Joe Exotic legal team to heads to Washington DC amid pardon hopes

Joe Exotic's legal team has meeting and plan in place as they make the final push to get the Tiger King star pardoned by President Donald Trump before he leaves office. Tiger King: Joe Exotic's legal team has meeting and plan in place as they make the final push to get the Tiger King star pardoned by President Donald Trump before he leaves office according to TMZ, as he is seen in August 2013 On the way out: The publication claims that Love knows how to stroke the 45th US president's ego as on that day the House of Representatives will vote to ratify Joe Biden as the next president while Trump, 74, is planning a rally According to their insiders, there is buzz that the commander-in-chief may pardon several people on January 6 to serve as a distraction so the vote does not get the normal attention. The 57-year-old star of the Netflix series Tiger King last week sued the US Justice Department for rejecting his official pardon request claiming it wasn't valid because his petition wasn't presented directly to Trump. Request received: US President Donald Trump, shown in November at the White House, has received the request for a pardon from Joseph Maldonado-Passage aka the Tiger King He also was convicted in 2019 of eight counts of violating the Lacey Act for falsifying wildlife records, and nine counts of violating the Endangered Species Act.