Posted on 06/09/2018 9:22:55 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Alice Marie Johnson's life changed on Wednesday -- and she has US President Donald Trump and Kim Kardashian West to thank.
And thank them she did as soon as she left an Alabama prison after 21 years behind bars.
"I feel like my life is starting over again," an emotional Johnson told reporters outside the prison in Aliceville.
Trump commuted the first-time nonviolent drug offender's life sentence on Wednesday, one week after Kardashian pleaded her case in an Oval Office meeting with the President.
"I am going to make you proud that you gave me this second chance in life. And I will not disappoint the American public or the world that has so much faith in me," Johnson told CNN.
"It means that someone finally saw me, someone finally heard me, someone had mercy on me -- and that was President Trump, and so I'm so thankful for him and what he's done."
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I bet she will. I read she was a model prisoner.
This reminds me of C. S. Lewis contrasting “honest criminals” with evil politicians in That Hideous Strength.
(one more thing) He didn’t win it in the manner that I thought it would play out, nevertheless, I’m very glad that he won.
Trump should immediately issue an invitation to Ms. Johnson for a White House visit, five years hence, in 2023 to congratulate her on her success.
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