A reporter asked Trump if he'd pardon Joe Exotic from 'Tiger King' and Trump said he'd look into it

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• President Donald Trump joked at his Wednesday press briefing that he would "take a look" at pardoning Joe Exotic from Netflix's "Tiger King."
• The now-famous zookeeper is serving 22 years in prison after a federal jury convicted him of wildlife crimes and hatching a murder-for-hire plot against his rival Carole Baskin. 
• He previously asked the president for a pardon. 
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President Donald Trump said he'd look into pardoning Joe Exotic from the Netflix series "Tiger King" after a reporter asked him at a press conference on Wednesday. 

Joseph Maldonado-Passage, known as "Joe Exotic," who is the star of the popular docuseries, is serving a 22-year prison sentence after a jury convicted him of hiring a hitman to murder animal-rights activist Carole Baskin. 

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