President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who was convicted and sentenced to prison on corruption charges surrounding his time in office.
“It was a sort of a terrible injustice,” Trump said. “They just were after him. They go after a lot of people. These are bad people, the other side.”
Of note, those corruption charges stemmed from Blagojevich very openly trying to sell Obama’s vacant US Senate seat in Illinois after the 2008 election.
While it’s undoubtedly true the corruption goes further than Rod, it has never been worse than selling a senate seat vacated by a sitting president. Also, a conservative thinktank isn’t where I prefer to read about history.
Oh I didn’t even realize, I just clicked the first thing that looked okay and reviewed the facts - seems factual to me?