not pretty. I don't like it. You know, where's the, where's was the paint on the walls? It's gross. It's dimm, it's dark, it's dank. I hope he is talking about the fact that yeah, prison is probably pretty tough. I mean, I have not been to prison. I haven't been in jail, so I can't attest to that personally, but I'm willing to bet prison's not the happiest place on earth, right? We're not talking about going to Disney World. We're talking about a federal penitentiary. So, yeah, he's right. He is afraid. And everybody should be afraid of prison, as he says, right?

I'm not. Do you know why I'm not afraid of prison? George, do you know why my audience here is not afraid of prison? Uh, because we haven't broken the law. Like, everybody should be afraid of prison. Why? Like, what, what have we done that's going to end up with us going to prison? I, I don't think that's a thing, bud. And then of course, he's like, I'd happily accept a plea deal. But then he points out the big thing, and I'm assuming he's saying this. 'cause I have to imagine his lawyers have told him this. The, the prosecutors across the country don't just hand out plea deals willy-nilly, right? It's not like, ah, we don't feel like going after this. I don't wanna waste my time on it. Let me get a plea deal. Now, that happens, don't get me wrong. But in a high profile case like this, a plea deal isn't gonna mean very much to the prosecutors because they get nothing in exchange.

Like they've already done the legwork of the investigation. So we're not even talking about, you know, Hey, we can, we can stop your work right now. No, now they're just prepping for the trial. And to be honest, based on the timeline we've already seen with this, and when the indictments came down, they're probably ready to go to trial today if they had to. So you're not saving them any time. You're not saving them any money, really. And you have nobody to flip on. Like, if there was somebody on that ladder above you that you could give them information on that would result in, you know, one more high profile prosecution or a dozen smaller profile prosecutions, if you could take down some kind of crime syndicate with you, then yes, you would likely be offered a plea deal. But you're the top guy in this one.

They, they already got your, uh, uh, uh, campaign treasurer, I believe it was, and they agreed to cooperate. So they get the deal. But that was in order to, to get you. So you have nothing that these prosecutors want.