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Kim Kardashian Opens Upward About Arguing Over Kanye's MAGA Hat and Whether She Has Her Ain Political Ambitions

"Looking back I thought, 'Why should he take that off if that'southward what he believes in? Why can't he wear that on Goggle box? ' " Kardashian asked on the Honestly With Bari Weiss podcast

Kim Kardashian is speaking out about the controversy stirred past her estranged husband'south support for Sometime President Donald Trump.

In an interview on theHonestly with Bari Weiss podcast, the 41-year-onetime Kardashian referenced one particular instance — when Kanye West donned a donned a carmine "Make America Great Over again" hat for much of his October 2018 appearance on Saturday Night Alive.

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"You know what? I was very nervous. I didn't want him to clothing the red hat on SNL," Kardashian said. "And I kind of — non I kind of — I didn't understand it at the time."

Kardashian continued: "I'm not actually a rule-breaker and so my personality would be similar, 'Okay, yous guys don't like the cherry hat, I'll take it off.' "

Kanye, all the same, was unmoved, with Kardashian saying he said he wouldn't get on set unless he wore the lid.

"And I'm very neutral but I was very — that night, I was very forceful with him and arguing with him about, you know, 'You accept to have that hat off.' "

Forceful equally she may have been, looking back, the reality star says she is regretful of her attempts to have him remove the hat.

"And now, looking back I thought, 'Why should he accept that off if that's what he believes in? Why tin can't he clothing that on Television receiver? Half of the country voted for [Trump] then clearly other people like him also," Kardashian continued. "I learned a lot from that situation and no matter what, it taught me to be a little chip more empathetic for people that but want to practice what they want to practice, and freedom of spoken communication — and if you want to wear the lid, wearable the hat."

Kardashian told Weiss she respects that West — who now goes by "Ye" — "knew exactly what he believed in and always stood by that."

"And that to me is a adept quality to have — no matter who is against you and no matter what the circumstances are, I call back that it's just like admirable ... fifty-fifty if it'due south not what I concord with or fifty-fifty if I would have done it differently, I think it's commendable," she added.

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Kim Kardashian and Alice Marie Johnson

Fresh off the heels of passing the babe bar exam, Kardashian — a mom-of-4 whose mode company SKIMS is worth some $ane.6 billion — is now on the route to becoming a lawyer.

That detour — from entertainment and fashion, to law — came every bit a result of Kardashian's interest in charity cases, she told Weiss, including that of Alice Marie Johnson, a great-grandmother who was serving a life sentence despite beingness a irenic drug offender.

Kardashian ultimately successfully petitioned former President Trump to commute Johnson's sentence by working with his daughter, Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner.

"My start telephone call was to Ivanka Trump ... and she was so emphatic and understood and said, 'Why don't yous talk to my husband Jared?' And I brought him the instance," Kardashian said. "And it took him a few months. He actually researched it and got the president backside it and he granted her charity and eventually gave her a pardon."

Kardashian was criticized for working with the former president to convince him to grant Johnson charity, though she told Weiss the efforts were well worth it.

"I really don't care well-nigh the criticism," she said. "My reputation over someone's life? Destroy me, then, I really don't intendance. It was not even an option. And he did the right thing. I'chiliad only about doing the right thing and I'one thousand not actually almost politics at all."

As for whether she has her ain political leanings, Kardashian said she falls somewhere in the middle.

"I believe in the rights that the Democrats want, but I believe in the taxes that the Republicans desire," she said. "I'm a mix of both."

And while having relationships with politicians and a desire to fight for justice might seem similar a recipe for launching her own campaign anytime, Kardashian told Weiss "no" when asked if she has plans to run for office any time soon.

"Equally of right at present, no. I sympathize the responsibility, and information technology's an extremely difficult job, and I don't know if I'd e'er want that."

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Source: https://people.com/politics/kim-kardashian-opens-up-about-kanyes-maga-hat-and-whether-she-has-her-own-political-ambitions/

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