Joe Exotic says he’s counting on Donald Trump to pardon him – 'I just need the man to listen'
Donald Trump has vowed to pardon nonviolent January 6 protesters within mere minutes of his inauguration. But there’s another person who’s hoping to cash in on the president’s generosity – Joseph Maldonado-Passage, better known as Joe Exotic, the Tiger King.
“Tiger King” is a Netflix true crime docuseries that dropped in March 2020 just as COVID quarantining was ramping up. The show’s millions of viewers were fascinated by the series’ insider scoop into the strange underworld of illegal big cat breeding, but they were utterly enchanted by the Tiger King himself — an eccentric-dressing, gay, polygamist zookeeper, who, by the show’s end, was behind bars for 17 counts of animal abuse and two counts of murder for hire.
Exotic, who’s barely made a dent in his 21-year prison sentence, is hopeful that President Trump will have mercy on him.
Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein” recently spoke with Exotic on the phone about his prayers for an early release.
“Between you and John Clay Wolfe and Joe Rogan's out there rooting for me now and Matt Gaetz ... I've got the voices. I just need the man to listen,” Exotic tells Stein.
Alex says he can’t understand “why it’s such a big issue,” considering Exotic was “a cultural phenomenon” and “nobody got hurt.”
“There's just so many people that are rapists, child molesters, murderers that get less jail time than you, Joe, and it just shows you that our political system and our, you know, criminal justice system is totally corrupt,” he says.
Exotic says he’s banking on Trump having empathy, granted he’s been a repeat victim of our corrupt justice system.
“I need his help,” Exotic admits.
“The crazy part is the government so-called hitman that they set me up with admitted on world television on ‘Tiger King 2’ that he lied, and he made it all up. And then he went one step further, Alex, and ... he took the lawyers and the film people to the zoo and showed them where he hid a murder weapon, where they were actually gonna kill me first,” he laments. “I don't understand why I'm here. It doesn't make sense.”
Alex says he intends to reach out to Lara Trump and Donald Trump Jr. on behalf of Exotic.
“If he does a pardon of 3,000 people for January 6, he needs to throw you in there, too,” he says.
To hear the full conversation, watch the clip above.
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Joe Exotic tells ALL from PRISON: Netflix EXPLOITED feud with Carole Baskin; the two never even met
Alex Stein was lucky enough to score an interview with the wild Joe Exotic from jail — and it did not disappoint.
But this isn’t his first interview, as Exotic has been seriously making the rounds. Through doing so, he has learned a bit about his old arch nemesis Carole Baskin.
“I did one with the news station out of Tampa, and they interviewed Carole right before they interviewed me, and she is now even saying on television that Netflix exploited the feud that we had going on,” Exotic tells Stein.
According to Exotic, Baskin told the news station that the two “had never met” and the “feud wasn’t as bad as Netflix portrayed it to be.”
Exotic went on to tell Stein that there was a double agent named Ashley working at his park who had gone undercover for Carole.
“She was the one that was testifying on Carole for Carole at my trial, but they wouldn’t let her because they caught her lying, so she never got to testify. But yeah, she’s Carole’s informant,” Exotic says.
When Stein was setting up the interview, he had an exchange with Howard Baskin. Baskin told Stein “there are no hard feelings” between him an Exotic, but he still thinks “he’s a liar.”
“It would be really nice if just one person in the interview media profession actually challenged Joe on all his lies instead of just letting him blather on with nodding heads,” Howard wrote.
“I don’t know what Howard wants me to admit to. I’ve admitted to shooting the Tigers; I don’t know what else to admit to. But I didn’t pay Allen to go kill Carole,” Exotic says.
“Well, and I appreciate that,” Stein says. “That’s why I have your back.”
Exotic has a message for his old friends.
“What I need them to realize though, is in order to move on, they got to remember that I’m a human being, and my parents died, and I’m no longer going to own animals, and it needs to be over. But it doesn’t need to be over that they can move on with their free life, and Joseph finishes a 21-year prison sentence for something he didn’t do,” he tells Stein.
“I think that’s fair,” Stein says.
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