Savannah Chrisley on parents' pardon: Trump said 'you guys don't look like terrorists'
Savannah Chrisley, the daughter of embattled reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, weighed in after President Trump pardoned her parents of their fraud and tax evasion charges.
The younger Chrisley, in an appearance on NewsNation's “On Balance,” said Trump spoke with her on the phone, saying “you guys don’t look like terrorists.”
“He did say he was like, you know, you guys don't look like terrorists. To me, was his exact words, which was pretty funny,” Chrisley told host Leland Vittert. “But he just said that their senses were outrageous and they were treated unfairly from everyone that he has spoken to.”
She added, “He wanted to bring my parents home and not just grant them a commutation, but he wanted to give them a full pardon well, and that means that it like it never happened.”
Todd and Julie Chrisley starred in the “Chrisley Knows Best” reality series that lasted from 2014 until 2023. The duo was convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion charges in 2022.
The father was sentenced to 12 years in prison and the mother was sentenced to seven years in prison. Both were also given 16 months of probation.
“Your parents are going to be free and clean, and I hope we can do it by tomorrow,” Trump said in video of the call on Tuesday, adding “I don’t know them, but give them my regards.”
Savannah Chrisley said that she has “fought” for two-and-half years for her parents’ release and that she believes in “law and order.”
“If I [believed] that my parents were guilty of what they did, then yes, they should have gone to prison,” she said, adding, “I do not believe that even if they were guilty, the time they got was … mean, it was absolutely insane.”
“But I brought up in our case, the huge Fourth Amendment violations, the illegal seizures, the fact that they had my father's face on a dart board, the IRS agent lying on the stand and referring to us as the Trumps of the South, and also accusing my family of terrorism just so they could run a financial report,” she told Vittert.
The Chrisley's daughter also addressed Republican National Convention (RNC) attendees last July, arguing that her parents were victims of a “two-faced justice system.”
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