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.
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?