In a heartwarming interview with Lara Trump on Fox’s “My View,” Alice Marie Johnson gave insight into her roles as Donald Trump’s pardon czar and explained how she will use her role to help the conservative victims of lawfare fight back.
For context, Johnson was given a sentence of life without the possibility of parole for being loosely connected to drug dealers, even though she had no prior run-ins with the law. This sentence, which was the same sentence given to infamous serial killer Charles Manson, tugged at Trump’s heart, and he issued her a full pardon.
Speaking to Lara Trump, Johnson overflowed with gratitude when discussing the president. She began, “I [am grateful] every single day that I walk into this building, I’ve gone from prison house to the White House, and it’s just incredible to me that my life would take a full circle journey. Seven years ago, I was sitting in a prison cell.”
Explaing how her expeirce infromers her new role, the mother said, “It’s really easy for me because I’ve lived it, and so the President has entrusted me with this mission to find help him, find those people who deserve this second chance, who are similarly situated, not just like me, but who have served enough time, who have paid their debt to society,” adding, ” Plus there are those who have been… the victims of lawfare the same way our president was.”
Noting Trump’s generosity, the Pardon Czar thanked God for the president. She stated, “Thank God that my case came to the attention of President Trump, and he had compassion on me. He was the first one who really pulled back the layers to my case to say this is wrong. I had appealed to President Obama three times and been turned down all three times. But when it came to President Trump, he is the reason I’m sitting here today.”
Johnson described her reaction to Trump’s generosity: “When President Trump gave me a full pardon. I felt that my life was starting all over again, not knowing that I will be advocating and fighting so hard for the freedom of others. President Trump had asked me to go find people like myself, and I brought many to the White House, and President Trump gave those individuals a second chance.”
Adding to her effusive praise, the former convict described how Trump was exactly what America needed. Johnson said, “Only someone like President Trump could make my story possible. We needed someone right at that moment, and in this time we’re in now, who has the courage to make right decisions, and there are so many others who are serving long, unnecessary sentences, who pose no safety risk and who have rehabilitated, who deserve this second chance.”
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Concluding her remarks, she pointed out the corrupt court system. She declared, “I am going to find as many as I possibly can find, but I’m also going to be advocating [for change] and looking at the things that are out there, on the books, that need to be changed, but to also do what the president has entrusted me to do, and let’s find those individuals who need their second chance, those individuals who had lost hope in a system that was totally corrupt.”
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