Posted on 01/25/2021 3:33:40 PM PST by nickcarraway
The ‘Tiger King’ star said he was “too innocent and too GAY” to receive a pardon from Trump
Joe Exotic is still holding out for a presidential pardon from new US president Joe Biden.
Exotic, the big cat owner who became an overnight celebrity upon the release of Netflix’s Tiger King last year, had been hoping for a pardon from former president Donald Trump, going as far as to have a limousine parked outside his prison in anticipation of his release.
In new emails sent to his team by Exotic that have been obtained by TMZ, the TV star has expressed hope that the new administration will grant him the pardon Trump refused.
Some of his optimism reportedly stems from a TV show he watched based around new Vice President Kamala Harris, which TMZ says led Exotic to believe that Harris can “help clean up the corruption in the DOJ and other agencies”.
“I was too innocent and too GAY to deserve a Pardon from Trump,” Exotic wrote in a tweet last week after he failed to make Trump’s extensive list of last-minute pardons before he exited office.
“I only mattered to Don Jr. when he needed to make a comment about me to boost his social media post,” he continued. “Boy were we all stupid to believe he actually stood for Equal Justice? His corrupt friends all come first.”
The zoo owner is currently serving a 22-year sentence at a Fort Worth, Texas prison for attempting to hire a hitman to assassinate his rival Carole Baskin, in addition to a myriad of animal abuse charges.
As well as having a stretch-truck limousine parked outside his prison to transport him to a secure location if he received a pardon, the head lawyer on Exotic’s case, private investigator Eric Love, also filmed a celebration video in anticipation – so confident he was that Exotic would be released from prison.
143 people in total were recipients of Trump’s pardons or had their sentences commuted on his final day in office. Those pardoned included the likes of Lil Wayne, Kodak Black and Death Row records co-founder Michael ‘Harry-O’ Harris.
Yeah, the murder-for-hire charge is one of those little failings that can make a judge downright cranky.
He’s still too gay let him rot.
Delusional
I doubt anyone cares whether he is sexually attracted to men or not-but hiring a sicario to take out a business rival doesn’t exactly suggest innocence-he is lucky to have only gotten 22 years-if the woman who was his competition had been harmed/killed, he could have gotten 50 years-or even life...
Joe Dirt did have a really fine Dodge Daytona or a Plymouth Superbird (can’t remember which).
She just needed a resto job. Especially after he knocked off the wing. That made me cringe.
Your 15 hours of fame are over cupcake!
That Baskins chick reminded me 100% of Hillary Clinton.
LOL! I wouldn’t bet the ranch on a Biden pardon.
Mr. Exotic is going to do that entire 22 years.
If he could frame it as a poke in the eye to Trump he would be out tomorrow
I am not sure I believe he is guilty, but then I am not sure I would put anything past the former street whore either.
Maybe he could make bail money as Butthole King.
“C’mon man, I’m a fellow Joe after all!”
He's serving an attempted murder sentence and Twitter allows him to tweet from jail, but PragerU, etc. get ghosted, suspended, etc.
He’s lobbying the wrong people. He ought to call Pete Buttgigger, for the promise of a little rub-rub action I’m sure Pete would put in a good word for him with Biden.
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