Joe Exotic Says Presidential Run is ‘Not a Joke’ in Prison Call With Fox News

Despite being incarcerated in federal prison over several animal-related crimes—and masterminding a plot to kill his conservationist foe Carole Baskin—Tiger King star Joe “Exotic” Maldonado-Passage says his 21-year sentence should not deter Americans from supporting the 2024 presidential wannabe.

In an interview with Fox News over the weekend, Maldonado-Passage, who was incarcerated in 2018, spoke to Fox from prison, defending his February filing to run as a presidential candidate using the slogan “Make America Exotic.”

“It’s my Constitutional right to do this,” Maldonado-Passage told Fox’s Lawrence Jones when asked to reply to those who thought of his ambitions as a “big joke.”

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