Joe Exotic still believes President Donald Trump will pardon him as one of his last acts in office. Eric Love, representing the Tiger King star, said Exotic’s lawyers have contacted officials in Washington DC, asking for a presidential pardon.
And Love is so confident that he has even reserved a Dodge Ram limo for Exotic to ride home from prison. The reality TV star, real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage, came to fame in the hit Netflix series Tiger King this year.
But in January a court sentenced him to 22 years in prison over his plot to kill his rival Carol Baskin and for killing five tigers in his zoo.
Earlier this year he sent a handwritten letter to Trump appealing for clemency. In it, he tells the president he wants to go home to his