Trump Asked If He Would Consider Pardon for ‘Tiger King’ Star Joe Exotic Amid Crisis
President Donald Trump was asked an unexpected question during the White House’s coronavirus press briefing. During Wednesday’s press briefing, a New York Post reporter asked the president if he would consider a pardon…
President Donald Trump was asked an unexpected question during the White House’s coronavirus press briefing.
During Wednesday’s press briefing, a New York Post reporter asked the president if he would consider a pardon for Joseph Maldonado-Passage, known as Joe Exotic.
Maldonado-Passage was found guilty in January for a 2017 murder-to-hire plot to kill an animal rights activist, Carole Baskin.
He was “found guilty of nine counts of violating the Endangered Species Act” and “convicted on another eight counts of violations to the Lacey Act for falsifying wildlife records for ‘interstate’ transactions,” as NBC News reports. The former wildlife park owner was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison.
Asked if he would consider a pardon for the Netflix star of the documentary series “Tiger King,” Trump said, “I don’t know, I know nothing about it.”
The reporter pointed out Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., recently spoke about this during an interview on SiriusXM’s “Jim Norton and Sam Roberts” radio show. Donald Trump Jr. joked