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‘Tiger King’ star Joe Exotic wants President Biden to pardon him so he can get ‘proper medical care’ for prostate cancer

Patriot-News - 5/17/2021

“Tiger King” star Joe Exotic (Joseph Maldonado-Passage) wants President Joe Biden to grant him clemency so he can receive “proper medical care” for prostate cancer.

Maldonado-Passage shared his diagnosis with his Twitter followers on Friday. He once again asked for pardon. This time he asked President Biden after his legal team failed to get him one from President Donald Trump after a few attempts in 2020.

“John Phillips has received my medical records from FMC Fort Worth and my PSA count came back very high for prostate cancer,” he tweeted in a thread. “The prison has approved testing to verify what stage it is in. My body is tired, I have lost a tremendous amount of weight, the mouth sores...are out of control, I throw up more than I eat.”

Maldonado-Passage is currently serving a 22-year sentence for plotting to kill Carole Baskin, a longtime rival. He also received 17 charges of animal abuse. Joe Exotic and Baskin’s saga was documented in the popular Netflix miniseries “Tiger King,” which was released in March 2020 at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.

Back in January, Maldonado-Passage told Insider his plea for a pardon was rejected because he was “too innocent and too GAY.”

Though, he tweeted he’s not looking for “pity.” He wants the world to help him convince President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to grant him that pardon.

He tweeted: I don’t want anyone’s pity, what I need is when John Phillips gets the evidence he is working on, I need the world to help him get President Biden, VP Harris and the Attorney General to listen to the evidence and see that...it’s not just city cops out of control with corruption, but his very own Department of Justice and make this right and sign that pardon that Trump left behind so I can go home and get proper medical care and proper food. Thank you for all the love and support.”

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