Tiger King Joe Exotic pleads for Trump pardon after husband deported

Joe Exotic – famous person of the 2020 Netflix true crime documentary Tiger King – is publicly pleading for Donald Trump to pardon him from federal jail after his husband was once deported to Mexico.

“It’s really past time to have one of your people watch Tiger King Season 2, where they all admitted to perjury and a plot to kill me on world television and let me out,” Exotic, whose title is Joseph Allen Maldonado, wrote overdue on Sunday on social media to the president whom he has politically supported. “I know that you are not fond of my lifestyle, but I supported you just allow me go to Mexico with my husband.”

Exotic’s husband, Jorge Marquez Flores, have been jailed in Texas over immigration problems. He was once launched on Friday – however then deported to Mexico.

Referring to individuals of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Exotic’s put up to Trump stated, “The Ice agents didn’t understand why he got sent back so fast. He had a hearing scheduled for tomorrow.”

Exotic’s put up recommended Trump, “Just let me go to Mexico and you can keep Carole Baskin,” with whom Exotic feuded at the Netflix display that vaulted him to reputation.

Exotic, 62, is recently serving a 21-year jail sentence in Oklahoma after being convicted in a murder-for-hire plot towards Baskin, an activist and massive cat rescuer. He was once sentenced in January 2020.

He had to start with been given 22 years, however the punishment was once decreased in 2022 through a 12 months according to his pleas for leniency as he started early-stage prostate most cancers remedy. The most cancers reportedly went in remission in July 2022 however had come again previous this 12 months.

Exotic wed Marquez, 33, in October after the pair met in jail. It was once Exotic’s 5th marriage.

He had posted previous this 12 months on social media that his husband would self-deport and he would pass to Mexico if Trump fulfilled Exotic’s pleas for a pardon.

When requested in April 2020 all over his first presidency whether or not he would pardon Exotic, Trump answered: “I’ll take a look.”