I was too innocent and too GAY to deserve a Pardon from Trump. I only mattered to Don Jr. when he needed to make a comment about me to boost his social media post. Boy were we all stupid to believe he actually stood for Equal Justice? His corrupt friends all come first. pic.twitter.com/ysGfwnqlHi
— Joe Exotic (@joe_exotic) January 20, 2021
(Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic the Tiger King, commenting on former President Donald Trump’s stream of pardons en masse before he left office. Exotic and his lawyer alike thought he would surely be pardoned — he even had a stretch limo awaiting him — but it was not meant to be.)

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