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‘Exotic’ presidential candidate running from prison tells Trump, ‘Welcome to the party,’ after indictment

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EXCLUSIVE: Joe “Unique” Maldonado, who launched a 2024 presidential marketing campaign from jail, needs former President Trump would have “his arraignment in an orange jumpsuit and shackles” after his indictment Thursday.

“Former President Donald Trump now that you’ve been indicted, welcome to the get together,” Maldonado wrote on his Instagram. “Trump ought to must go to arraignment in an orange jumpsuit and shackles and be humiliated identical to the remaining (of) us have been, harmless or not.”

Maldonado, who’s operating as a member of the Libertarian Get together, was locked up in 2018 after being discovered responsible of murder-for-hire expenses and is preventing to show his innocence whereas operating within the 2024 presidential race. 

In a press release to Fox Information Digital, the star of Netflix’s “Tiger King” stated although he respects the previous president, Trump “spent 4 years doing nothing to scrub up the Justice System, The Jail System or the FBI. So welcome to the get together pal…”

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Joe Unique from Netflix’s “Tiger King” introduced final month he would run for president in 2024 from jail. (Netflix/Brandon Bell through Getty Photos)

Trump was indicted Thursday by a New York grand jury after years-long investigations into his alleged position in hush cash funds to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels and mannequin Karen McDougal throughout his presidential marketing campaign.

“I want he must get his arraignment in an orange jumpsuit and shackles identical to everybody else that’s made to look responsible proper off the bat,” Maldonado advised Fox Digital in a press release.

Insisting he’s harmless after being convicted of attempting to rent hitmen to kill an animal rights advocate, Maldonado stated he’s dedicated to exonerating himself and plans to assist “others caught on this gradual system and need to unite this nation as a substitute of tearing it aside.”

Contemplating Trump and President Biden are beneath investigation for improperly storing categorized paperwork, “what the hell’s unsuitable with a man operating from jail?” Maldonado advised Fox Information Digital in an unique interview earlier this week. 

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The “Tiger King” star took goal at Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who trails Trump in early 2024 polls however has not but introduced a presidential run.

Former President Trump was indicted Thursday.

Former President Trump was indicted Thursday. (Scott Olson)

“Ron DeSantis is harmful for this nation. He is prudent with Disney, he is proved it with the opposite lawsuits he launched in Florida. Should you don’t love his manner, he will make a regulation and make it unlawful for you. Very harmful man.”

Unique additionally stated that in the case of Trump, “he is workable if typically he would simply preserve his mouth shut as a result of he blows a lot smoke. I do not imagine that the election was stolen, in any respect. I believe folks misplaced it. And if he would have handed the torch and went away a grown man as a substitute of throwing a match, he most likely can be re-elected once more.

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“President Biden, he wants to only get up, him and Vice President Harris, how they need to do justice and jail reform on this nation, and he is executed nothing. … We have now President Putin who is needed. President Trump is about to be indicted. Hunter Biden and President Biden are beneath investigation. What the hell is unsuitable with a man operating from jail?”

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The U.S. Structure solely states three necessities for operating for president, none of which particularly stop a candidate from operating for the workplace whereas in jail.

Joe Exotic launched his 2024 presidential campaign in February.

Joe Unique launched his 2024 presidential marketing campaign in February. (Netflix US/AFP)

In 2020, Maldonado was sentenced to 22 years in jail for 17 counts of animal abuse and two counts associated to expenses that he employed somebody to kill activist Carole Baskin. Regardless of his conviction, the Tiger lover has maintained his innocence.

“I’ve by no means abused an animal in my life. I am not in right here for animal abuse. I am in right here for taking an endangered species and not using a allow,” he stated.

Maldonado stated his conviction is an instance of why the nation is “so corrupt.”

“I ran for workplace in 2016 and 2018. So this is not only a publicity stunt. Any individual has to provide working-class folks on this nation a voice. And now that I see it from the within of how corrupt this technique is, I will be that voice,” the fact star stated.

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Maldonado stated if he wins, he’ll pardon himself and each different inmate convicted on comparable expenses as a result of heactually imagine there’s most likely near 30,000 folks which can be nonviolent offenders that must go residence and return to their households.”

Joseph Maldonado-Passage is serving a prison sentence after being found guilty of participating in a murder-for-hire plot against Carole Baskin. The U.S. Constitution does not specifically prevent someone from running while incarcerated.

Joseph Maldonado-Passage is serving a jail sentence after being discovered responsible of collaborating in a murder-for-hire plot in opposition to Carole Baskin. The U.S. Structure doesn’t particularly stop somebody from operating whereas incarcerated. (Santa Rosa County Jail)

Unique additionally responded to Angela McArdle, head of the Libertarian Get together, after she advised TMZ his presidential bid was “simply tigers and glitter.”

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“I’ve a ton of Libertarian supporters who agree with me. … We’re by no means going to get all people to conform to something as a result of you may’t be a Republican, you may’t be a Democrat, you may’t be a libertarian and run a rustic with 330 million completely different varieties of individuals. We will have to face within the center, and we will must say, ‘You are able to do this, and you are able to do this, however let’s simply not damage no person.”

“The Tiger King” stated voters ought to take into account him for president “should you agree that we want a change.”

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“And should you do not, then preserve voting for the opposite folks,” he stated. “They preserve this nation in turmoil.”

Carole Baskin's late husband's whereabouts caused a social media concern.

Carole Baskin’s late husband’s whereabouts brought on a social media concern. (Arya Doheny)

When requested what qualities he believes make him stand out among the many different candidates, Maldonado stated he’s “not ashamed of who I’m, and I am not ashamed of something that I’ve executed in my previous. And I am not ashamed of any errors I’ll make sooner or later. And I’ll inform you like it’s whether or not you need to hear the reality or not. I am not going to sugarcoat something, and I’ll stick up for everybody.

“It is time that the folks on this nation get up. , we won’t shove our spiritual beliefs that I’ve down 300 million folks’s throats. We have now folks from everywhere in the world dwell right here, and all of us must get alongside.”

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Judge rules illegal immigrants have gun rights protected by 2nd Amendment

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A federal judge in Illinois has found that the Constitution protects the gun rights of noncitizens who enter the United States illegally.

U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman on Friday ruled that a federal prohibition on illegal immigrants owning firearms is unconstitutional as applied to defendant Heriberto Carbajal-Flores. The court found that while the federal ban is “facially constitutional,” there is no historical tradition of firearm regulation that permits the government to deprive a noncitizen who has never been convicted of a violent crime from exercising his Second Amendment rights.

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“The noncitizen possession statute … violates the Second Amendment as applied to Carbajal-Flores,” the judge wrote. “Thus, the Court grants Carbajal-Flores’ motion to dismiss.”

Coleman, a President Obama appointee, cited the landmark Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022), which established a new standard to determine whether a law violates the Second Amendment. Since Bruen, a multitude of federal and state gun control measures have been challenged in courts with mixed results. 

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The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” (iStock)

In this case, U.S. v. Carbajal-Flores, the court considered whether people who enter the country illegally can be banned from owning firearms.

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Carbajal-Flores is an illegal immigrant who, on June 1, 2020, was found to be in possession of a handgun in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago. He was subsequently charged with violating a federal law that prohibits any noncitizen who is not legally authorized to be in the U.S. from “possess[ing] in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition; or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.” 

In an April 2022 decision, Coleman denied Carbajal-Flores’ first motion to dismiss his indictment, finding that the ban was constitutional. However, Carbajal-Flores asked the court to reconsider that ruling following the Supreme Court’s decision in Bruen and appellate decisions in the Third and Seventh Circuit that considered whether people convicted of non-violent crimes can be prohibited from possessing firearms. 

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U.S. District Judge Sharon J. Coleman, left, presents an award for Excellence in Pro Bono and Public Interest Service to attorney Paula E. Litt, on May 1, 2019. (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division)

Upon review, Coleman concluded that Carbajal-Flores’ illegally present status was not sufficient to deny him Second Amendment rights. The judge said the “plain text” of the Constitution “presumptively protects firearms possession by undocumented persons.” 

“Carbajal-Flores has never been convicted of a felony, a violent crime, or a crime involving the use of a weapon. Even in the present case, Carbajal-Flores contends that he received and used the handgun solely for self-protection and protection of property during a time of documented civil unrest in the Spring of 2020,” the judge wrote. “Additionally, Pretrial Service has confirmed that Carbajal-Flores has consistently adhered to and fulfilled all the stipulated conditions of his release, is gainfully employed, and has no new arrests or outstanding warrants.”

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The court determined that because there is insufficient evidence to suggest Carbajal-Flores is a danger to society, there is no historical analogue that would permit the federal government to deny him his gun rights. 

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A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that the Second Amendment protects the gun rights of illegal immigrants. (Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“The Court finds that Carbajal-Flores’ criminal record, containing no improper use of a weapon, as well as the non-violent circumstances of his arrest do not support a finding that he poses a risk to public safety such that he cannot be trusted to use a weapon responsibly and should be deprived of his Second Amendment right to bear arms in self-defense,” Judge Coleman wrote. “Thus, this Court finds that, as applied to Carbajal-Flores, Section 922(g)(5) is unconstitutional.”

The ruling has divided gun rights activists, with some arguing that noncitizens should not have rights protected by the Constitution.

Erich Pratt, senior vice president of Gun Owners of America (GOA), told Fox News Digital his group “has historically recognized the dangers unchecked illegal immigration presents, chiefly of which is a serious potential to swing the balance of power into the hands of anti-gun politicians.” 

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Pratt reiterated GOA does not support amnesty for illegal immigrants. 

“In this underlying ruling, the Second Amendment community undoubtedly has mixed feelings, because while illegal aliens are most certainly not part of ‘the People,’ everyone has a God-given right to defend themselves against violent acts like rape and murder,” he said. 

“Of course, the courts wouldn’t have to decide this question if Joe Biden and the Democratic Party would simply secure our borders.”

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Trump sues ABC News and George Stephanopoulos for defamation

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Former President Trump is suing TV journalist George Stephanopoulos and ABC News for defamation for saying he raped advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.

On a March 10 edition of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” the anchor said Trump was “liable for rape” during his interview with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.). Stephanopoulos was pressing Mace, a rape victim herself, on how she could rationalize supporting Trump’s 2024 presidential candidacy.

Trump’s lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Miami, said the jury in the Carroll case found him liable for sexual abuse — not rape — and that Stephanopoulos defamed the presumptive Republican presidential nominee by using the term.

A jury ruled in January that Trump must pay Carroll $83.3 million in damages after finding Trump liable for defamation, the second case related to a 1996 incident that occurred when the two met in a New York department store.

In May, jurors rejected Carroll’s allegation that she was raped but found Trump responsible for the lesser charge of sexual abuse, along with defamation, and awarded Carroll $5 million in damages. Trump, who denied that the incident occurred, repeatedly mocked Carroll over her claims.

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Trump’s suit cites how Stephanopoulos himself reported that Trump was not liable for rape when he reported on the verdict of the previous Carroll case on May 10.

The suit also noted that the headline on an ABC News online story on the Mace interview first used the word “rape” and was later changed to “sexual abuse.”

Trump’s suit is asking for unspecified damages.

ABC News has not issued a comment on the matter.

The tense “This Week” interview was widely shared on social media. Mace took umbrage at Stephanopoulos’ question, claiming he was “rape-shaming” her by bringing up her own experience as a victim, which she has publicly discussed.

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Trump has previously sued media outlets, including the New York Times and CNN, with no success.

Trump sued the Times over its investigation of his finances, which led to the recent New York civil court ruling that has him on the hook for $454 million. The suit was dismissed in March and Trump had to reimburse the Times legal cost.

In 2022, Trump sued CNN for $475 million claiming the news network was waging a campaign against him by booking guests critical of his policies and speeches. The case was dismissed in 2023.

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Mark Milley and former CENTCOM commander to face grilling in Congress over Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal

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Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, will testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday for the first time since retiring, potentially freeing him to offer new details about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Joining Milley will be retired Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, who served as United States Central Command (CENTCOM) commander during the 2021 withdrawal. The pair have appeared before Congress to discuss failings in the operation before, but Republicans say they may have been more tight-lipped then because they were still serving under President Biden.

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Both Milley and McKenzie testified in 2021 that they had advised Biden to maintain a small U.S. force in Afghanistan, rather than committing to a full U.S. withdrawal. Milley himself has described the operation as a “strategic failure,” saying he has “lots of regrets.”

“It didn’t end the way I wanted it. That didn’t end the way any of us wanted it,” he told ABC News in September. “In the broader sense, the war was lost.”

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Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, left, will testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee for the first time since retiring on Tuesday, potentially freeing him to offer new details about the botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The Tuesday afternoon hearing comes after months of Republican investigations into Biden’s handling of the withdrawal. Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas., has repeatedly demanded the State Department turn over documents relating to the operation.

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken has so far refused to offer interview notes relating to the Afghanistan after action report, which blamed senior officials for failing to prepare for all outcomes in the operation.

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Retired Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, former commander of the United States Central Command, listens during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Despite the deaths of 13 U.S. servicemembers and the abandoning of tens of thousands of Afghan allies to Taliban rule, Biden strongly believes behind closed doors that he made the right decisions during the operation, according to an upcoming book.

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Following the withdrawal, “no one offered to resign, in large part because the president didn’t believe anyone had made a mistake. Ending the war was always going to be messy,” author Alexander Ward writes in the book, “The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore Foreign Policy After Trump.”

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Despite the deaths of 13 U.S. servicemembers and the abandoning of tens of thousands of Afghan allies to Taliban rule, President Biden strongly believes behind closed doors that he made the right decisions during the operation, according to an upcoming book. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden allegedly told his top aides, including White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, that they had done their best given the situation and vowed to stand by them.

Fox News’ Nikolas Lanum contributed to this report.

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