Fox & Friends makes strong case for why Chrisley family pardon is fair

The Fox & Friends crew offered an insightful look into President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley.

The Chrisleys, the stars of their own reality TV show Chrisley Knows Best, were convicted in 2022 of defrauding banks to the tune of millions of dollars. They were imprisoned over $30 million in fraudulent loans, with Todd receiving a 12-year sentence and Julie getting seven.

In February, it was reported that the pair was asking Trump for a pardon, and it appears that their pleas were not in vain. However, the move is not without controversy, with many arguing that the massive amount of money involved justified the sentences.

However, Fox News’s Lawrence Jones believes this is an example of Trump making good on his campaign promise to end the “weaponization of the feds when it comes to the FBI, these US attorney’s offices as well.”

“And one of the arguments that [Trump] made is that he wasn’t the only one that was targeted,” by the feds, Jones explained. “There has been overcharging going on with the feds. You’ve got criminals running the street, and then you’ve got people on tax charges that are serving 10 years. A lot of people don’t feel like that’s fair. Two of the folks were the Chrisley family.”

“They were sentenced to a combined 19 years,” co-host Ainsley Earhardt pointed out. “You were going to say 12, according to this article, it’s 19 years in prison. That’s a long time for tax evasion.”

“I thought they were accused of submitting fraudulent documents when applying for bank loans. Julie, the wife. Also, allegedly submitted fake credit reports and bank statements while attempting to rent a house over in California. They were convicted in ’22 of multiple crimes, including orchestrating a $30 million bank fraud and tax evasion,” Brian Kilmeade said, reading an article about the crimes. “And they did it in front of a very popular reality show. So it’s definitely white collar crime.”

“They’ve been serving for two and a half years already,” Earhardt explained. “It was January two years ago, so almost two-and-a-half years. And their daughter Savannah’s been fighting for them. She said on social media that she’s raising all of the kids. If you watch that show, it’s a cute family, a family about faith and trying to do the right thing, and it takes you through several moves in their house. And Savannah is going to college and things like that. So America’s embraced this family. And they were convicted. But they’ve served their time. For two and a half years, they were taken away from their family and both are serving together.”

“When you look at the American people, it’s very simple for them when they look at their communities and they look at how unsafe they are,” Jones noted. “I mean, we get reports every single day from the administration. Busting illegals that were in the country for violent offenses, and none of them have served any of the time. We just let them there. So when you have a U.S. Attorney’s office that is focused on this and you’ve got some folks that have already served their time, I think the president felt like it was overcharging there and there were some irregularities in the case.”

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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to BizPac Review.

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