{"id":2006,"date":"2020-04-09T11:08:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2020-04-09T11:08:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:08:24","slug":"someone-asked-trump-about-a-joe-exotic-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2020\/04\/09\/someone-asked-trump-about-a-joe-exotic-pardon\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone asked Trump about a Joe Exotic pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Donald Trump held another coronavirus briefing on Wednesday and during the question and answer session one reporter asked the president about the popular Tiger King documentary on Netflix and a pardon for Joe &#8220;Exotic&#8221; <span id=\":1yad.co\" class=\"tL8wMe EMoHub\" dir=\"ltr\">Maldonado-Passage<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll take a look,\u201d Trump told New York Post reporter Steven Nelson when asked about the case and his son\u2019s support for a pardon during a White House briefing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PD IF\">\n<div id=\":1ya9.co\" class=\"JL\">\n<div id=\":1yad.ma\" class=\"Mu SP\" title=\"April 8, 2020 at 7:05:14 PM UTC-4\"><span id=\":1yad.co\" class=\"tL8wMe EMoHub\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhich son? Must be Don \u2014 what did he do?\u201d Trump said of Donald Trump Jr., and then asked about Maldonado-Passage.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevennelson10?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@stevennelson10<\/a> asks President Trump about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TigerKing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TigerKing<\/a>: &#8220;I was wondering if you&#8217;ve seen the show and have any thoughts&#8230;&#8221;<br \/><br \/>President Trump: &#8220;Would you recommend a pardon?&#8221; <br \/><br \/>Jim <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acosta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Acosta<\/a>: &#8220;I&#8217;m not weighing in on Tiger King.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>Full video here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z42TJyteNI\">https:\/\/t.co\/z42TJyteNI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oq2otCp97X\">pic.twitter.com\/oq2otCp97X<\/a><\/p>\n\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1248014497974976512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI know nothing about it \u2026 he has 22 for what? What did he do?\u201d Trump asked.<\/p>\n<p>Once explained what <span id=\":1yad.co\" class=\"tL8wMe EMoHub\" dir=\"ltr\">Maldonado-Passage was in for, Trump asked if the reporter thought he did it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you on his side? Are you recommending a pardon?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then asked CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta for his thought, \u201cWould you recommend a pardon?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not weighing in on Tiger King,&#8221; replied Acosta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-2006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2009,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/2009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}