During a recent interview on Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade challenged Alice Marie Johnson, Trump's pardon czar, regarding the controversial pardons granted by President Trump. Specifically, Kilmeade focused on the pardon granted to rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again, who has a history of violent crimes. Johnson defended the decision by highlighting the rapper’s difficult upbringing in an impoverished environment and argued the charges were not reflective of his character. The discussion also touched on a pardon for Todd and Julie Chrisley, which Johnson said was due to oversentencing.
KILMEADE: So A couple of rappers have come out or say one in particular. YoungBoy. One of his lyrics in 2017 that he put out is F Donald Trump. and some more disparaging things he had to say. Violent past assault and battery. Multiple firearm and drug charges. What sold you on him getting a second chance?
JHHNSON: I look at the age and how this young man grew up. He grew up in a very impoverished neighborhood. And the things that he had to face being a young boy growing up. Most of them were gun charges. Without the guns being discharged.
Johnson stated, 'He didn't come out of prison. He was given a pardon so he could have a new beginning. The officers who in this particular case they came at him as though he was a terrorist and he was on a set filming for a video.'
Earlier in the interview, Johnson told Kilmeade that Trump's pardon of reality TV couple Todd and Julie Chrisley came because they had been oversentenced.
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