A drug dealer who had his prison sentence commuted by President Donald Trump has been sent back to prison for more than two years after sexually abusing a nanny and assaulting a toddler.

Jonathan Braun, 41, was handed a 27 month sentence in court on Monday after violating the terms of his previous release with several new charges.

The wealthy Long Island man had been accused of swinging an IV pole at a hospital nurse and threatening to kill her, groping his family’s nanny and shoving a three-year-old to the ground during an argument with the child’s father at a Shabbat dinner.

Braun, speaking in a Brooklyn federal court hearing attended by his family, apologized to his victims and loved ones.

He acknowledged they had tried to get him help for his substance abuse and mental health problems before he spiraled out of control.

‘I have no one to blame but me,’ he said.

Braun also thanked Judge Kiyo Matsumoto for detaining him in April when he was arrested, saying the past seven months locked up in a Brooklyn federal jail ‘saved my life’ by helping him get sober.

He had previously served a little over a year of his decade-long sentence for running an illegal marijuana cartel when Trump set him free along with 142 others on January 20, 2021, during his first term.

Jonathan Braun, 41, (left, pictured with Trump after his sentence was commuted) who had his prison sentence commuted by Donald Trump is back behind bars after a string of alleged crimes

Convicted for orchestrating a sprawling marijuana smuggling ring , Trump commuted his sentence after he was reportedly lobbied by associates connected to the Kushner family 

At the time, the White House described the commutation as ‘well-deserved,’ with vague references to ‘rehabilitation’ and ‘family support’ after he was convicted for orchestrating the sprawling marijuana smuggling ring.

Trump was reportedly lobbied by associates connected to the Kushner family. 

Braun’s name appeared on a controversial list of last-minute clemency recipients on the final day of Trump’s first term.

The move sparked criticism, not only because of Braun’s drug trafficking record, but due to his involvement in high-interest ‘merchant cash advance’ lending schemes.

Braun, who took a photo with Trump at one of his Florida golf courses the following year, ran a predatory finance operation that charged desperate small businesses rates as high as 1,000 percent. 

While he was released from prison, the rest of his sentence remained intact, including requirements that he pay a fine and stay out of trouble.

His family’s former live-in nanny, who he allegedly groped on the job, attended Monday’s proceedings by phone and asked prosecutors to read her statement in court.

She said she was ‘grateful that justice had been served’ as she had not only lost her job, but also ‘endured deep emotional trauma’ that left her ‘with lasting trust issues.’ 

Federal prosecutors revealed Jonathan Braun, 41, carried out a pattern of alleged violence, intimidation, and sexual misconduct

Prosecutors said Braun entered the bedroom of his children’s live-in nanny in February, put her in a headlock and grabbed her breasts while making unwanted sexual advances. 

The nanny testified in court that Braun’s actions made her so uncomfortable that she locked herself in a bathroom, called her husband and asked him to notify police. 

During a Shabbat dinner held at his Nassau County home, Braun allegedly punched a man during an argument, then shoved the man’s three-year-old child to the ground, ‘causing a red mark on his back and substantial pain,’ prosecutors said in earlier court filings. 

In March, prosecutors said Braun grabbed and threatened a fellow worshipper who asked him to be quiet during a synagogue service. 

Braun allegedly got in the man’s face, squeezed his right arm and asked him: ‘Do you know who I am?’ and ‘Do you know what I could have done to you?’ 

Edward Miller, the synagogue congregant Braun threatened, recalled how Braun had gone on a drug-fueled ‘rampage’ in their affluent Long Island community, ‘freaking out all over the place.’

Still, he felt that additional prison time would only worsen his condition, which he believed was better treated in a professional treatment setting.

‘He’s not a hardened criminal,’ Miller said. ‘He’s a sick man.’

Prosecutors said Braun entered the bedroom of his children’s live-in nanny in February, wrapped an arm around her upper body and used the other to put her in a headlock before grabbing her breasts and making unwanted sexual advances 

Prosecutors had sought a five-year sentence, arguing Braun’s ‘brazen and violent conduct’ had ’caused fear and terror in his victims’ and showed he remained a ‘serious danger to the community.’

‘This defendant has had many, many chances,’ Assistant US Attorney Tanya Hajjar said in court.

But Braun’s federal public defender, Kathryn Wozencroft, argued for his immediate release, saying he’s taken steps to rebuild his life while behind bars, including meeting with a psychiatrist and talking with a rabbi twice a week. 

Braun’s conduct, she said, was driven by ‘a pretty significant psychiatric crisis’ fueled by hallucinogenic drugs.

Judge Matsumoto, in sentencing Braun to 27 months behind bars said she hoped his ‘expressions of remorse’ and promises to ‘lead a law-abiding life’ were in good faith, noting that many of the people who he had harmed have since forgiven him. 

‘Don’t squander it,’ she told him.