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Trump's Final Hours in Office Were Consumed With Fury at Snoop Dogg
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
In late 2020 and early 2021, Snoop Dogg secretly worked to influence the White House on executive clemency for federal prisoners — including for the rapper’s close friend and Death Row Records figure, Michael “Harry-O” Harris.
Near the end of Trump’s administration, Snoop Dogg and several others had been working diligently behind the scenes for weeks to secure a presidential commutation for Death Row Records co-founder and ex-kingpin Harry-O.
“I don’t give a fuck, I tell ’em straight up, motherfucker: If you like that nigga, you motherfuckin’ racist,” Snoop Dogg said about Trump, his MAGA fans, and the president’s pal Kanye West in 2018.
That paragraph caught the attention of certain individuals and administration officials close to Trump, several of whom were extremely skeptical of his past embrace of moderate criminal justice reforms and some of the clemencies he had granted in his term.
“I was aware that the [Daily Beast] article caused a problem for Mr. Harris’ clemency petition, and I was asked by someone close to the White House to send a clip of a previously recorded message from Snoop where he commended Trump’s efforts on criminal justice reform,” Angelos confirmed to Rolling Stone.
Among those listed were Harris (who received a commuted sentence), Trump’s former top strategist and White House adviser Steve Bannon, rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black, and former prominent Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy.
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