Joe Exotic’s legal team has a meeting and plan as they take the final step to get the Tiger King star pardoned by President Donald Trump before leaving office.
The group – led by Eric Love – will fly to Washington DC next Wednesday, Jan. 6 for a high-level meeting on their pardon petition, according to TMZ on Thursday.
The publication claims Love knows how to caress the ego of the 45th US president because on that day the House of Representatives will vote to ratify Joe Biden as the next president, while Trump, 74, is planning a meeting.
Tiger King: Joe Exotic’s legal team has deliberations and plans to take the final step to get the Tiger King star pardoned from President Donald Trump before leaving office, according to TMZ, as seen in August 2013
On the way out: The publication claims Love knows how to caress the ego of the 45th US president, because on that day the House of Representatives will vote to ratify Joe Biden as the next president, while Trump, 74, will hold a meeting plant
According to their insiders, there are rumors that on January 6, the commander-in-chief may pardon several people to serve as a distraction so that the vote does not receive normal attention.
This comes just a week after Exotic filed court documents in which he closed his pardon lawsuit after hearing that his request had been received by the president.
The 57-year-old Netflix series star Tiger King last week sued the United States Department of Justice for rejecting his official clemency request, claiming it was invalid because his petition was not submitted directly to Trump.
The so-called Tiger King, real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage, withdrew his complaint after learning that Trump had received his petition, according to an article by TMZ.
Interesting timing: This comes just a week after Exotic filed court documents closing his pardon lawsuit after learning that his request had been received by the president
Lawyers for Maldonado-Passage, in their six-page complaint, had accused acting pardon attorney Rosalind Sargent-Burns of not forwarding the formal request, while claiming she should.
The complaint also cited Donald Trump Jr., 42, as a supporter.
Many people have come out and publicly expressed their disagreement with Joe Exotic’s conviction and subsequent sentence. They include members of the president’s own family. Donald Trump Junior has been a supporter of Joe Exotic’s pardon, ” the complaint said, according to the New York Post.
Maldonado-Passage is serving a 22-year sentence for plotting the murder of big cat rights activist Carole Baskin, 59.
Request received: US President Donald Trump, who was seen in the White House in November, has received the request for pardon from Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka the Tiger King
He was also convicted in 2019 of violating the Lacey Act eight times for falsifying wildlife records, and nine times for violating the Endangered Species Act.
Maldonado-Passage has reached out to reality star Kim Kardashian, 40, for help in reaching out to Trump.
In September, he wrote to the president calling for an early release from prison while his representatives spent about $ 10,000 at Trump’s Washington, DC hotel to help his cause.
Netflix star: The Netflix documentary Tiger King aired in March during the coronavirus pandemic and became one of the most watched shows on the streaming service
Earlier this year, Trump said he would consider pardoning Maldonado-Passage after his son Donald Trump Jr. had referred the matter to him.
“I’ll have a look,” he told reporters in April.
Trump on Tuesday granted a slew of pardon payments and commutations in favor of former members of Congress convicted of corruption charges, two people indicted in the Russia investigation that overshadowed his presidency, and four former government contractors convicted in a massacre in Baghdad in 2007, leaving more than a dozen Iraqis behind. civilians dead.
Supporters of the former Blackwater Worldwide contractors had lobbied for the pardon, arguing that the men had been excessively punished in an investigation and prosecution they said were contaminated. All four served long prison terms.
The Blackwater firm was founded by Erik Prince, an ally of Trump and the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. It has since been renamed.
Last days: Trump, who was seen in the White House earlier this month, on Tuesday issued a slew of pardon payments and commutations in favor of former members of Congress convicted of corruption allegations, two people charged in Russia investigation that overshadowed his presidency and four former government contractors were convicted. in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that killed more than a dozen Iraqi civilians