
Joe Exotic has issued a fresh plea from his Texas prison cell, warning that if he dies behind bars it will 'haunt' Donald Trump and the Republican Party, as the Tiger King star pushes once again for clemency using a glowing letter of support from one of his own correctional officers.
The 62-year-old former zoo owner, real name Joseph Maldonado, is serving a 21-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth after being convicted twice in a murder-for-hire plot targeting his long‑time rival zookeeper Carole Baskin.