Danny Trejo is sending a stern message to his celebrity pals, along with Kim Kardashian — stop using the Los Angeles wildfires to push your private causes!!!
The actor tells TMZ … he doesn’t contemplate now’s the time for Hollywood’s elite to get on their respective soapboxes to hawk completely totally different causes … notably since brutal blazes are burning all through the realm correct now.
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As he sees it … serving to the victims must be the one actual focus — even when many celebs, such a Kim, are correctly supposed.
He calls out the SKIMs founder particularly … after she chosen to speak out in regards to the low wages inmate firefighters are receiving as they put their lives on the highway.
Danny takes topic with Kim making this case “political” … and he highlights the inmates combatting the fires are receiving totally different constructive elements for his or her service.
Danny — who notably labored as a firefighter all through his time behind bars — explains the inmates, who volunteer to be incarcerated first responders, get time knocked off these sentences.
Kim’s argument is straightforward: the inmates are “heroes” … solely getting paid $1 an hour to battle the big blazes. That meager amount hasn’t modified since 1984 … and an settlement to spice up it $5 an hour was shot down merely sooner than these blazes broke out. She wishes that remedied.
Danny says for these convicted criminals, a lowered sentence is what they care about.
He elements out that a whole lot of the money made by inmates will go in the direction of their restitution … so, it’s unlikely they’re going to see a variety of it even after they did get further dough.
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Danny moreover has a pointed message for any potential arsonists in the marketplace … if any individual is answerable for any of these monstrous infernos, leisure assured they’re going to have a difficult time behind bars.
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He says they’re going to be not solely despised, nonetheless hated perhaps as quite a bit as teen molesters … on account of this generally is a crime of sheer devastation, the place there’s nothing to be gained.