Todd Chrisley jokes about prison as he reunites with daughter Savannah

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Hours after Todd Chrisley was released from federal prison, his daughter Savannah Chrisley shared a sneak peek of her dad's physique as the reunited pair traveled back home to Tennessee.
On Wednesday, Savannah - accompanied by her best friend and hair stylist Tyler Bishop - took to Instagram to document the road trip.
In one clip, the 27-year-old seemed to be experiencing car sickness, but her dad kept the mood light by dropping a joke.
"I didn't have to deal with this in prison," he said, as Savannah laughed.
In another clip, Savannah asked her dad, "What are you trying to get me to do?"
"Feel that muscle," Todd replied, while holding out his arm.
"Todd is jacked," Bishop could be heard saying in the background.
"Just wait," Savannah replied.
While Savannah opted out of showing her dad's face, it was the first time fans had heard Todd's voice since before his prison stint.
On Wednesday evening, Todd first walked out of a federal prison in Pensacola, Florida, after serving two and a half years in prison on bank fraud and tax evasion charges, according to lawyer Alex Little's office. The release came shortly after President Donald Trump signed pardons for both Todd and his wife Julie, who was also convicted of the same charges in 2022.
"Todd has been released from prison and is on his way home to Nashville," Little's office told Fox News Digital.
Little's office confirmed to Fox News Digital that Julie was released from the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky, on Wednesday night, shortly after Todd was released. "Julie has also been released from prison and is now on her way home to Nashville as well," Little's office told Fox News Digital.
Savannah got emotional outside the federal prison in Pensacola awaiting her father's release earlier in the day.
When speaking to reporters, Savannah said, "Honestly, this process has been absolutely insane, and I am so grateful that I'm going to leave here with my dad."
Savannah claimed that prosecutors had her father's head "on a dart board" before his prison sentence. She read Trump's pardon to the reporters, which stated an immediate release, and she said she hopes "the prison is going to do that shortly."
Savannah said Trump's pardon for her parents "literally came out of nowhere."
"I was in such shock and awe that the president himself took the time to tell me my family is coming back together," she said. During her interview, Savannah got emotional while explaining her constant fight to get her parents released from prison wasn't just for them.
"I'm literally fighting for every man that has been left behind here," she said, referring to the prisoners in the federal prison in Pensacola.
On Tuesday, after Trump announced his plan to pardon the couple, Todd and Julie's children were quick to share their excitement.
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"I am grateful to God and extremely grateful to President Trump and his entire administration," the couple's son Chase said in a statement to the New York Post. "I'm beyond thankful to finally have my parents back home and my family together again!"
"I'm ecstatic," Kyle, whose biological mom is Todd's ex-wife, Teresa Terry, told E! News. "Truly. I just found out a little bit ago, and I still just can't believe it. I know Savannah had been working at this for so long, and she never gave up. So I'm just grateful to her and to President Trump for making this happen for my dad and Julie."
"I know they can't wait to get home and just be with family, and I'm going to remain hopeful that another reconciliation is possible," Kyle, who has been estranged from his father for years, added.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital on Wednesday, the couple's attorney explained how the "incredibly powerful" pardon will wipe the couple's case "entirely," as if it never happened.
"A pardon like this generally ends the case entirely, and so we'll see the fine print of the pardon explicitly, but generally when you are pardoned, it is wiped away, and so it's wiped clean," Little, a partner at Litson PLLC, said. "It's as if the case hasn't happened, and fortunately Todd and Julie will be able to pick up their lives to the best that they're able and go on forward and focus on the future."
"I think that the pardon process is something that hadn't been used by many presidents for many, many terms. This president clearly looks at it differently, looks at, is part of his role to oversee the criminal justice system. And look, however much you may want to criticize that, it's an incredibly powerful tool the president has, and I think it's really important the president began to use it. This was a very deserving case and I hope that he finds more."
Fox News Digital's Janelle Ash and Larry Fink contributed to this post.