“Your parents are going to be free and clean and I hope that we can do it by tomorrow,” Trump said in a phone call with their daughter, Savannah Chrisley, a clip of which was posted online by a White House aide. The aide added, “Trump Knows Best!”
“They’ve been given a pretty harsh treatment based on what I’m hearing,” the former president added.
A White House official, speaking anonymously, confirmed that the pardons are expected shortly.
The move fits a broader trend of Trump granting clemency to political allies and public figures convicted of financial crimes. This week alone, he pardoned Scott Jenkins, a former Virginia sheriff convicted of fraud and bribery, and Paul Walczak, a Florida executive with ties to the leak of Ashley Biden’s diary. Earlier, he pardoned Nevada Republican Michele Fiore, convicted of misusing charitable funds.
The Chrisleys’ attorney, Alex Little, welcomed the pardon as “correct[ing] a deep injustice.” He claimed the couple was targeted “because of their conservative values and high profile,” calling the prosecution “tainted by multiple constitutional violations and political bias.”
