(Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic the Tiger King, commenting on former President Donald Trump’s stream of pardons en masse before he left office. Exotic and his lawyer alike thought he would surely be pardoned — he even had a stretch limo awaiting him — but it was not meant to be.)
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