Tiger King star Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, is speaking out after failing to receive a pardon from Donald Trump before the former president left office.
Exotic, who is serving a 22-year sentence for violating federal wildlife laws and a failed murder-for-hire plot against nemesis Carole Baskin, released a statement on Wednesday, hours after he expected to be granted clemency.
The 57-year-old took aim at the former president in a scathing tweet on Wednesday, writing, “I was too innocent and too GAY to deserve a Pardon from Trump.” “I only mattered to Don Jr.
when he needed to make a comment about me to boost his social media post,” the convicted felon, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, continued, referencing a