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- Todd and Julie Chrisley person reunited 2 years aft turning themselves successful to national prison
- The mates was initially sentenced to a mixed 19 years down bars successful 2022 connected charges of taxation evasion and slope fraud
- On May 27, President Donald Trump issued them afloat pardons, and they were released nan adjacent day.
Todd and Julie Chrisley are together again.
The couple, who person been joined since 1996, came face-to-face for nan first clip successful 2 years connected Thursday, May 29, a time aft being released from abstracted national prisons. Their girl Savannah Chrisley took to her Instagram Stories to stock nan moment, capturing a discreet image of Todd and Julie’s legs arsenic they sat facing each other.
“Reunited and it feels truthful good!” publication an icon she put complete nan photo.
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The reunion comes conscionable 2 days aft President Donald Trump announced that he was issuing nan Chrisley Knows Best stars a afloat pardon for their 2022 condemnation of taxation and slope fraud.
"It's a unspeakable thing, but it's a awesome thing, because your parents are going to beryllium free and clean," a video showed Trump telling the Chrisley children during a telephone telephone connected May 27. "I dream we tin do it by tomorrow. ... I don't cognize them, but springiness them my regards and wish them a bully luck."
He besides noted that Todd and Julie were "given a beautiful harsh treatment, based connected what I'm hearing."
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The adjacent day, nan pardon was officially signed and nan brace were released.
“I americium conscionable truthful grateful that I americium gonna time off present pinch my dad,” Savannah, 27, said arsenic she waited extracurricular nan Florida facility wherever her dada was being held, noting that she had been waiting since “2 a.m. past night.”
The video, obtained by TMZ, showed nan reality prima successful an each pinkish outfit, which included a “Make America Great Again” apical and matching trucker chapeau pinch Trump’s sanction connected both.
That aforesaid day, her 19-year-old brother, Grayson Chrisley, traveled to Kentucky to pick up their mother.
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Todd and Julie were indicted successful August 2019 and recovered blameworthy successful 2022, erstwhile they were sentenced to a mixed 19 years successful situation (although it was reduced successful September 2023). They person been appealing their lawsuit ever since.
While Todd’s entreaty was upheld, Julie's was initially granted owed to insufficient evidence. However, a judge later ruled that her original reward was sufficient.
When asked really her parents reacted to nan news, Savannah revealed: “They didn’t judge it. It conscionable came retired of nowhere.”
“Over nan past 24 hours, I’ve gotten truthful overmuch emotion and truthful overmuch hate, and I’ve had group say, ‘Hmm, I wonderment what she had to do to get this pardon,’” she later added. “I didn’t person to do thing different than guidelines patient successful my beliefs and my convictions and conflict for my parents and conflict for what was right.”
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Hours later, Savannah posted nan first glimpse of her dada connected his measurement location pinch a short clip of his bicep.
"What are you trying to get maine to do?" she asked Todd arsenic she kept his look retired of shot.
"Feel that muscle," he replied arsenic he held retired his limb and she touched it, exclaiming, "Oh yeah, consciousness nan muscle! I'm not gonna lie, it's hard."
"Todd is jacked," Todd added.