Joe Exotic’s authorized team is so assured the “Tiger King” star will get a pardon from President Trump on Tuesday that they’ve a limo parked close to his jail — and hair and make-up on the ready.
“This time tomorrow, we’re going to be celebrating,” Eric Love, who’s main Exotic’s bid for freedom, advised Metro.co.uk in an interview Monday afternoon.
“We have now good motive to imagine it’ll come by,” he stated of a presidential pardon for the Netflix star, who’s serving 22 years for attempting to rent a hitman to kill zookeeper rival Carole Baskin.
“We’re assured sufficient we have already got a limousine parked about half a mile from the jail. We’re actually in motion mode proper now,” he stated of a stretch limo close to the Federal Medical Heart in Fort Price in Texas.
As soon as phrase of a pardon comes by, the motive force will choose up the authorized team in addition to a team for the flamboyant star’s hair, make-up and wardrobe, Love advised the Solar in a separate interview.
“We’re not going to have any cameras with us. It’s going to be a really non-public second,” Love stated — however purely as a result of Unique, whose actual identify is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, desires to be glammed up first.
“Joe is a really flamboyant particular person — Joe is a colourful persona. And in case you have a look at somebody once they’ve been incarcerated, they don’t appear to be that once they’re popping out,” Love advised the Solar.
“So Joe’s received to have that platinum completed, and effectively that’s what we received — hair, wardrobe and make-up. We’ve received the very best within the enterprise,” he stated.
Telling Metro that the “Tiger King” star’s hair was “the primary order of enterprise,” Love stated they might then “in all probability go and get some pizzas, steak, possibly a McRib.” They then plan to accommodate him in a ranch simply exterior Fort Price.
Love stated they imagine Trump will concern the high-profile pardon partly to “take many of the limelight away from President-elect Joe Biden” — and stated they have already got a thank-you video recorded.
“We have now it queued up and ready to go,” Love advised Metro. “As quickly as we get the phrase, we’re going to execute that video to the White Home and thank them.”
Maldonado-Passage is a 12 months into his sentence.
Trump beforehand stated he’ll “have a look” on the pardon request.
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