Oklahoma's Weirdest Son, Joe Exotic, is Begging Trump for a Job

The never-ending political cycle is just getting more weird. Tiger King Joe Exotic is not only begging President Trump for a pardon, but he's pledging himself to the POTUS-elect in hopes of landing a cabinet position.

Joe wants to be Director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

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If you're keeping count, and why wouldn't you, this is the second time Joe has reached out to Donald Trump for a pardon.

He's currently serving a 21-year federal prison sentence for 17 federal animal cruelty crimes and trying to hire a hitman to kill his big cat rival, Carol Baskins.

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This is the second time Joe Exotic has asked President Trump for a pardon, and his convicted crimes may not be the only hitch in the giddy-up.

Joe recently ran a campaign from his prison cell to be elected as the 47th president of the United States as a Democrat... and he famously vowed not to pardon Trump when Teflon Don encountered legal issues earlier this year.

While it is far-fetched, to say the least, this likely wouldn't be the weirdest thing to happen in DC this time around.

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