Over the previous few years, Kim Kardashian has been utilizing her platform for extra than simply actuality TV and promoting garments. Following within the footsteps of her late father Robert Kardashian, Kim went to legislation college and has been advocating for legal justice reform. She famously teamed up with President Donald Trump in 2018 — apparently taking the president’s name within the nude — to get Alice Marie Johnson’s sentence commuted, however excerpts from the brand new e-book Uninterested in Profitable: Donald Trump and the Finish of the Grand Previous Celebration by Jonathan Karl inform one other story of their partnership, during which Trump allegedly held on The Kardashians star.
Kim Kardashian wasn’t afraid to go straight to the highest in her efforts to get a pardon for Alice Marie Johnson — a first-time nonviolent offender who had been sentenced to life in jail. President Trump commuted her sentence in 2018, and Kardashian continued to name him about different circumstances. Nonetheless, after the 2020 election, it appears her good graces with Trump ran out, as — in accordance with an excerpt from Uninterested in Profitable launched by Axios — the previous president believed the fact star had voted for Joe Biden. Recalling a 2021 cellphone name between the 2, Jonathan Karl writes:
Hell no, the previous president advised her. He would not do it. ‘You voted for Biden and now you come asking me for a favor?’ Trump advised her. Kardashian has by no means publicly stated who she voted for in 2020, however after Biden was projected the winner, she posted a tweet of Biden and Vice President–elect Kamala Harris together with three blue hearts. … After a couple of extra alternative phrases, the road went useless. Trump had hung up on her.
I’d think about it will possibly’t be an excellent feeling to get hung up on by the previous president of the US, particularly when her work was so necessary to the folks she was attempting to assist. No matter her political leanings, Kim Kardashian doesn’t appear to affiliate her work with one social gathering or the opposite, saying in 2019 that “the those who I’ve met behind bars, I assure you, they don’t care who indicators that clemency paper.”
The truth is Kim Kardashian had continued to go to the White Home after Alice Marie Johnson was freed in 2018, engaged on different clemency circumstances and to advocate for legal justice reform. Nonetheless, even earlier than her relationship with Donald Trump was tarnished by the election, Jonathan Karl writes that in his ultimate weeks in workplace, the president allegedly began asking the fact TV star for favors in change for the commutations. One other excerpt from Uninterested in Profitable reads:
A supply accustomed to the conversations tells me Trump listened to her requests and demanded a straight-up quid professional quo. He would grant the commutations, he advised Kardashian, if she leveraged her movie star connections to get soccer stars who have been buddies of hers to return go to him on the White Home.
The writer writes that Kim Kardashian tried to accommodate the president’s request however was unable to observe by way of in his ultimate weeks in workplace.
Uninterested in Profitable by Jonathan Karl is a have a look at trendy politics, Donald Trump and the Republican Celebration, and is obtainable to buy now. Kim Kardashian might not have the White Home on pace dial like earlier than, however she continues to get tons of letters from inmates, and her jail reform work can generally be seen on The Kardashians, with new episodes out there to stream on Thursdays with a Hulu subscription.
