Joe Exotic Hopes for Pardon After Retaining Attorney Connected to Trump

“Tiger King” star Joe Exotic has retained a lawyer with ties to President Donald Trump … and now he’s eager for a pardon, TMZ has realized.

As you realize … Joe is at present locked up in federal prison in Texas, serving a 21-year prison sentence for a murder-for-hire plot to kill his nemesis, Carole Baskin, and for wildlife violations.

His new lawyer, Peter Ticktin, went to navy faculty with POTUS again within the day, and Joe and Peter appear assured they will be capable of work one thing out.

We’re advised though Ticktin hasn’t been in contact with Trump concerning a possible pardon, he appears like he has a bonus as a result of he is gained the belief of the “players” concerned … a type of gamers clearly being Trump.

“The deck was stacked against my client who was presumed guilty from the start,” Ticktin advised us. “This is another innocent man who should be set free.”

We’re advised Ticktin can be submitting for a proper pardon and petition for cert with the Supreme Court for Joe’s attraction by Christmas.

At the New York Military Academy many years in the past, Ticktin served as Trump’s platoon sergeant. Trump was reportedly a captain, which might have positioned Ticktin as his subordinate.