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Have a wonderful life!\"\u003cbr/\u003e              And \"BEST NEWS EVER!!!!\" was the exuberant Twitter response from Kardashian West, who visited the White House last week to press the case.\u003cbr/\u003e              Johnson, 63, spent more than two decades serving life without parole. She was released hours after the White House announced that Trump had commuted her sentence, running to greet her family with her arms opened wide for a group hug outside the federal prison in Aliceville, Alabama.\u003cbr/\u003e              On Thursday morning, she told the Associated Press that she plans to make her freedom count.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I feel that I owe that to the people who I left behind because they, their voices have not been magnified the way that my voice is. So, I'm going to work hard to make a difference and I hope that as people see my success story back into society it will help others to be set free.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              As for Kardashian West, Johnson said, \"Kim, I love you. Thank you. You have literally saved my life. I'll never forget what you have done, not only for me, but for my family.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Unlike a pardon, the commutation will not erase Johnson's conviction, only end her sentence.\u003cbr/\u003e              Trump's decision, his latest inspired by a celebrity champion, comes amid a flurry of recent pardons he's issued. He says he's considering a long list of other clemency actions, including former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who is serving 14 years in prison for corruption, and celebrity homemaker Martha Stewart, who served about five months on charges connected to an insider trading case.\u003cbr/\u003e              Working outside the pardon process usually overseen by the Justice Department, Trump has appeared to favor cases championed by friends, celebrities or conservative media, or involve people he sees as rivals. Trump also has been drawn to cases in which he believes prosecutors may have been motivated by politics — situations that may remind him of his own predicament at the center of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling.\u003cbr/\u003e              Trump recently pardoned conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza, who was convicted of a campaign finance violation. And he granted a posthumous pardon to boxing's first black heavyweight champion, a case championed by actor Sylvester Stallone. The federal prosecutor who oversaw Stewart's case in New York was James Comey, one of Trump's principal antagonists, and the man he fired as FBI director last year.\u003cbr/\u003e              Some have seen the pardons as sending a message to former campaign aides now ensnared in the Mueller probe or other legal inquiries, including Trump's longtime lawyer and legal \"fixer\" Michael Cohen, whose finances are under federal investigation.\u003cbr/\u003e              Indeed, the wife of former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his Russia contacts, appeared on Fox News this week to lobby her husband's case.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I trust and hope and ask to President Trump to pardon him,\" Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos told Trump's favorite network.\u003cbr/\u003e              Trump is looking at cases where he can bring \"relief to folks who he feels have been 'treated unfairly,' a term the president uses frequently to describe many different situations,\" top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said Wednesday.\u003cbr/\u003e              Shawn Holley, Kardashian West's attorney who accompanied her to the White House, said the reality star broke the good news Wednesday in \"the most wonderful, emotional and amazing phone call with Alice, Kim and Alice's lawyers.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Once Alice's family joined the call, the tears never stopped flowing,\" Holley said in a statement.\u003cbr/\u003e              Kardashian West, on Twitter, said \"Telling her for the first time and hearing her screams while crying together is a moment I will never forget.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              A White House statement said Johnson \"has accepted responsibility for her past behavior\" and had been a model prisoner, working hard to rehabilitate herself and serve as a mentor to fellow inmates.\u003cbr/\u003e              Johnson was convicted in 1996 on eight criminal counts related to a Memphis-based cocaine trafficking operation involving more than a dozen people. The 1994 indictment describes dozens of deliveries and drug transactions, many involving Johnson.\u003cbr/\u003e              Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, rejected her appeals. Prosecutors opposed a pending reduction in her sentence, citing federal guidelines based on the large quantity of drugs involved\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee, 7 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Johnson, Released from Federal Prison: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I'd like to say Kim, I love you, thank you, you have literally saved my life and I'll never forget what you have done not only for me but for my family. Thank you.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              FILE: Washington, D.C., 30 May 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              2 . Still image - Kim Kardashian West arrives with her attorney Shawn Chapman Holley at the security entrance of the White House \u003cbr/\u003e              3. Still image - Kim Kardashian West arrives with her attorney Shawn Chapman Holley at the security entrance of the White House \u003cbr/\u003e              4. Still image - Kim Kardashian West, second from left, leaves the West Wing of the White House with her attorney Shawn Chapman Holley, left\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Still image - Kim Kardashian West, second from left, leaves the West Wing of the White House with her attorney Shawn Chapman Holley, left\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              FILE: Moon Township, Pennsylvania, 10 March 2018 /New York, 15 May 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Still image - Combination photo shows President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Moon Township, Pa., on March 10, 2018, left, and Kim Kardashian West at the NBCUniversal Network 2017 Upfront in New York on May 15, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              FILE: New York, 4 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              7 . SOUNDBITE (English) Kim Kardashian West/Reality TV Star: - on how confident she feels about imprisoned grandmother Alice Johnson and whether she'll be released:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I'm just hopeful. I'm just hopeful.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Reporter: \"Have you had contact with her since you spoke to the president?\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Kim Kardashian West: \"I have, yes.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee, 7 June 2018   \u003cbr/\u003e              8. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Johnson, Released from Federal Prison: \"Honestly, my first of emotions when I — I'll never forget having that door slammed shut behind me and knowing that freedom had just been cut off. It took me just a moment, but I realized that I had to, I had to get a grip on my emotions, and I decided to turn it around and make the best of this situation because I refused to allow anything to take my life. So, I decided to live my life still.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              9. STILL IMAGE- Alice Johnson and daughter Katina Marie Scales\u003cbr/\u003e              10. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Johnson, Released from Federal Prison: \"When I saw my family, it became real to me. To see them waiting and smiling and ready to embrace me, I took off running. I was so happy.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              11. STILL IMAGE- Alice Johnson and daughter Katina Marie Scales\u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Johnson, Released from Federal Prison: \"Big party, my family assembled that party so fast. I had family I had never seen and family that I had not seen in almost 22 years who were there. They just kicked in, and this was, a lot of it was home-cooked food, so as soon as they got the news they kicked inane started preparing to receive me.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              13. STILL IMAGE- Alice Johnson\u003cbr/\u003e              14. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Johnson, Released from Federal Prison: \"I've taken so many classes. I've gotten certifications in things like electrical to prepare myself for, if I wanted to do electrical work, I could. I'm a personal trainer. I'm a hospice, I've got hospice certification. I've got certifications in all types of office equipment. I still looked toward the day that I would get out of prison. I did not want to walk out and be clueless and not be prepared to enter back into the workforce.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              15. STILL IMAGE- Alice Johnson and attorney Michael Scholl\u003cbr/\u003e              16. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Johnson, Released from Federal Prison: \"I feel that I owe that to the people who I left behind because they, their voices have not been magnified the way that my voice is. So, I'm going to work hard to make a difference and I hope that as people see my success story back into society it will help others to be set free.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              17. 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