Kim Kardashian Lobbies Jared Kushner For Presidential Pardon For Inmate

In this handout photo provided by One Voice: Somos Live!, XXX onstage during "One Voice: Somos Live! A Concert For Disaster Relief" at the Universal Studios Lot on October 14, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.
LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 14: In this handout photo provided by One Voice: Somos Live!, Kim Kardashian participates in the phone bank onstage during "One Voice: Somos Live! A Concert For Disaster Relief" at the Univ... LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 14: In this handout photo provided by One Voice: Somos Live!, Kim Kardashian participates in the phone bank onstage during "One Voice: Somos Live! A Concert For Disaster Relief" at the Universal Studios Lot on October 14, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/One Voice: Somos Live!/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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The unlikely duo of Kim Kardashian West and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner has been communicating frequently in recent weeks about a presidential pardon for Alice Marie Johnson, a 62-year-old who is serving a life sentence for a non-violent drug crime, according to a Wednesday Mic report

The White House did not return TPM’s request for comment about the story.

West reportedly recruited a legal team to advocate for Johnson’s release after she first heard the prisoner’s story.

Unnamed sources told Mic that the conversations between West and Kushner have picked up in the past several days, and that White House attorneys have reviewed Johnson’s case.

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  1. Perhaps Kim should ask her husband if he thinks Ms. Johnson is in prison by choice, since Kanye seems to think people became slaves by choice.
    They deserve Trump.

  2. Why isn’t it being discussed during pillow talk?

  3. It is a peculiar quality of the Durp Singularity that, once you cross the event horizon, it seems to go on forever in an unending, ceaseless stream of ever more durpful durp whereas, to an outside observer you’re just instantly lost to reason forever.

  4. Indeed
    Collapsing on itself like a black hole , where the collective derp has overcome the forces of gravity. A place so powerful that not even light can escape, let alone a shred of reason

  5. And exactly why is Jared involved with this? In ordinary times this would be on the Onion. Every day reveals more corruption, stupidity, etc.

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