The Great America Show 2/19/25: Blagojevich: Weaponized Government Started With Me

Over 17-years ago, then Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was indicted and charged with 'crimes' related to the filling Obama's seat in the Senate. Two years later, he was found guilty of one count of making false statements and a mistrial declared on 23 charges due to a hung jury after 14 days of jury deliberation.

Prosecutors, within 15-minutes, announced they would seek a retrial and so they did. At the retrial, he found guilty of 11 charges of corruption related to the sale of the Obama seat and 6 charges related to pay-to-play dealings. On Dec 7th 2011, Rod was sentenced to 14-years in jail, which he served 8 out of those 14 years with President Trump commuting his sentence in 2020. Since that time, Trump has also issued a full pardon to Rod. So what was the reasoning behind going after him in the first place? Why did Obama want him gone? Rod never received a dollar from the alleged scheme and at trial, the judge would not allow the wiretapping tapes to be played. If he was wiretapped, and did the crime, why not release the tapes for a jury to decide, what did they have to hide?

Guest: Governor Rod Blagojevich

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