Carole Baskin Warned Me About Joe Exotic. Here’s What ‘Tiger King’ Missed

Credit: Dave Stokes

When I interviewed Carole Baskin for an article years ago, she made clear how she felt about people in the world of big cats. Public reporting of tigers was “based on the honor system,” she told me, “and we’re dealing with a lot of people that are really dishonorable.” She went into detail about one of these people: Joseph Maldonado-Passage, better known as Joe…