{"id":21671,"date":"2025-06-28T11:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T11:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/21671\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T11:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T11:29:10","slug":"news-of-pardon-made-julie-chrisley-nervous-todd-was-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/21671\/","title":{"rendered":"News of pardon made Julie Chrisley nervous. Todd was cool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Julie and Todd Chrisley were not exactly prepared to learn they had been pardoned by the president<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, most of the news that you get in prison is bad news,\u201d Julie Chrisley told Lara Trump in a family interview set to air Saturday on Fox News Channel. So when she got the good news, her fellow inmates didn\u2019t immediately understand what they were seeing. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re like, \u2018Are you OK?\u2019\u201d Julie said. <\/p>\n

In fact, she hadn\u2019t been 100% OK when she first heard from daughter Savannah that President Trump had signed off on the creme de la creme of get-out-of-jail-free cards.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just busted out crying\u201d when her daughter broke the news, Julie said. \u201cEveryone was looking around, and then I just hung up. I was so nervous that I just hung up.\u201d <\/p>\n

Savannah was the one who appealed to the president to free her parents. During the Republican National Convention, she gave a speech about the \u201crogue prosecutors\u201d<\/a> who put her parents behind bars. <\/p>\n

At least Julie hung up on her daughter and not POTUS. But now the folks around her were asking her if she was OK. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018I am!\u2019\u201d she said, grasping her husband and daughter\u2019s hands as she recalled the moment. \u201cI\u2019m getting out of here!\u201d<\/p>\n

Julie and husband Todd, the Georgia couple who gained fame through \u201cChrisley Knows Best,\u201d the USA Network series that showcased their luxurious lifestyle and zany family dynamic, were back in their bleach-blond glory sitting with two of their five kids, Savannah and son Chase, on Lara Trump\u2019s couch. <\/p>\n

There had been no hair color for the inmates after they were sentenced to 12 years (him) and seven years (her) for tax evasion, conspiracy and wire fraud. He was sent to a federal prison in Pensacola, Fla., while she was doing time in Lexington, Ky. Probation after incarceration awaited them both. The pardons changed all that. <\/p>\n

Todd Chrisley was a little cooler than his wife had been when the news came his way. He was walking through FPC Pensacola when someone stopped him and told him he just got pardoned. <\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018Yeah, OK\u2019 and I just went right on walking,\u201d apparently dismissing what he\u2019d just heard as trash talk. He walked all the way back to his dorm, only to have a corrections officer come by soon after and ask him if he was \u201cgood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018As good as I can be,\u2019\u201d he told Lara Trump with a little snark in his delivery. But the CO was serious.<\/p>\n

The officer told the reality star that he had been pardoned and that he\u2019d been sent to check on Chrisley to make sure he was OK. <\/p>\n

Todd recalled saying, \u201cThey don\u2019t need to be worried about me now! If I\u2019m pardoned, I\u2019m great!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chrisley patriarch also shared how it felt when he saw wife Julie for the first time in 28 months. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I hugged her the first time, it was like I was home. … We have changed,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if we did not change in these 28 months, it would have been wasted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Todd gave it up to the Almighty as well. \u201cGod touched President Trump\u2019s heart,\u201d he said. \u201cGod led the people to advocate for us. And so I\u2019m grateful, because every night I would pray that God would return me home to my children. And he did that, so I\u2019m grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Chrisleys have said they intend to advocate in the future for prisoners who are still behind bars. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy View With Lara Trump,\u201d which includes her full interview with Todd, Julie, Savannah and Chase Chrisley, airs Saturday at 6 p.m. local time (9 p.m. Eastern) on Fox News Channel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julie and Todd Chrisley were not exactly prepared to learn they had been pardoned by the president. \u201cUnfortunately,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[19959,19958,19956,19957,171,15163,9224,19952,19954,50,19955,1561,5207,5332,6620,19953,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-21671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-air-saturday","9":"tag-bar","10":"tag-chrisleys","11":"tag-daughter-savannah","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-god","14":"tag-husband","15":"tag-julie-chrisley","16":"tag-lara-trump","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-pardon","19":"tag-pensacola","20":"tag-president","21":"tag-prison","22":"tag-time","23":"tag-todd","24":"tag-tv","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}