June 27, 2025 10:42 AM UTC

Boebert Pleads "Tiger King's" Pardon Case To Fellow Celebrity Donald Trump

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• by: Colorado Pols

From the blurry border between politics and show business where both President Donald Trump and Colorado’s cantankerous carpetbagger Rep. Lauren Boebert do the voodoo that they do, Newsweek reports that Boebert is serving as an intercessor with the Dear Leader in the case of reality TV star Joe Maldonado, immortalized by the 2020 Netflix miniseries Tiger King:

Exotic has curried favor with President Donald Trump in his repeated attempts to serve less time behind bars, including offering his services to help Trump defeat Kamala Harris in last year’s election. He even advocated for a Cabinet position in a Trump-led White House…

“Joe Exotic has reached out to me, or at least his team has, in the past and other members of Congress for sure,” Boebert told Alex Stein of Prime Time with Stein.

She referred to Exotic as a “fantastic unifier” during the pandemic, as people were glued to their screens watching his story unfold. She said she watched episodes while sitting on her coffee table due to the intrigue.

“I enjoyed the heartened sentiment of Joe, and since he’s been in prison his outreach and even wanting to run against President Trump while in prison is certainly a part of the American grit and spirit,” she added. “But we’ll see what the pardon team says, and I’ll keep putting in words for him.”

To briefly recap in case you’re one of the few Americans who wasn’t glued to Netflix in 2020 watching Tiger King, Maldonado was arrested in 2019 after plotting to kill rival big cat keeper Carole Baskin, and ultimately sentenced to over 20 years for the murder-for-hire plot as well as federal animal abuse charges. As Boebert mentioned, Maldonado briefly entertained running for President via Colorado’s easily accessible ballot. Baskin, for her part, dumped hundreds of thousands into the failed Proposition 127 big cat hunting ban measure. While their story made for a gripping TV documentary, it’s a bit of a stretch to call Maldonado’s story an example of “American grit and spirit”–much like we suppose it would be for the owner of a failed gun-themed diner with occasional food poisoning issues.

In the race to the bottom that is both Republican politics and reality TV culture, game respects game.

Here’s Boebert in her full idiocy from something called “Prime Time with Stein”: