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Michael Sainato

‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic pleads for Trump pardon after husband deported

a man in sequin shirt poses with a tiger
Joe Exotic – Joseph Allen Maldonaldo – poses with a tiger in the Netflix true crime documentary Tiger King. Photograph: Netflix/Kobal/Shutterstock

Joe Exotic – star of the 2020 Netflix true crime documentary Tiger King – is publicly pleading for Donald Trump to pardon him from federal prison after his husband was 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 name is Joseph Allen Maldonado, wrote late 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.”

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