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Former professional boxer Duke Tanner remembers witnessing a murder of his first day in prison in 2004.
“I saw the guy go out of the device where the blood is sipping out of his throat. He fell on the floor and ended up dying later,” Tanner told Pakinomist Digital and remembered his thoughts at the time.
“‘It’s my new environment. I had to survive. I won’t die in here. I don’t want to be him.'”
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He wounded in prison after being caught in a drug trafficking operation while trying to make additional money for his family.
“I thought it was a robbery at first. So when I saw it was the police, I was really at peace,” he said.
He was sentenced to two conditions of life, completed his boxing career and separates him from his family, including his son, who was just 2 at the time, for 16 years. He dedicated his time in prison to embrace Christianity and record any rehabilitation program available.
And Tanner remembers the night of 2018 when he realized that President Donald Trump would end his verdict early.
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“I had a dream and I woke up,” Tanner said. “I started writing a letter once a week to the White House after I had that dream, and two years later I was escaped.”
After being denied mentioned by former President Barack Obama in 2016, Tanner was awarded drug addict by Trump in 2020. In May, the former boxer was awarded a presidential pardon. Tanner visited the White House to thank Trump in person.
“I got thanks to him and he remembered my case. And he said, ‘Man, you had a bad road but you got a beautiful son. I hear that you are doing great things. And continuing the good work. I see you,'” Tanner said.
Former boxer Duke Tanner was awarded a drug by President Donald Trump in 2020 and awarded a presidential pardon last month. (Courtesy of Duke Tanner)
In August, Tanner published a book, “Duke got life: a boxer’s struggle for freedom and a last shot of redemption,” detailed his story.
Weeks after Tanner received his presidential pardon, Trump fled the idea of giving a presidential pardon to hip-hop artist Sean “Diddy” while in trial for sex trade.
Tanner, who admits he has not followed the “Diddy” case closely and is not “on Liberty” to discuss the rapper’s charges, revealed how he would feel about the idea of getting a pardon from Trump.
“This administration will read every piece of paperwork. They’re going to get to the facts. They’ll get to the bottom of everything. And if he decides to make that step, it’s a positive step because he went through the system,” Tanner said, referring to Trump’s criminal trial last summer over alleged hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
“He knows what they were doing against him to try to make him a convicted criminal, to make him be found guilty of all these counts. So he knows the prosecution is being disproportionate. He knows how they do it. He knows it’s a broken system.”
Tanner also suggested that Trump’s pardon is a means of keeping those involved in the criminal system accountable.
“And he tries to show them, ‘You guys make your job right, or I’m going to come and arrange it for you and bother you,'” Tanner added.
“So with that said, if he decides to do it, he obviously saw something and he got the best lawyers around him. … I’m not free to even talk about [the Diddy trial]. I don’t know what’s going on. I’m just saying I don’t care who it was. If the president said he would do it, believe me, there is a reason behind it and that the law was not handled properly. ”
Tanner said he knows a lot of other people who are imprisoned that he thinks deserves drug addiction.
Duke Tanner with Donald Trump (Courtesy of Duke Tanner)
“I definitely know that there are so many men and women who need a drug addict to be released from the system,” Tanner said.
Tanner has already witnessed another president who gives a number of controversial pardens in the last year. Former President Joe Biden awarded a number of pardens before leaving the office in December, including to his son Hunter Biden, who was to be convicted of federal gun and tax oversight.
“I heard about it. He released his son,” Tanner said. “It can never be comparable to my own because he never went to jail. He was never once indicated. I did 16 years, six months and 21 days, taken away from my 2-year-old son. … he can never compare to the pain I went through. And then I came home still fought for other people.
“What’s there [Hunter] done? Have we even heard from him since he pardoned? Did he even talk about it? Did he even deal with his father about it? So we can never compare such a guy with me. ”
Still, Tanner said he is not offended by Hunter Bite’s pardon.
Trump’s Ministry of Justice reviews the list of people assigned to pardon by former President Joe Biden in response to new concerns about the bite’s use of an auto to automatically sign documents and concerns about his state of mind in his last months in office, Pakinomist reported Digital earlier.
Tanner refused to comment on the investigation.
The former boxer is focused on continuing to perform community service and helping his 19-year-old nephew become a future boxing world champion.
