‘Tiger King’ Star Joe Exotic Says He Was ‘Too Gay’ For Trump Pardon: ‘His Corrupt Friends All Come First’

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Tiger King star Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, is speaking out after failing to receive a pardon from Donald Trump before the former president left office.

Exotic, who is serving a 22-year sentence for violating federal wildlife laws and a failed murder-for-hire plot against nemesis Carole Baskin, released a statement on Wednesday, hours after he expected to be granted clemency.

The 57-year-old took aim at the former president in a scathing tweet on Wednesday, writing, “I was too innocent and too GAY to deserve a Pardon from Trump.”

“I only mattered to Don Jr. when he needed to make a comment about me to boost his social media post,” the convicted felon,

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