President Trump and Kim Kardashian meet at White House
Days away from a historic summit with North Koreaās mercurial leader, US President Donald Trump held a White House meeting Wednesday with another famous Kim ā reality TV star Kardashian ā to discuss prison reform and sentencing.
The reality star entered the grounds of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue wearing a black suit and canary yellow stilettoes, 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 ā formerly of āThe Apprenticeā and New York tabloid fame.
āGreat meeting with @KimKardashian today, talked about prison reform and sentencing,ā the president said in a tweet, accompanied by a photograph of the pair in the Oval Office, with Trump flashing a broad grin.
Kardashian, 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.
Fixing tough sentencing laws had been a priority of president Barack Obamaās 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 ālock-em-up-and-throw-away-the-keyā 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 Cheneyās former chief of staff Lewis āScooterā Libby.
Last month, Kimās rapper husband Kanye West raised eyebrows after tweeting about his āloveā for Trump and describing him as a ābrotherā with whom he shared ādragon energy.ā
AFP
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