Disgraced ex-congressman George Santos has only been out of prison since Friday, but he's already back on network TV. Theodore Parisienne/New York Daily News/Zuma

In a ridiculous social media post the day before he headed off to federal prison for what was supposed to be a more than seven-year sentence, disgraced ex-congressman and known fabulist George Santos wrote, “I may be leaving the stage (for now), but trust me legends never truly exit.”

Less than three months later, Santos is back, following President Donald Trump’s announcement Friday night that he was commuting Santos’ sentence for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. And less than 48 hours after that, Santos is already back in the limelight of the Sunday morning interview circuit.

He sat down with CNN’s Dana Bash on State of the Union to address questions about his commutation and his post-prison plans. Santos alternated between claiming prison humbled him and insisting his sentence was unfair.

He claimed he had “no expectations” for a pardon and that he only found out about the commutation when fellow inmates told him they saw the news announced on TV. (Joseph Murray, Santos’ lawyer, told my colleague Noah Lanard that he was in “constant communication” with lawyers at the Justice........

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