Reality TV personality and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian was back at the White House Thursday to discuss pardons of non-violent drug offenders with Vice President Kamala Harris — nearly five years after she stood alongside Donald Trump at a similar clemency event.
The Biden White House hitched their wagon to the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star to promote clemencies for 16 offenders — 11 of whom served prison time and five of whom had their sentences commuted.
In addition to starring on Hulu’s “The Kardashians,” the latest iteration of her family’s long-running reality enterprise, the 43-year-old has juggled co-owning the $4 billion SKIMS clothing brand empire with criminal justice reform lobbying.
“It was actually this very room that I was in years ago, my first clemency meeting, that really inspired me to take a journey of really helping to figure out how I can be helpful and how I can tell the amazing stories that I would hear from the success stories of individuals like yourself,” Kardashian said at a roundtable with Harris and some of those granted clemency.
The celeb teamed up with the Trump White House to promote efforts to ease ex-felons back into the workforce and back the commutation of sentences for four women convicted of non-violent crimes in 2020.
“I didn’t know a whole lot,” added Kardashian, who took four tries to pass California’s First-Year Law Students’ Examination — commonly known as “the baby bar exam” — and announced earlier this year that her dreams of becoming a practicing attorney were “on pause.”
“I was inspired to go to law school and really further my education to see what I can do to help and not rely on these two women behind — who have been coming with me everywhere, my attorneys — to kind of translate everything for me because I really couldn’t grasp what all of this means,” she said.
“I am super honored to be here to share your stories today, and I think it’s so important to share them and amplify them because there’s so many people that are in your position that can use the inspiration.”
Almost all the ex-cons had cocaine or crack convictions over a three-decade period, with at least one also sentenced for methamphetamine distribution and another for heroin possession.
Harris, 59, touted her own record of reducing recidivism and supporting prisoner re-entry initiatives while serving as San Francisco district attorney and later attorney general of California.
Her remarks focused on the Biden administration’s granting clemency for those federally convicted of simple marijuana possession — despite none of them being behind bars.
“We have pardoned all people for federal convictions for simple marijuana possession,” Harris declared, though a recent congressional estimate found about 2,700 people are still incarcerated for pot-related offenses.
“Many of you have heard me say, ‘I just don’t think people should have to go to jail for smoking weed,’” she added — despite overseeing 1,900 pot-related convictions during her DA tenure, according to a 2019 analysis by the San Jose Mercury News.
The administration’s pardoning of 6,500 Americans with simple marijuana possession convictions in 2022 only included people who were no longer in prison.
Kardashian’s ex-husband Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, was an early supporter of Trump’s presidency.
Kardashian, meanwhile, promoted the Republican’s First Step Act and helped secure the pardon of Alice Johnson, a black woman who was sentenced to life for a non-violent drug offense.
Johnson’s story was highlighted in a Trump re-election campaign ad during the Super Bowl in February 2020, and she later delivered a speech at that year’s Republican National Convention as a Trump surrogate.
Though Kardashian never confirmed who she voted for, she posted three blue hearts on Twitter, now X, next to a picture of Biden and Harris when the race was called on Nov. 7, 2020.
She would later petition Trump to support further clemencies after leaving office, to which the former president reportedly shot back, “Hell no … You voted for Biden and now you come asking me for a favor?”
The Trump campaign has denied the exchange ever happened after it was first reported in ABC News journalist Jonathan Karl’s book “Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party.”
The tome also spilled details about Trump purportedly agreeing to several sentence commutations if Kardashian “leveraged her celebrity connections to get football stars who were friends of hers to come visit him at the White House.”