Kim Kardashian West the star is now also the reformer

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For Kardashian West and Trump, was the alliance a risk?

“She’s looking at the bigger picture. She had to work with the administration even if she doesn’t agree with everything he stands for,” Edwards said. “It is a risk for her on one level since a lot of her fans are liberal, a lot of people do not like Donald Trump, but I think a lot of those people now realize we can’t just say that on issues like this.”

Holley has known Kardashian West since she was a child; the star’s late father, Robert Kardashian, was a lawyer who was on O.J. Simpson’s successful defense team in his double murder case, as was Holley. Holley said the Johnson release is just the beginning for her famous client, who paid to retain lawyers in the effort. The two spent about 20 minutes with Trump last week before he took action to free Johnson, but they had put wheels in motion months ago, back in October.

“There were stops and starts,” Holley said of the lead up to her and Kardashian West’s sit down with the president. “There were times we didn’t want to get too pushy but didn’t want to go off the radar. I have no illusions about the fact that we would not have been there without her star power.

She has always been interested in criminal justice. She and I have talked many times over the years about her interest in criminal justice as a whole.”

EW YORK (AP) — As Kim Kardashian West put it to her 60 million-plus followers on Twitter, the call she made to Alice Marie Johnson “will forever be one of my best memories.”