Overview

• Todd and Julie Chrisley were convicted in 2022 of orchestrating a more than $30 million bank fraud scheme and filing false tax documents; they began serving their 12- and 7-year sentences in January 2023.
• In a White House-released video of an Oval Office call, Trump told the couple’s daughter Savannah that he hoped to have her “parents free and clean” by the following day.
• Savannah Chrisley earlier campaigned publicly for clemency, speaking at the 2024 Republican National Convention and lobbying White House officials on her parents’ behalf.
• Alice Johnson, whom Trump appointed as his pardon czar, joined the president on the call, marking the clemency as part of a series of high-profile pardons.
• Democrats criticized the decision as an abuse of presidential power, while the Chrisleys’ lawyer called it a restoration of justice for a family he described as targeted for their conservative values.