Rod
Blagojevich has torn a page straight out of the Donald Trump
playbook. After the president commuted the former Illinois governor's 14-year prison sentence for corruption, he characterized himself as a “political prisoner,”
blaming his troubles on “those uncontrolled, unaccountable lawless
prosecutors who did this to me. I broke no laws. I crossed no
lines.”
Like
Trump, he refuses to acknowledge facts and apparently subscribes to
the notion that if he repeats his lies often enough and loudly
enough, they'll eventually find currency as facts. At least, one
would suppose, with enough morons to buy his eventual book or watch
his eventual reality TV show.
More
disturbingly, he says the above-mentioned “lawless prosecutors”
are the same people who are trying to undermine his savior-in-chief,
calling himself a “Trumpocrat.” Given Trump's bald transactional
worldview, it seems probable that, whether Blagojevich believes it or
not, taking this particular angle with his claim of innocence was
likely a condition of Trump's pardon.
“If
the . . . flimsy, unlawful standard that was applied to me were to be
applied to everybody else in politics, every senator, every
congressman, every mayor, every governor would have been sent to
prison as I've been,” he claimed. He went on to say, “The very
same people who did it to me, many of them have been trying to do to
President Trump. They turned things, they're routine and legal, and
they suddenly say they're illegal.”
For
his part, the president tweeted, “Rod Blagojevich did not sell the
Senate seat. He served 8 years in prison, with many remaining. He
paid a big price. Another Comey and gang deal!” U.S. Attorney
Patrick J. Fitzgerald was the lead prosecutor in Blagojevich's case –
and former FBI Director Jim Comey hired Fitzgerald as his personal
attorney after the president fired him.
Good
god! A day out of jail and Blago has already hit “11” on the
insufferable meter.
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