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DAYS AWAY FROM a historic summit with North Korea’s mercurial leader, US President Donald Trump held a White House meeting with Kim Kardashian West to discuss prison reform and sentencing.
The reality star entered the grounds of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue wearing a black suit and canary yellow stilettos, an AFP photographer witnessed.
Kardashian was expected to meet aide Jared Kushner, who has spearheaded stuttering White House efforts at criminal justice reform.
In the end, she met with fellow TV personality, President Donald Trump – formerly of The Apprentice and New York tabloid fame.
“Great meeting with @KimKardashian today, talked about prison reform and sentencing”, the president said in a tweet, accompanied by a photograph of the pair in the Oval Office, with Trump flashing a broad grin.
Kardashian West, 37, is known for her socialite TV persona, but has also called for the release of Alice Marie Johnson, a 62-year-old who has been in prison for more than two decades for a nonviolent drug offense.
In an interview, Kardashian West said she’d been moved by Johnson’s story after seeing a video.
I think that she really deserves a second chance at life … I’ll do whatever it takes to get her out.
Fixing tough sentencing laws had been a priority of president Barack Obama’s administration, but he failed to win congressional support, prompting a stream of presidential pardons and clemency actions.
Trump has so far taken a more hardline approach, advocating a “lock-em-up-and-throw-away-the-key” approach to criminal justice.
During his first year and half in office he has pardoned disgraced Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, a Trump supporter who was convicted of violating a court order to halt traffic patrols targeting immigrants.
He also pardoned vice president Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
Last month, Kim’s rapper husband Kanye West raised eyebrows after tweeting about his “love” for Trump and describing him as a “brother” with whom he shared “dragon energy”.
© – AFP 2018 with additional reporting by AP.
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Scary thing is, the way things are going with populism, we could have a president Kardashian in the next decade…
@Kenny Wolf: And coronation street becoming a political party.
@Kenny Wolf: And I’ll be waiting in a book depository
@Craig Barry: Unlike Oswald.
@Kenny Wolf: Kim Wrong -Un
@Craig Barry: Well done Craig. You’re now on a watch list and barred for life from the States.
Donald must like meeting porn stars
@dick dastardly: …again
@dick dastardly: wonder how much it cost him this time?
She’d make a great Attorney General. #MAGA
What,why,how, it’s. This is America
@alphanautica: She probably couldn’t spell AG
What does Kim Kardashian or Donald Trump know about prison reform should he not have met with some kind of prison official.
@Sorcha Hendry instagram: @SorchaHendry86: so you’ve never seen Ms.Kardashian in her “Don’t Call Me Baby” one piece leather ‘n’ boots outfit…?
Imagine being a fly on the wall for that conversation.. only question here is which 1 of them is more dumb.. these 2 make Dougal look like Einstein
@Dave Johnston: money dosnt equate to intelligence. Just because you have one dosnt mean you have the other.
@Dave Johnston: or they were into extremely privileged backrounds. It’s common knowledge that trump has made extremely poor investments over and over. He was lucky to have a rich pop is all
@Dave Johnston: trump a shrewd business man!!
i encourage you to look at his business failings. Don’t buy the hype.and he created the hype himself. It is a matter of fact that if trump never entered business and put his inherited money in a bank he would of earned more money.he and his businesses have gone bankrupt so many times.
@Dave Johnston: one of them happened to have good managers who made her rich and the other used bankruptcy as a business tool and not paying scores of creditors.
Hardly people to look up to
@Dave Johnston: maybe trumps dad and Kim’s mom were shrewd business people. Donnie and Kim are the products of privilege
@Dave Johnston: I got what you meant….I don’t hold either of them up as figures to be worshiped but I doubt there’s any flies on ‘em either….one is feared for his power and sway and the other has big baps and knows how to apply makeup….sure what more could the modern world want?….
@Dave Johnston: you’ve got it all so wrong
@Dave Johnston: what the ?????????????????????????
There’s another 130k payout due
@thomas patrick: Imagine the lawsuits against JFK if he were in office today.
@Sean Conway: He’d have Caitlyn and rode
@Sean Conway: He’d have Caitlyn and all rode
This is what’s wrong with the world right there. From sex tape to meeting the President who was only made famous from a reality show himself.
@Pippa Maloney: there’s a movie called Idiocracy, it’s set in a dystopian future we’re imbeciles are in charge, everyday it looks more and more like a documentary. I’ve stop trying to make sense of Trump and his administration, it’s off the wall, I feel for your average educated American they must be dying with embarrassment at this stage.
@Trev Mooney: they’ll be watering crops with Gatorade soon, “coz it’s got electrolytes!”
@Trev Mooney: I came here to say this. But you beat me to it. Every bit of that film is being slowly realised before our very eyes. The only part I’m looking forward to is getting to watch Ow My Balls! on TV
Everything that’s wrong with America in one picture. Kim ,Don ,ugh.
Probably thinks they’re related.
Trading the swamp for a beauty mud-bath.
She is obviously bored with shopping and has found a new cause for her igo. Or is her motive an invitation to the summit. Perhaps she can bring Kane as her number one after all seeing as he thinks Donald is his brother and they share the same ‘dragon energy’. Lol
@Marie Gunbay: whats harry kane got to do with this
Kanye running as candidate next time round. The whole lot Trump should be rounded up by the aliens from V put in straight jackets and marched down to the nearest mental institution and locked away for the rest of their days.
@Gareth Cooney: he can count on Roseanne’s vote…if she’s still awake…
Waterford whispers?
Fair play to Kim for using her platform to advocate for this woman and many others.
Its like a nightmarish scene out of Dante’ inferno.
Er, is this really newsworthy?
I do a bit of contrary trump defending but this is a disgrace
Isn’t it amazing how being a ‘ celebrity ‘ can open even the door to the Whitehouse.
That photo of the two of them perfectly sums up what a mess the world is in. Democracy really does have its flaws when the gene pool is dim.
Glad to see Donald is getting serious about prison reform and bringing in the experts….
2 big assess
Carry on trumpo.
At least she covered up for a change… Came well prepared to visit the slime ball in the White house!
@Dotty Dunleary: She became famous because of a sex tape. They’re both slime balls.
Isn’t that the exact spot where Monica was standing when the cigar came out?
@Peter Carroll: Ha, yeah, Cuban wasn’t it?
Sky News earlier “ America’s biggest reality star meets Kim Kardashian at the White House”
Drained himself into the swamp
A nice picture of my two favourite people :P .. Well today can only get better now.
Bigly arse meets bigglier arse!
If I am reading the comments correctly, the implication is that academic intelligence is required to make political decisions. I am not sure what planet you all come from but seriously. I recommend that all watch the series Veep to see how true democracy works…
All these years, all these “politicians” have done nothing to solve the problem. Maybe she happened to show a lot of interest in that area, then why not listen.
Welcome to hell
Ok im calling it…fake news
Really puts the lie to “Four Legs Good, Two Heads Better.” (with apologies to George Orwell.)
It’s mad how much fame one can get from taking it up the shitter and recording it….
Dumb and dumber.
Trump in a few years: I did not have sexual relations with this woman!!!
What ever happened to that lad that would just type “more bollox” under articles like this? I used to enjoy green thumbing that.
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