President Trump informed the daughter of disgraced reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley on Tuesday that he plans to pardon the couple as soon as Wednesday.
“Your parents are going to be free and clean, and I hope we can do it by tomorrow,” Trump told Savannah Chrisley in a phone call from the Oval Office.
“I don’t know them, but give them my regards and wish them a good life,” the president continued, according to a video posted by White House communications adviser Margo Martin.
Todd and Julie, the stars of USA Network’s “Chrisley Knows Best,” were convicted of tax evasion and bank fraud in 2022.
Federal prosecutors accused the couple of submitting fake documents to banks in order to secure more than $30 million in fraudulent loans – which they walked away from after declaring bankruptcy before the start of their reality TV careers.
“The Chrisleys have built an empire based on the lie that their wealth came from dedication and hard work,” federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing ahead of the couple’s November 2022 sentencing in Atlanta. “The jury’s unanimous verdict sets the record straight: Todd and Julie Chrisley are career swindlers who have made a living by jumping from one fraud scheme to another, lying to banks, stiffing vendors, and evading taxes at every corner.”
Todd, 56, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, while Julie, 52, received a seven-year sentence.
Julie has been incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Ky., since January 2023, while Todd has been doing his time FPC Pensacola, in Florida.
Both are minimum security facilities.
“Trump Knows Best!” Martin wrote on X, sharing a video of the president’s call with Savannah, 27.
The younger Chrisley thanked the president for the incoming pardons.
Savannah had discussed her parents’ case during a speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention, charging that Todd and Julie were “persecuted by rogue prosecutors.”
Alex Little, an attorney for the Chrisleys’, said the pardon “corrects a deep injustice and restores two devoted parents to their family and community.”
“President Trump recognized what we’ve argued from the beginning: Todd and Julie were targeted because of their conservative values and high profile. Their prosecution was tainted by multiple constitutional violations and political bias,” Little said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press.
“Todd and Julie’s case is exactly why the pardon power exists. Thanks to President Trump, the Chrisley family can now begin healing and rebuilding their lives,” he added.
“They were given a pretty harsh treatment based on what I’m hearing,” Trump said Tuesday. “Pretty harsh treatment.”
The Chrisleys’ 19-year-old son, Grayson, was also on the call and told Trump that his commencement address at the University of Alabama earlier this month was “the greatest presidential speech I’ve ever heard in my life.”
Grayson is a student at the Tuscaloosa, Ala., school.
“Just congratulate your parents – I hear they are terrific people,” Trump told Savannah and Grayson. “This should not have happened.”
“They have good children.”
Alice Marie Johnson, who was facing life in prison without parole for her involvement in a cocaine distribution ring before being pardoned by Trump in 2018, was in the Oval Office with the president when he made the call and also congratulated the Chrisley children.
