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.
To those who don’t remember, this guy was trying to SELL A SEAT IN THE US SENATE!
“I’ve got this thing and it’s fucking golden”
Edit: corrected quote
Someone reported that he asked Obama what he’d give to name somebody, and Obama said Blago would “have his appreciation”.
Blago said “Fuck that I want money”. Reporter pointed out that he probably undervalued a president’s appreciation (plus he wouldn’t have gone to jail).
And all the morons on reddit are trying to convince me that Trump is just a purehearted hero trying to save us from corruption and that’s why he has to break the law and ignore court orders and all of the other tyrannical things he’s doing.
Goalposts moving so fast they defy the laws of physics…
We all know where most of the “bad people” are, in the GOP.
Just want to point out that Blagojevich is\was a democrat, and was taken down by a democrat administration.
Kind of makes it worse almost. Trump isn’t acting out of partisanship, but a desire to protect corrupt people like himself.
Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois, has also endorsed Trump. Blagojevich tried to sell Barack Obama’s senate seat in 2008 after he was elected president, and he was incarcerated for eight years afterward. His sentence was commuted by Donald Trump during his time in office.
From Aug 2024
https://www.distractify.com/p/democrats-endorsing-trump-list
It’s wild how the same people who plant “Pritzker sucks” signs in their yard gladly gets behind Trump, who puts a big rubber stamp on the worst governor in recent memory. The running joke among them is Illinois is the most corrupt state and it’s almost entirely because of Rod… The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
Corruption in Illinois has a long history.
https://abc7chicago.com/illinois-governors-in-jail-jailed-who-did-time-served/5944787/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Illinois
And it’s kind of common knowledge that the Democratic machine in Illinois did plenty of dirty work in order to give the state to Kennedy. Like old school ballot stuffing election fraud shit.
Edit: Replaced link with more neutral sources.
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?
It’s incredible how consistent Trump is at doing the wrong thing.
What possible message is there except corruption is good?
This is America’s role model.
The message doesn’t matter. The only question to ask is “what does Donnie get out of this?” Everything he does is for him in some way.
The former governor served eight years of a 14-year prison sentence before Trump commuted his sentence during his first term in early 2020. Trump’s decision faced opposition from some conservative members of Congress and White House advisers who warned the president that it would undercut his promise to “drain the swamp.”
i apologize for the you tube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyvxt1svxso
