Kim Kardashian just finished a meeting with Donald Trump

Publish Date
Thursday, 31 May 2018, 2:06PM
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It's not your everyday reality TV star thing, but Kim Kardashian has visited US president Donal Trump.

Donald Trump posed for a photo with Kim Kardashian in the Oval Office after a 'great meeting' discussing prison reform. 

Kim Kardashian spent an hour at the White House on this morning in a meeting with the president's son-in-law that also included a conversation with Donald Trump about a first-time drug offender and great-grandmother serving a life sentence in prison. 

Lawyer Brittany Barnett told DailyMail.com that Kardashian planned to ask President Trump to grant Alice Johnson leniency in an anticipated face-to-face.

'Today's her birthday, so no greater gift than freedom on her birthday,' Barnett said of her 63-year-old client petitioning for a pardon. 

Kardashian had a confirmed meeting on prison reform with Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser. Barnett said it was her 'hope' that Kardashian would also have an opportunity to plead Johnson's case to the president.

That hope came true.  

'The message to the president is that Alice Johnson, the 21 years she has been in prison, represents a punishment that more than pays her debt to society and that to keep her prison the rest of her life is morally and economically unjustifiable,' Barnett stated.

Kim Kardashian, 37, in both her meetings with Kushner and the president, was expected to discuss a pardon for Johnson, who will otherwise spend the rest of her life in prison for a first-time drug offence.

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Johnson's life sentence did not come with the opportunity for parole. Her conviction and incarceration caught the eye of Kardashian on Twitter earlier this year.  

Johnson's lawyer said the great-grandmother 'more than deserves the opportunity to reintegrate into society' after spending so many years behind bars.

Barnett said that Johnson's legal team does not 'have any expectations' that Trump will act today or at all.

'We do hope that the president will grant her clemency today, but we don't know that will happen,' she said. 'We're encouraged to see that people like Alice, and thousands of other people like Alice, are getting attention and hopefully release soon.'

Kushner at a White House event this month said, 'The single biggest thing we want to do is really define what the purpose of a prison is. Is the purpose to punish, is the purpose to Warehouse, or is the purpose to rehabilitate?'

- Daily Mail 

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