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President Trump’s granting of clemency to Alice Marie Johnson Tuesday began with an Oval Office meeting with Kim Kardashian West a week earlier.
But it really began 7 months earlier, when Kardashian West watched a video about Johnson on Mic, the lifestyle and celebrity news and opinion site. Kardashian then shared that story with her 60 million Twitter followers.
Johnson, 63, began serving life in prison in 1996 for a nonviolent drug conviction. She was one of thousands serving life sentences without parole for nonviolent offenses, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
Mic publisher Cory Haik called Johnson’s plight, and the role mega-celebrity Kim Kardashian had in freeing her, a “meta story.
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