Tiger King star Joe Exotic asks for Trump pardon

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The outspoken star of a hit Netflix series is “begging” President Trump to consider pardoning him after he was found guilty of conspiring to kill a big-cat rights activist in Florida.

In a handwritten note addressed to Trump, Tiger King star Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, better known as Joe Exotic, said he was asking for the president to see the “truth” and set him free, according to the letter obtained by CBS News.

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