‘Tiger King’ Star Joe Exotic Complains He Was ‘Too Innocent and Too Gay’ for Trump to Pardon Him
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“Tiger King” star Joe Exotic lashed out at Donald Trump over the outgoing president’s decision not to pardon him. The Netflix star, who is currently serving a 22-year sentence for conspiring to murder his rival, had hired a stretch pickup truck limousine to ferry him away from the Fort Worth prison where he is being held in anticipation of a presidential pardon. Trump said in April that he would “look into” a pardon for Maldonado-Passage but never committed. Exotic, whose legal name is Joe Maldonado-Passage, had reason to speculate, however: Trump issued 143 pardons on his final full day in office. A statement on Maldonado-Passage's Twitter account read, “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. Boy were we all stupid to believe he actually stood for Equal Justice? His corrupt friends all come first.”