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Todd and Julie Chrisley Pardoned By President Trump | TMZ Live
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5/28/2025
President Trump is looking out for his fellow reality TV stars ... because POTUS just issued full pardons for "Chrisley Knows Best" stars Todd and Julie Chrisley.
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It's one of my favorite sayings when it relates to sports, which is to the victor go the spoils.
00:06
It is also true of politics, which is why President Trump's pardon of Todd and Julie
00:12
Chrisley really shouldn't surprise anyone.
00:16
We know that that their daughter Savannah was out there campaigning for him.
00:22
She spoke at the RNC.
00:24
And so from that moment on, we should have known that if he were to win the election,
00:30
that he was going to pardon them.
00:31
There was something unusual about this.
00:33
This is the part that you should be shocked and maybe even a little pissed off about.
00:40
So presidents have an absolute right to pardon.
00:43
And we've seen it with Biden pardoning his son.
00:48
We've seen it with Bill Clinton.
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We've seen it with all of them.
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Every single president makes a pardon.
00:52
And a lot of it is a mask for loyalty.
00:56
But in this case, it's just out in the open.
01:00
That when the Chrisley's daughter filed the petition with Trump, she didn't talk about the trial or the charges.
01:09
That they had been done wrong during the trial.
01:11
What she talked about was, I spoke at the convention.
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I did this for you.
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I did that for you.
01:17
I mean, she spoke Trump's language.
01:19
That's very transactional.
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Right.
01:21
And it worked.
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And it worked.
01:23
So the pardon is the pardon.
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That means they're going to go free.
01:28
As Charles said, they may be free right now.
01:30
The more interesting thing to me is they had to pay $17 million plus in restitution.
01:38
Now, we're not sure how much of that they've actually paid.
01:41
They've paid some.
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We don't know the amount.
01:43
Right.
01:43
So there are two elements here.
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As for what they have not paid, they don't have to pay it.
01:49
So if they only paid $2 million, the other $15 million goes away.
01:53
They don't have to pay it.
01:54
As for the amount they actually paid, if the president says that that should go back to them,
02:03
the government can sue or they can sue their victims to return the money to them even though they are victims that a jury said were victims
02:16
and got money that they may have already spent or invested, but they have to somehow come up with it and pay them back.
02:23
And in the wire fraud, the victims would be certain banks.
02:28
The tax evasion, well, you know who the victims are there.
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Yes, you too.
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Taxpayers.
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So we don't know yet.
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We have not seen the actual pardon documents.
02:39
So we don't know the specifics of what President Trump is ordering with this pardon.
02:44
But, wow, if that happens and they end up getting all the money back, you just got to.
02:50
Unbelievable.
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That would annoy a lot of people.
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