Todd Chrisley and his wife, Julie Chrisley, made a name for themselves on reality television. Their show Chrisley Knows Best showed their lives as parents raising children who loved to spend money and do things they asked them not to. Then they committed fraud.
Todd and Julie Chrisley were found guilty of fraud and were both sentenced to jail. I’d tell you the number of years but it changed so often because the family kept complaining about it and got their sentences reduced. But now, President Donald Trump has pardoned the family. Why? Probably because Savannah Chrisley, their daughter, went on and on about how much she supports Donald Trump. She really loves criminals, I guess?
Savannah Chrisley has been a very vocal part of her parents’ prison treatment. Instead of advocating for prison reform and working to make our prison system better than what it is, she has campaigned to just get her parents out despite the Chrisleys being found guilty of trying to steal millions from the IRS.
“It’s a terrible thing, but it’s a great thing because your parents are going to be free and clean,” Trump told the Chrisley children in a video posted Trump’s assistant, Margo Martin. “I hope we can do it by tomorrow. I don’t know them, but give them my regards.” The Chrisley children then thank the President for bringing their parents back to them.
Ultimately, the Chrisleys were found guilty of “conspiring to defraud community banks in the Atlanta area out of more than $36 million in loans, and they were also convicted of tax evasion.” They went to jail in 2023 to serve a total of 19 years between the two of them and will have served just over two.
So I guess it doesn’t matter that they tried to defraud banks?
People make mistakes and a lot of those incarcerated are an example of that. They should not be sentenced in the way that they are and there is a real conversation that we need to have about prison reform. What the Chrisleys did is not part of that conversation. Fraud is pretty much a straight forward issue. It’s not cool, don’t do it, you will caught.
And yet reality stars love to pretend like they did not know what they were doing. I’m sorry but lying about what you make to try to get loans to buy expensive things just sounds wrong so if you, like the Chrisleys, thought you could do that and get away with it, think again. Unless you have Donald Trump on speed dial then he can just pretend like what you did isn’t highly illegal and get you out of jail.
It’s just setting a bad precedent. Oh are you famous enough that if you cry and show love for Donald Trump, he can pardon you? Then do it! Commit crimes because our Criminal in Chief will just pretend like it didn’t happen. (Okay don’t ACTUALLY do that but you get what I’m saying.)
There are more important things happening in our world and yet the stars of Chrisley Knows Best are a priority for the President? This really is the bad place.
(featured image: NBC)
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