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Former professional boxer Duke Tanner remembers witness a murder on his first day in prison in 2004.
“I looked at the guy getting out of the unity, the blood infiltrates his neck. He fell on the ground and ended up dying later,” Tanner told PK Press Club Digital, recalling his thoughts at the time.
“‘This is my new environment. I have to survive. I’m not going to die here. I’m not going to be him.'”
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He ended up in prison after being taken in a drug trafficking bite while trying to earn additional money for his family.
“I thought it was a flight at first. So when I saw that they were cops, I was really at peace,” he said.
He was sentenced to two life mandates, ending his boxing career and separating him from his family, including his son, who was only 2 years old at the time, for 16 years. He spent his time in prison to embrace Christianity and take up each available rehabilitation program.
And Tanner remembers the night in 2018 when he realized that President Donald Trump would end his sentence early.
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“I had a dream and I woke up,” said Tanner. “I started writing a letter once a week at the White House after having this dream, and, two years later, I was dropped.”
After being refused the leniency by former president Barack Obama in 2016, Tanner obtained the leniency by Trump in 2020. In May, the former boxer obtained presidential pardon. Tanner visited the White House to thank Trump in person.
“I have to thank him, and he remembered my case. And he said,” Dude, you have a bad road, but you have a step son. I heard you do great things. And continue the right job. I look at you “, said Tanner.
Former boxer Duke Tanner obtained leniency by President Donald Trump in 2020 and gave presidential forgiveness last month. (Thanks to Duke Tanner)
In August, Tanner published a book, “Duke Got Life: A Boxer Fight for Freedom and One Last Shot to Redemption”, detailing his story.
A few weeks after Tanner received his presidential forgiveness, Trump launched the idea of making a presidential forgiveness for the Hip-Hop Sean “Diiddy” artist when he is tried for sex traffic.
Tanner, who admits that he did not closely follow the case “Diddy” and is not “liberty” to discuss the charges of the rapper, revealed what he would feel about the idea that the combs obtain a forgiveness of Trump.
“This administration will read each piece of paperwork. They will arrive at the facts. They will go to the bottom of everything. And if he decides to make this movement, it is a positive decision, because he crossed the system,” said Tanner, referring to the criminal trial of Trump last summer on an alleged money of hunting for adult cinema Stormy Daniels.
“He knows what they did to try to make him a condemned criminal, to make him found guilty of all these charges. So he knows misconduct. He knows how they do it. He knows that it is a broken system.”
Tanner also suggested that Trump’s pardons are a way to hold people involved in the responsible criminal justice system.
“And he tries to show them:” You do a job well, or I will come and repair it for you and embarrass you “, added Tanner.
“So, that being said, if he decides to do it, he obviously saw something, and he obtained the best lawyers around him. … I am not freedom even to speak of [the Diddy trial]. I don’t know what’s going on. I just say that I don’t care who it was. If the president said he wanted to do it, believe me, there is a reason behind this and that the law was not managed correctly. “”
Tanner said he knew many other imprisoned people who, according to him, deserve the leniency.
Duke Tanner with Donald Trump (Thanks to Duke Tanner)
“I really know that there are so many men and women who need the leniency to be released from the system,” said Tanner.
Tanner has already seen another president give a series of controversial pardons in the past year. Former president Joe Biden granted a series of pardons before leaving his duties in December, notably to his son Hunter Biden, who was to be sentenced for federal firearms and tax convictions.
“I heard about it. He released his son,” said Tanner. “It can never be comparable to mine because he never went to prison. He has never even been charged. I have been 16 years old, six months and 21 days, removed from my 2 year old son. He can never compare himself to the pain I went through. And then I went home while fighting for other people.
“What is [Hunter] do? Have we even heard of him since he got forgiveness? Did he even speak about it? Did he even thanked his father? So we can never compare a guy like that. “”
However, Tanner said he was not offended by the forgiveness of Hunter Biden.
Trump’s Ministry of Justice reviews the list of persons granted by the grace of former president Joe Biden in response to new concerns concerning the use by Biden of an autopen to automatically sign documents and concerns about his state of mind in his last months in power, reported PK Press Club Digital previously.
Tanner refused to comment on the investigation.
The former boxer focuses on the continuation of the community service and to help his 19 -year -old nephew to become a future world boxing champion.
