Joseph Maldonado-Passagebetter known as Joe Exoticprotagonist of a successful and controversial Netflix documentary series. tiger kingwill run as a candidate in the 2024 US presidential election despite still being in jail.
“This may seem like a joke, but it is not,” he said in a lengthy statement announcing his intentions to achieve The White house.
The documentary that made the former Oklahoma zoo owner and tiger breeder famous follows his daily life and his growing conflict with Carol Baskinowner of a big cat sanctuary that competed with her.
The program has become a television phenomenon during the coronavirus lockdown and has been hailed as a character. Joe Exoticsentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in prison for attempting to hire two hitmen to kill Baskin and for various crimes against flora and animal life.
His conviction found him guilty of killing five tigers, and in January 2022, a federal judge reduced his sentence to 21 years.
“I am here (in prison) only because of the corruption in Ministry of Justicethree criminals were told how to lie under oath, two fraudulent assistant federal prosecutors, two fraudulent FBI agents, and a fraudulent federal wildlife agent,” his website says.
All he did, he added, was “put down five very old and crippled tigers in the most humane way.”
It’s official
Joe Exotic filed his candidacy before the Federal Election Commission on March 10, as he indicated on Twitter and Instagram.
“Let’s not take into account that I’m gay, that I’m in prison, that I used drugs in the past, that I had more than one boyfriend at the same time, and that Carol hates me to death. All this has nothing to do with the fact that I can be his voice. The best thing they can do to support me is that all my life I’ve been used to fighting to get ahead,” he said.
Main character tiger king He admitted that he was bankrupt and that “everything” he had worked for had been taken away, but he sent a message of confidence to his would-be voters: “It’s time for us to rebuild this country. And yes, I can think of people who can help deal with this much better than they do right now.”
In the fight for this presidential election also, among others, former Republican President Donald Trump (2017-2021), while the current White House occupant, Democrat Joe Biden, has not officially announced his candidacy, but has said he plans to run for re-election. (EFE)
Source: RPP
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