122
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

President Trump says he will fully pardon Todd and Julie Chrisley, reality TV personalities who have served more than two years in prison after being convicted of funding their lavish lifestyle through tax evasion and bank fraud.

Prosecutors said they conspired to defraud community banks in the Atlanta area to take out more than $36 million in personal loans. They spent the money on luxury cars, designer clothes, real estate and travel and used new fraudulent loans to pay back old ones. They said the Chrisleys failed to pay taxes for the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 tax years.

"Over the course of a decade, the defendants defrauded banks out of tens of millions of dollars while evading payment of their federal income taxes," then-U.S. Attorney Ryan Buchanan said at the time, adding that their "lengthy sentences reflect the magnitude of their criminal scheme."

The Chrisleys have denied the charges and claimed they were unfairly targeted because of their conservative beliefs. Their oldest daughter, Savannah, has become an outspoken critic of the criminal justice system since her parents' incarceration.

She spoke onstage at the Republican National Convention in July, calling her parents victims of political persecution. After Trump took office, she told People that she was "going through the proper channels" to try to get them pardoned, and had lunch at the White House in February.

Those efforts seem to have paid off. On Tuesday, White House special assistant Margo Martin tweeted a video of Trump calling Savannah from the Oval Office to inform her of her parents' pardons.

Trump has pardoned a number of high-profile supporters in the early months of his second term, starting with hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters.

In February, he pardoned disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of corruption-related crimes in 2011. Trump commuted Blagojevich's 14-year sentence during his first term. Blagojevich attended the 2024 Republican National Convention in support of Trump, whom he called "the most demonized political figure in American history — and I know something about being demonized."

In March, Trump pardoned former Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who was two weeks into a 21-month prison sentence for an illegal campaign finance scheme (which he pleaded guilty to in 2022 but later tried unsuccessfully to rescind).

"May God bless America, despite the prosecutorial sins it committed against me, President Trump, and others the past four years," Kelsey said after receiving the full pardon.

In April, Trump pardoned Michele Fiore, a former Las Vegas city councilwoman and former Republican state lawmaker who was awaiting sentencing on federal wire fraud charges. Fiore, a loyal Trump supporter, was accused of using money meant to honor a slain police officer for her personal expenses, including cosmetic surgery, rent and her daughter's wedding.

And just this week, on Monday, Trump announced a pardon for Scott Jenkins, a former Virginia sheriff who was found guilty of accepting over $75,000 in bribes in exchange for appointing multiple businessmen as auxiliary deputy sheriffs in his Culpeper County department. He was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison in March, and was reportedly due to report to prison on Tuesday.

top 15 comments
sorted by: hot top new old
[-] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

Pardons for cash. The corruption is straight up and out in the open and almost every single elected representative who could do anything about it is fucking silent.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

"May God bless America, despite the prosecutorial sins it committed against me, President Trump, and others the past four years," Kelsey said after receiving the full pardon.

These people are an absolute scourge on humanity

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

The Chrisleys have denied the charges and claimed they were unfairly targeted because of their conservative beliefs.

So then they did pay their taxes those years and they didn't really defraud those banks? The former charge seems pretty damned easy to beat since you have a copy of your tax return that you filed. The latter also seems easy to prove your innocence by looking at the loan applications that they filled out and looking for inconsistencies with their actual finances/assets.

This shit is getting so absurd that even his most loyal rubes have to start seeing it for the bullshit that it is.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Anyone capable of seeing it would have already. A long time ago.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

So this just gets them out of prison right? They still can be sued for money right?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately, it sounds "money" isn't one of their strong points right now.

Ah who am I kidding, they just to release a chatgpt-written book, or a GoFundMe, and rubes will drain their social security to support them.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I feel like they would have been sued and settled on money matters by now if they are actively in jail. Everything they bought must have been seized.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

This is fucking sick. But, these are conservative values on display. While they think they are being unfairly targeted, in making such claims they show what they truly stand for: crime and ripping you off.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

The conservatives on Reddit seem pretty fucking confused about this, at least.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

How? How could you possibly be surprised by this AT ALL? Disingenuous fucks.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Because they have no clue what they've actually voted for. They apply whatever their values happen to be to Trump and when he doesn't do what they'd assume they freak out until they can make up an explanation.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Ok but who fucking does that? Rhetorical question... It's just so frustrating.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

How much did it cost them, what's the going rate right now?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

"Thank God"

Yep, living extremely lavishly and boisterous lay proclaiming your prayers are exactly what this god wants. He's rooting for your sports team, too. Yours specifically. The superbowl is a big deal to him.

this post was submitted on 28 May 2025
122 points (98.4% liked)

News

29602 readers
3210 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS