Former President Donald Trump reportedly agreed to grant additional commutations for prison sentences Kim Kardashian was working on in exchange for White House visits from football stars familiar with the reality TV star, but the football players declined.
The exchange is recounted in Jonathan Karl’s forthcoming book Tired of Winning, according to Axios.
In 2018, then-President Trump granted clemency to Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old woman who was serving time for a nonviolent drug offense, after meeting with Kardashian at the White House, where she advocated her freedom.
During his final days at the White House, Kardashian asked Trump to fulfill more clemency requests for those serving time.
“A source familiar with the conversations tells me Trump listened to her requests and demanded a straight-up quid pro quo. He would grant the commutations, he told Kardashian, if she leveraged her celebrity connections to get football stars who were friends of hers to come visit him at the White House,” Karl wrote, according to Axios, adding she tried to meet his demands, but every football player she approached declined.
After the 2020 election, Trump changed his tune, according to Karl’s book. Kardashian called the former president’s Mar-a-Lago team to ask for a criminal justice-centered favor, to which Trump said, “‘Hell no. You voted for Biden and now you come asking me for a favor?'” Karl said after a few minutes, Trump hung up on her.
While Kardashian has never publicly stated she voted for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, the reality star tweeted a photo of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris a few days after Election Day.
“Disgraceful and talentless John Carl is a back-bencher who could never get his own show for obvious reasons,” a Trump spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. “Excerpts previously released from this ‘book’ have already been thoroughly debunked. This filth either belongs in the discount bargain bin in the fiction section of the bookstore or should be repurposed as toilet paper.”
The A-list celebrity passed the baby bar exam on her fourth attempt in 2022 but still would need to take the California bar as she pursues a path to becoming a lawyer.
