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(NewsNation) — A time aft being pardoned by President Donald Trump, world TV prima Todd Chrisley is acceptable to beryllium released from the Federal Correctional Institution successful Pensacola, Florida, connected Wednesday.
Trump pardoned reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley connected Wednesday, a personage mates convicted of slope and taxation fraud successful 2022. Todd Chrisley was sentenced to 12 years successful national prison, portion Julie Chrisley received 7 years.
Their girl Savannah Chrisley exclusively told NewsNation that Trump called her portion she was walking into a market store.
She said Trump told her he didn’t cognize her parents personally but wished them “a bully life.”
Trump was joined for the telephone by "pardon czar" Alice Johnson, whose condemnation helium commuted during his archetypal term.
Savannah Chrisley has publically advocated for her parents' release, arguing their sentences were excessive. She told a assemblage astatine the 2024 Republican National Convention that they were the victims of a “two-faced justness system."
“If I [believed] that my parents were blameworthy of what they did, past yes, they should person gone to prison,” Savannah Chrisley told "On Balance" connected Tuesday. “I bash not judge that adjacent if they were guilty, the clip they got was … I mean, it was perfectly insane.”
The couple's 29th wedding day was May 25, and Chrisley said her parents would person “a precocious wedding anniversary” solemnisation upon their release.
NewsNation's Brian Entin has talked exclusively to Todd Chrisley from situation twice.
In December, the erstwhile existent property tycoon said helium was concerned astir conditions astatine the Pensacola, Fla., facility. He told NewsNation that helium and different inmates were subjected to filthy conditions.
He said prosecutors and situation unit had it retired for him.
"The authoritative said that we were the confederate mentation of the Trumps," helium said. "I'm not going to person idiosyncratic similar him interruption my family. And that's what helium wanted to do, but he's not been capable to bash that."
NewsNation's Kellie Meyer and Damita Menezes contributed to this report.
