President Donald Trump said Friday that he has the power to pardon disgraced former New York Republican U.S. Rep. George Santos, but emphasized that no one has requested it. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ + news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is urging the Trump administration to pardon former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who is serving a seven-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Ms. Greene, the hard-right House Republican from Georgia, called her former colleague’s seven-year sentence “excessive” in a letter to the U.S. pardon attorney.