Then-President Donald Trump asked reality TV star Kim Kardashian to use her clout to get pro football players to visit the White House in exchange for supporting her clemency requests in the final days of his term, according to a forthcoming book.
The bizarre quid-pro-quo request is outlined by ABC News’ Jonathan Karl in his new tome “Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party,” excerpts of which were published by Axios Monday.
According to Karl, Kardashian, now 43, called the soon-to-be ex-president to push him to commute the sentences of several prisoners before he left office.
“[Trump] would grant the commutations, he told Kardashian, if she leveraged her celebrity connections to get football stars who were friends of hers to come visit him at the White House,” Karl wrote.
Kardashian attempted to deliver for Trump, “seeing it as a small price to pay to get justice for people she believed were serving unjust sentences,” the author goes on.
“All the players she approached declined. Trump had become too toxic. In the final two weeks of his presidency, nobody wanted to be anywhere near him.”
Trump famously welcomed the “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” star to the White House back in 2018 to discuss pardons.
The A-lister’s lobbying led to the 45th president granting clemency to Alice Marie Johnson, who had been serving out a life sentence for her role in a cocaine trafficking organization.
At the time, Kardashian’s husband Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, had been a staunch support of Trump. Ye and Kardashian divorced in 2022.
After the 2020 election, Trump began to sour on Kardashian, believing that she had backed his rival, Democrat Joe Biden.
Months after Trump left the White House, Karl writes, Kardashian reached out and sought to recruit him to back another clemency plea.
“Hell no, the former president told her. He wouldn’t do it. ‘You voted for Biden and now you come asking me for a favor?’ Trump told her,” per the book.
“After a few more choice words, the line went dead. Trump had hung up on her.”
Kardashian has not publicly confirmed who she backed in 2020, but she did post three blue hearts on social media alongside a picture of Biden and now-Vice President Kamala Harris after the race was called on Nov. 7, 2020.
Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign vehemently denied the tale.
“Disgraceful and talentless John Carl [sic] is a back-bencher who could never get his own show for obvious reasons. Excerpts previously released from this ‘book’ have already been thoroughly debunked,” a Trump spokesman told The Post.
“This filth either belongs in the discount bargain bin in the fiction section of the bookstore or should be repurposed as toilet paper.”
Since pushing for the clemencies in 2018, Kardashian has studied up to become a lawyer to further her criminal justice reform activism.
After failing the bar exam multiple times, she revealed in December 2021 that she passed the California “baby bar.”
Karl’s book is set to hit the shelves on Tuesday.