Joe Exotic Begs Matt Gaetz: Get Trump To Pardon Me
First, some background via the Daily Beast:
In April 2022, Pensacola-based attorney Autumn Beck Blackledge approached then-Rep. Matt Gaetz with a “very, very important question” from one of her clients, Tiger King star Joe Exotic, who in 2019 was convicted of 17 counts of animal abuse and attempted murder for hire.
“If you do decide to run for president, would you please consider him as one of your running mates?” Blackledge said. “I would pardon him,” Gaetz said, as Blackledge laughed and high-fived him. “That is the extent of the commitment I can make.”
Now, more than two years later, Gaetz—who has been investigated for paying for sex, trafficking teenage girls, and abusing illegal drugs, all of which he denies—is President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, the nation’s top
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