Advertisement“I hate it,” Tillis told reporters on Tuesday about the Hernandez pardon. Following Trump’s pardon, he walked out of prison on Monday. Over the weekend, he commuted the seven-year sentence of David Gentile, a private equity leader who helped defraud thousands of people out of $1.6 billion, almost as soon as his prison sentence began. He commuted the prison sentence of former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), releasing him from federal prison. And he granted a pardon to a Chinese crypto billionaire felon after his company enriched a Trump family business.