Maybe predictably, Joe Unique (full identify Joseph Maldonado-Passage) is now peeved that Donald Trump issued a pardon for Todd and Julie Chrisley. The Tiger King: Homicide, Mayhem and Insanity star reacted to the information with a prolonged screed shared on his X (previously Twitter) account.
In an announcement shared on the social media website, he wrote, “I’ve by no means been extra disenchanted in my life that President Trump is pardoning all of those those that have really dedicated crimes and but the President leaves me in right here as an harmless man even in spite of everything the federal government witnesses admitted to perjury on world tv in Season 2 of Tiger King. The federal government’s ‘so-called’ hitman even took the producers of Tiger King and my lawyer John Phillips to the zoo and confirmed them the place he hid a homicide weapon within the woods and informed him how they deliberate to kill me if placing me in jail didn’t work to steal my zoo.”
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— Joe Unique (@joe_exotic) Could 28, 2025
Joe Unique was convicted in federal courtroom in 2018 for a murder-for-hire scheme, amongst different fees, after being accused of hiring a person named Allen Glover to journey to Florida and homicide Carole Baskin, an enormous cat fanatic who’d been overtly important of Joe Unique’s tiger park. He was sentenced to 22 years for the crime in 2020 and was re-sentenced to 21 years in jail in 2022. (He’d requested leniency after being recognized with prostate most cancers.)
The previous zoo owner-turned-reality star has been very vocal about his want for a pardon from Trump over the previous couple of years. In 2021, on the finish of Trump’s first time period, his legal professionals reportedly anticipated him to be amongst Trump’s pardonees on his method out of the Oval Workplace and even booked a stretch limousine to await his exit from the jail. Although Trump stated in 2020 he’d contemplate the case, that pardon didn’t come. Joe Unique’s pleas for a pardon have continued in Trump’s second time period.
His social media response to the Chrisleys’ pardons continued with prolonged messages about why he ought to’ve acquired an identical presidential pardon, denying the allegations for which he was convicted.
“Donald J. Trump please restore freedom for Joe Unique so he can return to doing good on this planet,” the message learn. “Joe Unique didn’t harm anybody. Joe Unique didn’t pay anybody. Joe Unique had no plans to harm anybody. Joe Unique has suffered seven years behind bars being remoted, abused, and handled in methods no American ought to ever endure. Joe Unique has no prior felony report and isn’t a hazard to society.”
He went on to name the felony case that was efficiently lodged towards him a case of “entrapment” utilizing informants who have been “felons and fraudsters” and claimed that his well being was struggling in jail: “He’s battling superior most cancers and it’s important he receives higher vitamin and medical care,” the social media message stated.
Donald J. Trump please restore freedom for Joe Unique so he can return to doing good on this planet.
Joe Unique didn’t harm anybody.
Joe Unique didn’t pay anybody.
Joe Unique had no plans to harm anybody.
Joe Unique has suffered seven years behind bars being remoted, abused, and…— Joe Unique (@joe_exotic) Could 27, 2025
Trump’s determination to pardon Todd and Julie Chrisley, who have been identified for his or her actuality collection Chrisley Is aware of Greatest, got here down on Tuesday (Could 27). The 2 had been serving separate sentences after being convicted of conspiring to defraud banks and tax evasion.
Others who’ve been pardoned by Trump prior to now embrace these convicted of attacking the U.S. Capitol on January 6, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich who’d been convicted of corruption fees, and a Virginia sheriff who’d been convicted of accepting bribes.