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The former professional boxer Duke Tanner remembers witnessing a murder on his first day in prison in 2004.
“I saw the guy leave the unit, the blood leaking his neck. He fell to the floor and ended up dying later,” Tanner told Pak Gazette Digital, remembering his thoughts at that time.
“‘It’s my new environment. I have to survive. I’m not going to die here. I’m not going to be him.'”
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He ended up in jail after being trapped in a drug trafficking sting while trying to earn additional money for his family.
“I thought it was a robbery at the beginning. So, when I saw that I was police, I was really at peace,” he said.
He was sentenced to two terms of life, ending his career in boxing and separating him from his family, including his son, who was only 2 years old at that time, for 16 years. He dedicated his time in prison to embrace Christianity and occupy each available rehabilitation program.
And Tanner remembers the night in 2018 when he realized that President Donald Trump would be the one who would end his sentence.
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“I had a dream and woke up,” Tanner said. “I started writing a letter once a week to the White House after having that dream, and, two years later, they let me go.”
After former President Barack Obama denied clemency in 2016, Trump granted Tanner to Clemency in 2020. In May, the former boxer was awarded a presidential forgiveness. Tanner visited the White House to thank Trump in person.
“I came to thank him, and he remembered my case. And he said: ‘Man, you had a bad path, but you have a beautiful son. I heard you are doing great things. And the good job continues. I’m looking at you,” Tanner said.
Former boxer Duke Tanner received clemency by President Donald Trump in 2020 and granted presidential forgiveness last month. (Courtesy of Duke Tanner)
In August, Tanner published a book, “Duke Got Life: A Boxer’s Fight for Freedom and One Last Sotting to Redemption,” detailing his story.
Weeks after Tanner received his presidential forgiveness, Trump floated the idea of giving a presidential forgiveness to the Hip-Hop artist Sean “Diddy” while he is in trial for sexual trafficking.
Tanner, who admits that he has not followed the case of “Diddy” closely and is not “free” to discuss the charges of the rapper, revealed how he would feel about the idea that the combs receive a forgiveness from Trump.
“This administration will read each piece of paperwork. They will reach the events. They will reach the bottom of everything. And if you decide to make that movement, it is a positive movement, because it went through the system,” Tanner said, referring to Trump’s criminal trial last summer about the alleged money of the adult film star Daniels.
“He knows what they did to try to make him a convict, so that he is convicted of all those positions. Then, he knows the misconduct of the prosecution. He knows how they do it. He knows it is a broken system.”
Tanner also suggested that Trump’s forgives are a means to hold those involved in the criminal justice system.
“And he is trying to show you: ‘You do the job well, or I will go and fix it and embarrass it,” Tanner added.
“Then, with that, if he decides to do it, he obviously saw something, and obtained the best lawyers around him … I am not free to talk about [the Diddy trial]. I don’t know what is happening. I just say that I don’t care who it was. If the president said he wanted to do it, believe me, there is a reason behind this and that the law was not handled correctly. ”
Tanner said he meets many other imprisoned people whom he believes that they deserve clemency.
Duke Tanner with Donald Trump (Courtesy of Duke Tanner)
“I definitely know that there are so many men and women who need clemency to get out of the system,” Tanner said.
Tanner has already witnessed that another president gives a series of pardons controversial in the last year. Former President Joe Biden granted a series of pardons before leaving office in December, including his son Hunter Biden, who had to be sentenced by federal condemnations of weapons and taxes.
“I heard about that. He released his son,” Tanner said. “It can never be comparable to mine because he never went to prison. He was never accused. I made 16 years, six months and 21 days, I took away my 2 -year -old son … He can never compare the pain I passed. And then I arrived home still fighting for other people.
“What he has [Hunter] made? Have we had his news since he received forgiveness? Did you even talk about it? Did you even thank your father about it? So, we can never compare a boy like that for me. ”
Even so, Tanner said he is not offended by the forgiveness of Hunter Biden.
The Trump Department of Justice is reviewing the list of people granted by former President Joe Biden in response to new concerns about the use of Biden of an automatic pilot to automatically sign documents and concerns about his mental state in his last months in office, Pak Gazette Digital previously reported.
Tanner declined to comment on the investigation.
The former boxer focuses on continuing to do community service and helping his 19 -year -old nephew to become a future boxing world champion.
