Kim Kardashian returns to the White House for Kamala Harris roundtable (2024)

Kim Kardashian will return to the White House Thursday to participate in a roundtable with Vice President Kamala Harris to highlight President Joe Biden's recent pardons.

Axios first reported that the reality star will appear at the afternoon event.

It will mark her first trip to 1600 Pennsylvania during the Biden administration - after lobbying former President Donald Trumpon criminal justice reform during his tenure in office.

The invitation could come ahead of a potential endorsem*nt from Kardashian, though that could also complicate the Biden campaign's courting of pop star Taylor Swift, as Kardashian and Swift are in a longtime feud.

Kardashian arrives in D.C. two days before the White House Correspondents' Dinner - an event she's attended frequently over the years.

She last came to the annual dinner in 2022 - alongside then boyfriend Pete Davidson.

On Wednesday Biden granted clemency to 16 people who were conviced of non-violent drug crimes as part of 'Second Chance Month.'

Harris' roundtable will include four of the people who received clemency, Axios reported.

Kardashian became part of the Trump orbit when she visited the White House in May 2018 to lobby the then-president to pardon Alice Johnson, a black woman who was serving a life in prison sentence over a non-violent drug-related offense.

That June, Trump commuted the sentence of Johnson - and later granted her a full pardon in August 2020, just months before the presidential election.

In turn, Johnson became a surrogate for Trump's reelection campaign and delivered a speech at that summer's Republican National Convention, which was staged in Washington due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

During this same time period, Trump soured on Kardashian - who has never publicly said who she voted for in the 2020 presidential race.

In November, Trump referred to Kardashian as'the World's most overrated celebrity.'

Trump was angered by an anecdote in ABC News' Jonathan Karl's book, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party, that said the then-president had asked Kardashian for help attracting 'football stars.'

In the waning days of his administration, Kardashian - who was working to get non-violent offenders out of prison - had asked Trump to commute more sentences, as he had done after their highly publicized Oval Office meeting in 2018.

A source told Karl that 'Trump listened to her requests and demanded a straight-up quid pro quo.'

'He would grant the commutations, he told Kardashian, if she leveraged her celebrity connections to get football stars who were friends of hers to come visit him at the White House,' the ABC News reporter wrote.

'Kardashian actually tried to do what Trump demanded, seeing it as a small price to pay to get justice for people she believed were serving unjust sentences. But all the players she approached declined,' Karl said. 'Trump had become too toxic. In the final two weeks of his presidency, nobody wanted to be anywhere near him.'

In a Truth Social post, Trump dubbed Karl a 'Failed ABC Fake News repoter' adding that he 'works sooo hard, but has sooo little talent.'

'In the "book" he has the World's most overrated celebrity, Kim Kardashian, supposedly telling me that she "would leverage her celebrity to get football stars to come to the White House," if I would commute the sentences of various prisoners,' Trump wrote. 'This story is Fake News in that she would be the last person I asked to get football players.'

Trump then boasted that he had 'many teams from all sports and leagues, in the White House.'

Kardashian never explicitly said she was a Biden supporter, though posted a picture of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris with three blue hearts after the Democrats won election over Trump in 2020.

While Trump said on Truth Social that there were 'many other false stories in Karl's very boring book' the journalist did report that Trump was angry with Kardashian's Biden support.

Months after Trump left the White House, Kardashian reached out to him to see if he would be open to endorsing a high-profile clemency plea.

She 'quickly received a call back from Trump,' Karl wrote.

'Hell no, theformer president told her. He wouldn't do it. "You voted for Biden and now you come asking me for a favor?" Trump told her,' the ABC newsman said. 'After a few more choice words, the line went dead. Trump had hung up on her.'