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

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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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. 

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. (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?”

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 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.

Maldonado stated if he wins, he’ll pardon himself and each different inmate convicted on comparable expenses as a result of he “actually 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 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.”

“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 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.”