Trump Defends Himself by Citing Rod Blagojevich, the Impeached and Imprisoned Illinois Governor

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Former Illinois Governor Rod Blogojevich is currently serving a 14-year federal prison sentence for corruption and bribery, but that didn’t stop President Donald Trump from pointing to the disgraced Democrat’s plight as an example of overreach by federal prosecutors.

Trump tweeted on Sunday afternoon that Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum’s interview with Blagojevich’s wife, Patricia, was “required television watching.” Trump also urged his followers to watch a different Fox News segment featuring conservative author Jerome Corsi, who recently filed suit against Special council Robert Mueller’s office for allegedly blackmailing him to lie in the special counsel’s investigation into Trump.

Given how seldom Trump manages to reach across the aisle, his recommendation of the Blagojevich interview seems especially jarring. During her interview, Blagojevich attempted to draw similarities between her husband’s well-documented efforts to try to sell then-President-elect Barack Obama’s former Senate seat and the breaking revelations about federal investigators’ probe into Trump’s inaugural committee. “It’s a very dirty business when these prosecutors, with their unchecked power and no oversight at all, can go after any politician,” Patricia Blagojevich argued.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/trump-defends-himself-by-citing-rod-blagojevich-the-impeached-and-imprisoned-illinois-governor/


Our governor Blago was a democrat. In Illinois 4 of the last 7 governors have been in prison. It's just a thing here. Be they dem or repub. It's just our thing. I'm not proud. Hopefully JB will be clean. But, I'm not counting on it.

[LovingA2andMI]

1. RICO....

is also a Crime. Maybe Trump should ask Kwame Kilpatrick if he believes the DOJ can put together a Strong case that could land him in Federal Prison.

[raging moderate]

2. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

rofl: : ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Is Corsi inciting civil war with those lies? Do you ever wonder what these types would

do if someone treated them like they would have been treated when TREASON was a thing?

[UTUSN]

5. K&R