Kim Kardashian Says She Put Aside Her Personal Feelings To Work With Trump On Prison Reform

Reputation be damned, she had lives to change.

onSeptember 17, 2019 at 12:12 PMSeptember 17, 2019 at 11:01 AM

Kim Kardashian West (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

I definitely was aware [that I could face backlash]. But for me any of my issues have always been more about the people and not about the politics. And so for me to think that I couldn’t go and speak to the man that has the power to change people’s lives because of some opinions I may have of certain policies and issues, to me felt very self-centered. That I was more worried about my reputation than saving someone’s life. And so I put that all out the door, and I thought, you know what? I’m going to choose [Alice Marie Johnson] over my reputation.

I felt like I had an open opportunity to do that, and from the president going from being really harsh on his stance on prison reform to changing and actually signing the First Step Act and getting that bill passed, was amazing.

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From Pilot and Above The Law

— Kim Kardashian West, speaking about the prison reform ideas she pitched to President Donald Trump that led to the passage of the First Step Act, during an episode of The View.

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