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Trump ‘demanded a straight-up quid pro quo’ from Kim Kardashian, later broke with her over Biden: Book
He welcomed her into the Oval Office in 2018, but former President Trump reportedly had a much different response after the 2020 presidential election when Kim Kardashian called asking him for a criminal justice-related favor: “Hell no.”
The episode, which included Trump hanging up on the reality TV star, is recounted in Jonathan Karl’s forthcoming book “Tired of Winning.”
Kardashian made headlines in 2018 when she met with Trump in the Oval Office to discuss prison reform and sentencing. Days after the meeting, Trump granted clemency to Alice Johnson, who was serving a life sentence on nonviolent drug and money laundering charges.
“I have nothing bad to say about the president,” Kardashian said later that year. “He has done something amazing.”
Kardashian later would urge Trump to grant more commutations, according to the ABC News journalist’s book, as first reported Monday by Axios’s Mike Allen.
“A source familiar with the conversations tells me Trump listened to her requests and demanded a straight-up quid pro quo,” Karl said in his book.
“[Trump] would grant the commutations, he told Kardashian, if she leveraged her celebrity connections to get football stars who were friends of hers to come visit him at the White House.”
The 43-year-old SKIMS founder “actually tried to do what Trump demanded,” according to Karl, “seeing it as a small price to pay to get justice for people she believed were serving unjust sentences. But all the players she approached declined. Trump had become too toxic.”
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