Trump Signs Pardon for Ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
President Donald Trump signed a full unconditional pardon for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Blagojevich is one of many governors from my home state of Illinois who landed in jail. I don’t know how the others slipped through the cracks.
I actually agree with Trump that Blagojevich was set up. He was totally their fall guy.
However, Blagojevich is not a very fine person. No politician from Illinois is a fine person. You won’t ever catch me voting for a politician from Illinois even if the person is a libertarian!
I know it’s Wikipedia, but it has the entire story of Blagojevich’s corruption story: Rod Blagojevich corruption charges. It started before he got caught on tape trying to sell former President Barack Obama’s senate seat.
From the video:
MILLER: Next, we have a full and unconditional pardon for former governor Rob Blagojevich of the state of Illinois.TRUMP: Good. It’s my honor to do it. I’ve watched him. He was set up by a lot of bad people. Some of the same people that I had to deal with. He wasn’t quite as successful, but he had somebody that saw what was going on. I didn’t know him other, that I believe…He was on The Apprentice for a little while. He was just a very nice person. He had a fantastic wife. She fought like hell to get him out.He was given a sentence of, like, 18 years. And there was a sort of a terrible injustice. They just were after him. They go after a lot of people. These are bad people on the other side.So I think he’s just a very fine person, and this shouldn’t have happened, and it shouldn’t have happened to him. And let him have a normal life and let him go out and do what he has to do.So I’m signing this is as a full pardon…Rod Blagojevich.REPORTER: Mr. President, are you considering him for Ambassador to Serbia?TRUMP: No, but I would. He’s now cleaner than anybody in this room. He got a pardon. He’s cleaner than anybody in the room.
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