Joe Exotic, the star of Netflix’s “Tiger King,” recently adjusted his plans to run for president in 2024 and he has a message for Donald Trump:
Joe Exotic: “Karma’s a bitch, ain’t it?”
Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, filed earlier this year to run for president all while serving a 21-year sentence for a murder-for-hire plot in an Atlanta federal prison.
The “Tiger King” star previously tried and failed to get a presidential pardon from Trump, and he appears to have held a grudge for being omitted from the pardon list ever since.
During a phone interview from Atlanta Penitentiary with Fox News’ Lawrence Jones, Exotic blamed the Trump Administration for putting him behind bars.
“His administration is the one who screwed me over and put me in here for an agenda to stop you from owning a tiger and petting a baby tiger,” he said. “All I got to say to him is, ‘Karma’s a bitch, ain’t it?'”
The controversy sparked around the hush money payment that Cohen admitted that he made to Stormy Daniels during the fall of Trump’s 2016 White House bid to keep her from coming forward about an alleged affair she had with the then-candidate. Trump has denied the affair. Previously, TMZ reported that Daniels was experiencing the impact of Trump’s potential impending arrest and reportedly strengthening her security after receiving multiple threats.
Exotic also suggested there was no fault with Trump’s indictment concerning a hush-money payment made to a porn star when asked if he believed the charges were “fair.”
“If the man broke the law, he needs to pay the price,” Exotic said. “No different than President Biden or Hunter Biden or Obama or anybody else.”
Shortly after Trump was indicted, Exotic welcomed the former president to the “party.”
In his closing statement during the interview, Exotic encouraged people to visit his campaign website to learn more about his platform, but he was cut off as viewers were inadvertently reminded where he was calling from.
“This call is from a federal prison,” an automated voice recording can be heard saying.
