“I’m happy that she got the mercy that she deserved, but to provide cover for this racist administration…is appalling and unconscionable,” says political expert Reecie Colbert.
As President Donald Trump announced his pardons for Todd and Julie Chrisley during an Oval Office call on Tuesday, his newly minted “pardon czar,” Alice Johnson, stood proudly beside him.
Trump famously pardoned Johnson in 2018 after she served more than 20 years of her life sentence in prison for a 1996 drug trafficking conviction. The Mississippi grandmother became the face of President Trump’s First Step Act, a bipartisan law that made several reforms to the criminal justice system, including lowering criminal penalties for nonviolent crimes.
“They were given pretty harsh treatment from what I’m hearing,” Trump told the Chrisleys’ daughter and son, Savannah and Grayson, during his Oval Office phone call.
Todd and Julie Chrisley were convicted in 2022 for financial fraud and tax evasion. Johnson, wearing all red as she flanked the president, was credited by Trump for making the pardons for the Chrisleys possible.
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