Rod Blagojevich
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Mar
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Yes. Look, I spent 2,896 days because of what they did and how they did it.
Oh, no, no. I would have. Oh, you mean just political bartering?
No, I think they were going to do whatever they did to get me no matter what. Why? Because they had spent so much time and money, five years.
I think part of it has to do with—a lot of it has to do with the actual U.S. attorney. His name is Patrick Fitzgerald. He and James Comey are real close. It's this sort of FBI, DOJ-type people who've become part of today's Department of Justice, and they feel like they're a power center of their own right— that they're this new political place in American government.
They are so dangerous to our freedoms in this country. I think it was largely that. He had convicted the previous governor, Republican Governor Ryan, of crimes that he had committed when he was the Secretary of State of Illinois. And so now he could be the first guy in history to get two straight governors. And I think it was that.
I think he wanted to leverage Obama to keep him in office so he could finish the job and get me after investing five years And he came up with nothing. That's why they invented the crimes from those conversations. And if anybody doubts this, and I fully understand why people would, the question I'd ask people is, well, you tell me what side is lying.
The side that refuses to play 98% of the tapes that they made or the guy that's saying, play them all, warts and all. There's unflattering calls where I say stupid things or, you know, I'm angry or whatever the case may be or I'm using profanity. They replayed those. But play those tapes. What are you hiding? The side that's hiding is the side that's lying. And they're hiding it to this day.
They covered up all those tapes. They wouldn't even let me play them in court in the second trial, even though they promised that I would, could play them if I testified at the second trial. And so I got up on the stand, Joe, and the judge had promised on the 20th of May, 2011, I thought this was the day I'd be vindicated.
He said, look, if he agrees to testify, he can play the tapes to corroborate his testimony. Because I was a lawyer and I was also a prosecutor at the state level, Cook County prosecutor.
And I know how the system works and I know that if you get up there and you're saying certain things and one side has tapes of you saying something and you're saying stuff but you don't have tapes to corroborate what you're saying, the prosecutor is going to simply tell the jury in closing argument.
Go back to the jury room and see how many times you hear what he testified to corroborated by those tapes. And if you don't find any tapes, then you know who's lying. I knew this. But when the judge said I can do it on the record, I felt beautiful. I'll testify. And then we'll play the tapes to back up my testimony. So I get up there. I testify.
Then when it's time to play the tapes, the judge won't allow them. It was a setup. And then the prosecutor does exactly what I knew they would do if those tapes weren't heard. He says, go back into the jury room and see how many times he talked about it. The Madigan deal, because that was the big deal I was about to make before they arrested me.
You won't hear a single tape, even though there were 102 conversations on that subject. They were all covered up and the jury didn't know those tapes existed. It was a total fucking frame up in a rigged criminal justice system in a court that was rigged. And that's today's America. And why? What happened to Trump is so important.
They did it to him in those different courts where they got the convictions for things that weren't crimes.
Well said. I don't want to sound like an egomaniac, but I got to tell you, they got away with it with me. And they got emboldened then to say, we can do it to a Democratic governor, the fifth largest state in America. We can get away with it. Non-fucking crimes that we make up shit and call them certain things that are sexy sounding, sale of the Senate seat.
That eventually was reversed by the appellate court. They could never uphold that unlawful standard. Three fundraising requests where there was no quid pro quo. I got convicted of that. None of it was personal corruption. No one said I even took a penny. And they gave me 14 years because I was fighting against them and exposing them. So it started, I really believe, with me.
And they got away with it with me and some of the same people. Comey, Fitzgerald, those people were doing it to Trump with Russia collusion stuff. And some of the same people then went on and have been doing it as part of a, get this, organized political campaign that came right out of the Oval Office. out of the Democratic National Committee, the DNC, into the DOJ.
They've corrupted the Department of Justice and the FBI, and they've corrupted the rule of law and the Constitution, and this is no small thing. And just because Trump won, because the American people are beginning to get it, doesn't mean we're safe. The Trump administration, God willing, is going to do something very serious about this.
If there's anything that this administration can do to make America great again is to protect our rights and our freedoms and to hold the people that do this accountable and make an example of them, not to be vengeful, but because it's just and because it sends a message to these unaccountable prosecutors who have no check and balance that if they do this and frame innocent people, they're going to be treated the same way as a dirty cop who plants a murder weapon to frame an innocent man.
Look at this guy, Andrew Weissman on CNN. He's got a big spot at CNN, the legal expert. You ever see this guy?
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