Donald Trump announces prison pardons, seemingly ignores Kardashian's request

Kim Kardashian West pretty much broke the Internet again on May 30 when she pulled the most unexpected move and visited President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.



Her visit to The White House wasn't just for a photo opp, but perhaps that's how Trump saw it.





The 37-year-old mother-of-three was there to discuss a pardon for Alice Marie Johnson, a great-grandmother currently serving jail time for a low-level drug offence.



In the US, the President has the power to free federal prisoners by pardoning those who have been convicted of a crime.



Following Kardashian's visit, Trump, 71, announced that he would indeed be granting pardons, but did not include Johnson in his list of convicted criminals, seemingly ignoring the star's request.



Instead, he will be wiping the record of Dinesh D'Souza, a conservative author on probation for arranging illegal campaign donations to a New York politician.



Trump tweeted on Thursday that D'Souza "was treated very unfairly by our government".





He also said he might pardon lifestyle guru Martha Stewart and former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.



The President has a past working relationship with both convicted criminals, who appeared on his TV show The Apprentice.

In an interview directly after the meeting, Kardashian said that Trump listened to her appeal to free 63-year-old Johnson, and is hopeful that her visit was successful.



"I think that he really spent the time to listen to our case that we were making for Alice," she told Mic.



"He really understood, and I am very hopeful that this will turn out really positively, I hope."





Johnson, who is 22 years into a life sentence at an Alabama prison, wrote a letter to Kardashian thanking her for seeking justice.



"I was drowning and you have thrown me a life jacket and given me hope that this Life jacket I'm serving may one day be taken off," Johnson wrote in the note, shared by the media mogul on Instagram.



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She continued: "I am so humbled by what you are doing and have already done on my behalf."





Apart from posting a photo to his Twitter account with the star, Trump, who has previously suggested the death penalty for drug dealers, gave no indication that he would grant Kardashian's request.