President Donald Trump on Tuesday

said Friday that the experience of being in prison has changed him, vowing to not forget the men he met and befriended there and to work to make their lives better.“You can’t go through what we’ve been through and walk away from it,” he said at a news conference in a Nashville, Tennessee, hotel two days after his release. “As bad as this experience has been, there’s also been a lot of blessings to come from it. I have met some wonderful men. I have listened to some horrific stories about things that have gone on in our system.”

, the “Chrisley Knows Best” star maintained his innocence, sayingwere victims of a corrupt prosecution. He said they will detail the proof of the wrongful conviction in an upcoming television show.“We’re blessed to have our family back, and we’re blessed to be coming back to television because we have a much bigger story to tell now than we ever have,” he said.

Addressing whether his family’s fame and connections helped him and his wife get a pardon from, Chrisley said, “It’s not something you can look at and say that had nothing to do with it. I don’t know if it did or it didn’t.”

His daughter Savannah Chrisley, also speaking at the news conference, was adamant that it was her hard work that won the day. She has been a staunch Trump supporter and endorsed his candidacy while also speaking about her parents in a speech at the Republican National Convention last summer.

Todd Chrisley described the experience of watching his daughter’s work from a distance as being “consumed with pride while at the same time knowing that this is a longshot, because so many people are told, ‘No.’”Additionally, a series of

from the Social Security Administration’s inspector general in March 2023 and July 2024 state that the agency has not established a new system to properly annotate death information in its database, which included roughly 18.9 million Social Security numbers of people born in 1920 or earlier but were not marked as deceased. This does not mean, however, that these individuals were receiving benefits.The agency decided not to update the database because of the cost to do so, which would run upward of $9 million.

states that “almost none of the numberholders discussed in the report currently receive SSA payments.” And, as of September 2015, the agency automatically stops payments to people who are older than 115 years old.Chuck Blahous, a senior research strategist at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, said, “Two cheers for Elon Musk if he can root out and put a stop to improper payments.”