Joe Exotic’s legal team has a meeting and plan where they make the last attempt to get the Tiger King star forgiven by President Donald Trump before he leaves office.
The group – led by Eric Love – will fly to Washington DC next Wednesday, January 6, for a ‘high-level’ meeting regarding their forgiveness petition, according to TMZ on Thursday.
The publication claims that Love knows how to soothe the 45th U.S. president’s ego, as the House of Representatives will vote on that day to ratify Joe Biden as the next president, while Trump (74) plans a rally.
Tiger King: Joe Exotic’s legal team has a meeting and plan as they make the final effort to get the Tiger King star forgiven by President Donald Trump before he leaves office, according to TMZ, as seen in August 2013.
On the way out: the publication claims that Love knows how to soothe the 45th American president’s ego, because on that day, the House of Representatives will vote to ratify Joe Biden as the next president while Trump (74) plans a rally.
According to their informants, there is a buzz that the commander-in-chief can forgive several people on January 6 to serve as a distraction so that the vote does not get the normal attention.
It comes just a week after Exotic filed court documents in which he rejected his pardon lawsuit after learning that the president had received his request.
The 57-year-old star of the Netflix series Tiger King sued the US Department of Justice last week for rejecting his official request for forgiveness, claiming it was not valid because his petition was not presented directly to Trump.
The so-called Tiger King, real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage, withdrew his complaint after learning Trump had received his petition, according to an article by TMZ.
Interesting timing: It comes just a week after Exotic filed court documents in which he dismissed his pardon lawsuit after learning that his request had been received by the president
Advocates for Maldonado Passage, in their six-page complaint, accused acting attorney Rosalind Sargent-Burns of failing to pass on the formal request, claiming she should have done so.
Donald Trump Jr. (42) was also identified as a supporter in the complaint.
‘A lot of people came forward and publicly expressed their views with Joe Exotic’s conviction and subsequent sentence. These include members of the president’s own family. According to the New York Post, Donald Trump Junior is a ‘proponent of pardoning Joe Exotic’.
Maldonado Passage is serving 22 years in prison for conspiracy to kill big cat rights activist Carole Baskin, 59.
Request Received: US President Donald Trump, who was shown in the White House in November, received the request for forgiveness from Joseph Maldonado-Passage, or the Tiger King
He was also convicted in 2019 of eight counts of violating the Lacey Act for falsifying wildlife records, and nine counts of violating the Endangered Species Act.
Maldonado Passage has asked reality star Kim Kardashian, 40, for help reaching out to Trump.
In September, he wrote a letter to the president pleading for his early release from prison, while his representatives spent about $ 10,000 in Trump’s Washington hotel in an effort to help his cause.
Netflix star: The Netflix documentary Tiger King aired in March amid the coronavirus pandemic and becomes one of the most watched shows on the streaming service
Earlier this year, Trump said he would consider issuing a pardon for Maldonado Passage after his son, Donald Trump Jr., brought the case to him.
“I’ll watch,” he told reporters in April.
Trump on Tuesday issued a series of pardons and commutations in aid of former members of Congress convicted of corruption charges, two people charged in the Russian investigation that overshadowed his presidency and four former government contractors convicted in a massacre in 2007 in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqis behind. civilian death.
Supporters of the former contractors at Blackwater Worldwide advocated for the pardon, arguing that the men were excessively punished in an investigation and prosecution that they said was infected. All four served long prison sentences.
The Blackwater firm was founded by Erik Prince, an ally of Trump and the brother of Education Minister Betsy DeVos. It has since been renamed.
Last days: Trump, who was shown in the White House earlier this month, on Tuesday issued a series of pardons and commutations in favor of former members of Congress convicted of corruption charges, two people charged in the Russian investigation into his presidency in the shadows and four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that killed more than a dozen Iraqi civilians