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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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00:00It's one of my favorite sayings when it relates to sports, which is to the victor go the spoils.

00:06It is also true of politics, which is why President Trump's pardon of Todd and Julie

00:12Chrisley really shouldn't surprise anyone.

00:16We know that that their daughter Savannah was out there campaigning for him.

00:22She spoke at the RNC.

00:24And so from that moment on, we should have known that if he were to win the election,

00:30that he was going to pardon them.

00:31There was something unusual about this.

00:33This is the part that you should be shocked and maybe even a little pissed off about.

00:40So presidents have an absolute right to pardon.

00:43And we've seen it with Biden pardoning his son.

00:48We've seen it with Bill Clinton.

00:49We've seen it with all of them.

00:50Every single president makes a pardon.

00:52And a lot of it is a mask for loyalty.

00:56But in this case, it's just out in the open.

01:00That when the Chrisley's daughter filed the petition with Trump, she didn't talk about the trial or the charges.

01:09That they had been done wrong during the trial.

01:11What she talked about was, I spoke at the convention.

01:14I did this for you.

01:15I did that for you.

01:17I mean, she spoke Trump's language.

01:19That's very transactional.

01:21Right.

01:21And it worked.

01:22And it worked.

01:23So the pardon is the pardon.

01:26That means they're going to go free.

01:28As Charles said, they may be free right now.

01:30The more interesting thing to me is they had to pay $17 million plus in restitution.

01:38Now, we're not sure how much of that they've actually paid.

01:41They've paid some.

01:41We don't know the amount.

01:43Right.

01:43So there are two elements here.

01:45As for what they have not paid, they don't have to pay it.

01:49So if they only paid $2 million, the other $15 million goes away.

01:53They don't have to pay it.

01:54As for the amount they actually paid, if the president says that that should go back to them,

02:03the 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

02:16and got money that they may have already spent or invested, but they have to somehow come up with it and pay them back.

02:23And in the wire fraud, the victims would be certain banks.

02:28The tax evasion, well, you know who the victims are there.

02:32Yes, you too.

02:34Taxpayers.

02:35So we don't know yet.

02:37We have not seen the actual pardon documents.

02:39So we don't know the specifics of what President Trump is ordering with this pardon.

02:44But, wow, if that happens and they end up getting all the money back, you just got to.

02:50Unbelievable.

02:50That would annoy a lot of people.

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