{"id":42218,"date":"2025-04-25T17:14:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T22:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42218"},"modified":"2025-04-25T17:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T22:14:56","slug":"he-had-his-time-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/04\/25\/he-had-his-time-in-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"He Had His Time In The Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now it&#8217;s time for the hole.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Disgraced former U.S. Rep.\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/george-santos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:George Santos;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-rapid_p=\"6\" data-v9y=\"1\">George Santos<\/a>\u00a0was sentenced Friday to over seven years in prison, sobbing as he learned his punishment for the crimes that led to his expulsion from Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Santos, who\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/george-santos-plea-court-new-york-90741d068fd94090419fc0fd79be30cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:pleaded guilty;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-rapid_p=\"7\" data-v9y=\"1\">pleaded guilty<\/a>\u00a0last summer to federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, appealed for mercy. In a federal court a short drive from his old congressional district, he said through tears that he was \u201chumbled\u201d and \u201cchastised\u201d and realized he had betrayed his constituents&#8217; trust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI offer my deepest apologies,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cI cannot rewrite the past, but I can control the road ahead.\u201d<em> [<strong>AP<\/strong> via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/ex-us-rep-george-santos-040146373.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>yahoo! news<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Or does it? I wonder if President Trump is pondering a pardon, as Santos took negative attention away from President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>I think it goes without saying that Santos would accept it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now it&#8217;s time for the hole. Disgraced former U.S. Rep.\u00a0George Santos\u00a0was sentenced Friday to over seven years in prison, sobbing as he learned his punishment for the crimes that led to his expulsion from Congress. Santos, who\u00a0pleaded guilty\u00a0last summer to federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, appealed for \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/04\/25\/he-had-his-time-in-the-spotlight\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42219,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42218\/revisions\/42219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}