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Joe Exotic Of ‘Tiger King’ Believes He Was ‘Too Gay’ To Receive Trump Pardon
WaPo ^ | 1/21/21 | Curtis M. Wong

Posted on 01/21/2021 4:50:58 PM PST by DoodleDawg

Joe Exotic offered a sharp rebuke of Donald Trump this week after he failed to secure a presidential pardon.

The star of the Netflix series “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” is serving a 22-year sentence after being convicted of plotting to murder longtime rival and animal rights activist Carole Baskin, as well as violating federal wildlife laws. The former zookeeper was said to have been so confident he’d be included on Trump’s clemency list that his legal team had ordered a limousine to retrieve him from a Fort Worth prison.

But when Trump issued 144 pardons and commutations just hours before his term ended Wednesday, Exotic ― whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage ― was not included. The 57-year-old expressed his frustrations on Twitter, implying that his sexuality may have played a factor in the former president’s decision.

“I was too innocent and too GAY to deserve a Pardon from Trump,” he tweeted Wednesday afternoon. Referencing a meme shared by Donald Trump Jr. in March that showed his father’s head superimposed on Exotic’s mugshot, he added, “Boy were we all stupid to believe he actually stood for Equal Justice? His corrupt friends all come first.”

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KEYWORDS: chat; chatforum; homosexualagenda; notnews; tigerking; trump
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I read this and I confess my only reaction was...how does someone in prison for attempted murder have access to Twitter?
1 posted on 01/21/2021 4:50:58 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Maybe too guilty and undeserving?


2 posted on 01/21/2021 4:51:46 PM PST by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Worker)
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To: DoodleDawg

Somebody is running his account from the outside, or he’s in a prison where they allow limited computer use that are monitored by the prison system.

I don’t know the rules about phone usage to pass on Twitter messages.


3 posted on 01/21/2021 4:54:42 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: DoodleDawg

Convicted felons in prison have access to Twitter... but President Trump doesn’t.


4 posted on 01/21/2021 4:54:44 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: DoodleDawg

Ask Biden for a pardon... let’s see if you’re gay enough for him


5 posted on 01/21/2021 4:55:44 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: DoodleDawg

I get it, he’s a zany celebrity that was funny. And the lady he was conspiring to murder almost certainly conspired to murder her own husband so she’s no innocent victim. But he did conspire to murder someone. Don’t think he’s the poster child for ‘deserved a pardon’


6 posted on 01/21/2021 4:56:10 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: DoodleDawg

I think “too deranged” covers it.


7 posted on 01/21/2021 4:56:11 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: DoodleDawg

Tiger King will do the whole 22 years.


8 posted on 01/21/2021 4:56:17 PM PST by Meatspace
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No. He was too dirtball and too trashy. Nothing to do with being a homo.

9 posted on 01/21/2021 4:58:15 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O my great Redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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"Ask Biden for a pardon... let’s see if you’re gay enough for him"

Probably have a shot at a Biden pardon if he went transgendered.

10 posted on 01/21/2021 5:02:05 PM PST by DannyTN
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Freepers in Jersey would get this

Some reason I just have to post this every time I see this clown mentioned.

Glad he didn't get a pardon, I just can't understand why he thought he would get one?

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11 posted on 01/21/2021 5:04:13 PM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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This guy thought he would get a pardon? More than a few fries short of a happy meal.


12 posted on 01/21/2021 5:04:27 PM PST by colorado tanker
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He did conspire to kill someone even if it was never going to happen.


13 posted on 01/21/2021 5:04:59 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Assange )
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To: Meatspace

Tiger King will do the whole 22 years.


And enjoy it....


14 posted on 01/21/2021 5:05:07 PM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Reno89519

Too nuts


15 posted on 01/21/2021 5:11:24 PM PST by eeriegeno
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To: Reno89519

I couldn’t agree more with your comment and the ones of similar tenor. Now if only Carole Baskin were persecuted for murdering her husband, justice would be complete


16 posted on 01/21/2021 5:11:58 PM PST by j.havenfarm (20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: DoodleDawg

He’s in prison and he’s allowed to get on twitter sending out messages?


17 posted on 01/21/2021 5:13:57 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: DoodleDawg

You have to pay the stated price. Most of the people pardoned were quite wealthy and able to fund the offshore accounts easily. Rap stars and swindlers of various types. Joe Exotic is broke, what can he bribe them with?


18 posted on 01/21/2021 5:15:20 PM PST by babble-on
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To: DoodleDawg

What if he was going to be pardoned until the World found out he ordered a limo? Seems kind of pushy. Was he thinking that would “force” Trump to pardon him?


19 posted on 01/21/2021 5:18:11 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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20 posted on 01/21/2021 5:19:15 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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