Now George Papadopoulos' wife is going on Fox News to plead for a Trump pardon

Tucker Carlson and Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos.
(Image credit: Screenshot/Twitter/FoxNews)

Presidential pardons are all the rage these days, and George Papadopoulos is hopping on the bandwagon.

Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, the wife of the disgraced former adviser to President Trump, was asked on Monday's Tucker Carlson Tonight if she thinks her husband is going to prison. She was quick to reaffirm how "dedicated and committed" her husband was to the Trump campaign, and said that his loyalty should have earned him a pardon from the president.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.