Joe Exotic’s legal team has meetings and plans in place, as they make the final push to get Tiger King star’s pardon from President Donald Trump before he leaves office.
The group – led by Eric Love – is due to fly to Washington DC on Wednesday, January 6, for a “high-level” meeting on their apology, according to TMZ on Thursday.
The publication claims that Love knows how to hit the ego of the 45th American president, as on that day the House of Representatives will vote for the ratification of Joe Biden as the next president, while Trump, in his old age 74-year-old plans a rally.
Tiger King: Joe Exotic’s legal team has meetings and plans in place, as they make the final push to get Tiger King star’s pardon from 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 hit the ego of the 45th American president, because on that day, the House of Representatives will vote for the ratification of Joe Biden as the next president, in while Trump, 74, is planning a rally
According to those inside them, there is a rumor that the commander-in-chief could forgive more people on January 6 to serve as a distraction, so that the vote does not receive normal attention.
This comes just one week after Exotic filed court documents rejecting the pardon process, after learning that his request had been received by the president.
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 pardons, claiming that it is 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 that Trump had received his petition, according to a TMZ article.
Interesting moment: this comes just one week after Exotic filed documents in court rejecting the pardon process after learning that his request had been received by the president
Lawyers for Maldonado-Passage, in their six-page complaint, accused the interim lawyer, Pardon Rosalind Sargent-Burns, of not submitting the formal request, while claiming that she was obliged to do so.
The complaint also named Donald Trump Jr., 42, as a supporter.
“Many people came out and publicly expressed their disagreement with Joe Exotic’s conviction and subsequent sentence. Among them are members of the president’s own family. Donald Trump Junior was a lawyer for Joe Exotic to be pardoned ‘, it is shown in the complaint, according to the New York Post.
Maldonado-Passage is serving a 22-year prison sentence for plotting to kill 59-year-old big cat rights activist Carole Baskin.
Request received: US President Donald Trump, presented at the White House in November, received a request for pardon from Joseph Maldonado-Passage, alias 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 contacted reality star Kim Kardashian, 40, for help reaching Trump.
In September, he wrote a letter to the president pleading for his early release from prison, while his representatives spent about $ 10,000 at the Trump Hotel in Washington, DC, in an attempt to help his cause.
Netflix Star: Netflix documentary Tiger King aired in March amid the coronavirus pandemic and became 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 his case.
“I’ll take a look,” he told reporters in April.
Trump issued a series of pardons and commissions on Tuesday, benefiting from former members of Congress convicted of corruption, two people accused in the Russian investigation that overshadowed his presidency and four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad. , which left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead.
Supporters of former Blackwater Worldwide contractors lobbied for pardons, claiming that the men had been excessively punished in an investigation and prosecution that they said had been affected. All four were serving long prison sentences.
The Blackwater company was founded by Erik Prince, an ally of Trump and the brother of the secretary of education, Betsy DeVos. He has since been renamed.
Last days: Trump, shown at the White House earlier this month, issued a series of pardons and commissions on Tuesday to benefit former members of Congress convicted of corruption, two people accused in the Russian investigation that overshadowed his presidency and four former contractors convicted in 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead