Donald Trump Asked Kim Kardashian To Help Him Meet Football Players

Former President Donald Trump once asked Kim Kardashian to get football players to visit him at the White House in exchange for him commuting the prison sentences of inmates per her request, it has been alleged in a new book.

Kardashian met with Trump at the White House on numerous occasions. In May 2018, the reality star successfully petitioned the then-president to commute the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent drug offender.

Johnson is a former federal prisoner who had been convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole for her involvement in a cocaine trafficking organization. Trump commuted Johnson's sentence in 2018 and pardoned her in 2020.

ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl claims in his newly released book, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party, that when Kardashian pushed for more commutations in the final days of Trump's single term as president, he responded with a request.

"A source familiar with the conversations tells me Trump listened to her requests and demanded a straight-up quid pro quo," reads an excerpt obtained by Axios. "He would grant the commutations, he told Kardashian, if she leveraged her celebrity connections to get football stars who were friends of hers to come visit him at the White House."

According to Karl, whose book is the third in his Trump trilogy, Kardashian allegedly attempted to meet the then-president's request, which proved to be a tough task.

"Kardashian actually tried to do what Trump demanded, seeing it as a small price to pay to get justice for people she believed were serving unjust sentences," reads the excerpt. "But all the players she approached declined. Trump had become too toxic. In the final two weeks of his presidency, nobody wanted to be anywhere near him."

Karl also claims in his book that criminal justice reform advocate and law student Kardashian reached out to Trump via his team at Mar-a-Lago once he was out of office to request his endorsement on another clemency plea.

After she "quickly received a call back from Trump," however, Kardashian learned that she would not be getting his help, according to Karl.

"Hell no, the former president told her," Karl wrote. "He wouldn't do it. 'You voted for [Joe] Biden and now you come asking me for a favor?' Trump told her.

"Kardashian has never publicly said who she voted for in 2020, but after Biden was projected the winner, she posted a tweet of Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris along with three blue hearts."

The excerpt reads that after "a few more choice words, the line went dead. Trump had hung up on her."

Responding to the claims made in the book, a Trump spokesperson told Axios: "Disgraceful and talentless John [Karl] is a back-bencher who could never get his own show for obvious reasons. Excerpts previously released from this 'book' have already been thoroughly debunked."

"This filth either belongs in the discount bargain bin in the fiction section of the bookstore or should be repurposed as toilet paper," the statement concluded.

Newsweek has contacted representatives of Trump and Kardashian via email for comment.

Kardashian has spoken in the past about her work with Trump. In January 2019, Kardashian publicly expressed her gratitude to Trump for signing the First Step Act, which enabled Matthew Charles, who had spent 21 years behind bars, to be freed from prison.

The law reduced mandatory minimum sentences in certain cases. It also expanded the ability for prisoners to earn shorter sentences through good behavior.

She posted a thank-you message to Trump on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, crediting the accomplishment to "true bipartisanship."

In June 2019, Kardashian visited the White House again, to announce a partnership with Lyft to hand out gift cards to reformed criminals, to help them get to and from job interviews.

The following year, in March 2020, Kardashian shared the news that Trump had reduced the prison sentences of three incarcerated women.

"President Trump commuted the sentences of three really deserving women. I didn't hear much about it in the news, so I wanted to share with you their stories!" Kardashian posted on X.

"I have the pleasure of spending the day with these women today along with Alice Marie Johnson, who helped to pick these women."