Tiger King’s Carole Baskin slams Joe Exotic’s pardon bid as a ‘feeble attempt to deflect attention’
TIGER King's Carole Baskin has slammed Joe Exotic's pardon bid as a "feeble attempt to deflect attention."
Outgoing President is reportedly planning to issue more than 100 pardons on Tuesday, with confident he , according to his legal team.
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Exotic, 57, was convicted of hiring a hit-man to take out his rival, fellow big cat enthusiast , and of , and given 22 years in prison.
Hearing of the news of Exotic potentially walking free, Baskin said there would be "no benefit."
Baskin told The Sun: "There is no benefit, other than a feeble attempt to deflect attention, for anyone to pardon someone who walked up to five tigers and shot them in the head in order to clear cage space for the circus, who was going to pay him to board their tigers during the off season.
"Tigers are the world's favorite animal and Joe Schreibvogel Maldonado Passage is right where he belongs."
New evidence, including telephone recordings, has reportedly made its way to in an effort to .
Jim Rathmann, a former US Secret Service Agent turned private investigator, said that the legal team has been given recorded phone calls that call into question the testimony given by certain witnesses in Exotic's trial.
"You find your evidence and you let the evidence take you wherever the case is going to take you," . "And in this particular case, [it] keeps bringing me down the path that this murder-for-hire never happened."
Rathmann said that the information Exotic's team recently got their hands on may have kept the reality TV star out of prison initially.
"I would have loved this information to have been out two years ago before his trial so he never would have been convicted overall," he said.
"But since that isn't what happened, it's better late than never."
Last week, Team Tiger flew to , for a “high level” meeting with White House aides for a
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Love revealed he has his cell phone on 24/7 and is "excited" to get the call confirming their hopes of Exotic's release.
He claimed the President's son, , and , are both sympathetic of Exotic's case, expressing their concerns to the president.
Love, who went to Washington in a private jet dubbed The Joe Exotic Express and Exotic One, insists Trump has been directly made aware of the pardon request.