Blagojevich Says Trump is Best Defender of American Workers and Black Voters

[Coyote]

This guy got knee capped by a vengeful Democrat Party Chicago machine, and for what I dont know.
Maybe they just decided he was too embarrassing, or too quick to fire from the lip.
Well, he is certainly firing away now.

Exclusive — Rod Blagojevich Explains Why He Is a ‘Trumpocrat’

Blagojevich says the great irony of American politics is that Trump—a Republican—has done more to rectify these problems that Democrats created for black and working class Americans than any of America’s other recent presidents, in large part because Trump has ditched the “traditional” GOP playbook to pursue a more solutions-oriented agenda. Upon his release from prison, Blagojevich announced he is a “Trumpocrat”–making him the highest profile such Democrat who has left the Democratic Party to join President Trump–and here he explains his views in the most in-depth interview yet since his release.

“When I say I’m a Trumpocrat—and hopefully a lot of others are as well, and I believe they are—it’s largely because the Democratic Party has not only left us but it’s abandoned traditional Democratic constituencies like working people, factory workers like my father an immigrant who came to America and spent all of his time here as a working man working in a steel factory,” Blagojevich said. “And also, the Democratic Party has for far too long taken the African American community for granted. They’ve not only abandoned them, they’ve sold them out when they passed the crime bill in 1994 that President Clinton and Vice President Biden, then-Senator Biden backed and voted for. Our senator here, Sen. Durbin, voted for it. It’s a bill that led to the mass incarceration of a whole new generation of African American men for nonviolent first-time drug offenses, over-sentencing them and then putting them in a position where they can have no opportunity whatsoever to begin a new life after correcting the mistakes that they made and paying their debts to society, frankly, for the crimes that they committed. President Trump, interestingly enough, is speaking to those constituencies in ways that traditional Republicans never did.”

Blagojevich said that whether it’s through his economic policies or his criminal justice reform policies or other norm-challenging fights, Trump has upended the normal political battle lines in a way that is “revolutionizing American politics” and “re-aligning” what would be considered “traditional” political coalitions by zoning in on and successfully “drawing from” what were considered “Democratic constituency groups.”

“And I think he’s not only been successful politically because he’s done it, I think he’s revolutionizing American politics,” Blagojevich said. “He’s re-aligning politics in America by drawing from those traditional Democratic constituency groups, the factory worker that used to work in a factory that’s gone because of the 1994 NAFTA bill that President Clinton signed sending all those jobs away. President Trump is bringing them back in places like western Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin and southern Illinois—the rust belt states. One of the many frustrations I had as governor was when I would leave the Chicagoland area where I’m from—I’m from Chicago—and I’d visit places like the Quad Cities or Marion, Illinois, or Franklin County, Illinois, where they used to have coal mines and people were working and that was the economic anchor of the community or you’d go to a place like Galesburg, Illinois, where the Maytag factory once was but has left because of NAFTA and President Clinton and the policies of the Democratic Party that’s supposed to be the party that protected those people and looked out for their interests. It’s hard to be able to explain to those communities that there was hope, that there was a possibility that we might be able to bring some of those economic engines back to the state. Now, at last, we have a president who not only promised to do it but he’s doing it. I think President Trump is making real strides in succeeding in that but more importantly he’s actually addressing the needs of the American worker. And with the First Step Act, he’s actually done something for a community that overwhelming votes for Democrats like me. We easily get 90 percent or better of the African American vote when we run against Republicans. Yet, the Democratic Party I would say cynically has taken the African American community for granted. It’s almost immoral, their treatment of the African American community by sort of just keeping them dependent and in a certain place where they have to look to government for all the answers when at the same it’s actually government through over-sentencing and targeting African Americans that are causing a lot of the problems and conditions in these very communities.”​

I smell a future suicide for the ex-gov.

Knee capped???? The guy was a damn crook!

 

[Disir]

Blagojevich is a Trumpocrat because he was bent over by the Democratic Party. He truly did piss of the wrong people.

 

[JoeB131]

Knee capped???? The guy was a damn crook!

If Trump pardoned Charles Manson, they'd claim Sharon Tate had it coming.

 

[harmonica]

.....but you people LOVE violent criminals that attack cops/etc.....you burn/loot/protest for violent criminals.....at least he served some time

These would be the cops who shoot kids when they have their hands up or are lying on the ground and get shot 16 times? Those cops?

No, there's really no excuse for what Blago did... but the Trump cult being the Trump cult, you'll excuse him.

5 years I think....

Jo

More like 7. He was supposed to serve 14.

you blacks make your arguments total crap when you talk about cops

 

[pknopp]

.....but you people LOVE violent criminals that attack cops/etc.....you burn/loot/protest for violent criminals.....at least he served some time

These would be the cops who shoot kids when they have their hands up or are lying on the ground and get shot 16 times? Those cops?

No, there's really no excuse for what Blago did... but the Trump cult being the Trump cult, you'll excuse him.

5 years I think....

Jo

More like 7. He was supposed to serve 14.

you blacks make your arguments total crap when you talk about cops

I'm not black. Cops don't always do the right thing. They should be held accountable just like anyone else when they do not.

 

[harmonica]

.....but you people LOVE violent criminals that attack cops/etc.....you burn/loot/protest for violent criminals.....at least he served some time

These would be the cops who shoot kids when they have their hands up or are lying on the ground and get shot 16 times? Those cops?

No, there's really no excuse for what Blago did... but the Trump cult being the Trump cult, you'll excuse him.

5 years I think....

Jo

More like 7. He was supposed to serve 14.

you blacks make your arguments total crap when you talk about cops

I'm not black. Cops don't always do the right thing. They should be held accountable just like anyone else when they do not.

....I don't care if you are black or blue.........cops are usually held accountable..but most of the time they are defending themselves from jackass criminals.....the system is not perfect
..BLACK OJ was not held accountable for MURDERING whites /etc
HEY--DUH--the cops are usually RESPONDING to a criminal complaint!!!!!!! get it???

 

[harmonica]

Knee capped???? The guy was a damn crook!

If Trump pardoned Charles Manson, they'd claim Sharon Tate had it coming.

but he didn't--did he??? hahhahahaahahahhaah
your arguments are non-factual and pathetic ....you are just babbling

 

[pknopp]

.....but you people LOVE violent criminals that attack cops/etc.....you burn/loot/protest for violent criminals.....at least he served some time

These would be the cops who shoot kids when they have their hands up or are lying on the ground and get shot 16 times? Those cops?

No, there's really no excuse for what Blago did... but the Trump cult being the Trump cult, you'll excuse him.

5 years I think....

Jo

More like 7. He was supposed to serve 14.

you blacks make your arguments total crap when you talk about cops

I'm not black. Cops don't always do the right thing. They should be held accountable just like anyone else when they do not.

....I don't care if you are black or blue.........cops are usually held accountable..but most of the time they are defending themselves from jackass criminals.....the system is not perfect
..BLACK OJ was not held accountable for MURDERING whites /etc
HEY--DUH--the cops are usually RESPONDING to a criminal complaint!!!!!!! get it???

"Usually" is irrelevant. It's the time that isn't "usual" that is the problem.

 

[JoeB131]

you blacks make your arguments total crap when you talk about cops

1) I'm white.
2) Cases of police brutality have been well documented.

 

[harmonica]

.....but you people LOVE violent criminals that attack cops/etc.....you burn/loot/protest for violent criminals.....at least he served some time

These would be the cops who shoot kids when they have their hands up or are lying on the ground and get shot 16 times? Those cops?

No, there's really no excuse for what Blago did... but the Trump cult being the Trump cult, you'll excuse him.

5 years I think....

Jo

More like 7. He was supposed to serve 14.

you blacks make your arguments total crap when you talk about cops

I'm not black. Cops don't always do the right thing. They should be held accountable just like anyone else when they do not.

....I don't care if you are black or blue.........cops are usually held accountable..but most of the time they are defending themselves from jackass criminals.....the system is not perfect
..BLACK OJ was not held accountable for MURDERING whites /etc
HEY--DUH--the cops are usually RESPONDING to a criminal complaint!!!!!!! get it???

"Usually" is irrelevant. It's the time that isn't "usual" that is the problem.

....which is very RARE--.......
again --cops shoot about 300 blacks a year---most are armed and dangerous
blacks MURDER 3000 blacks a year
....there are over 30 MILLION calls for police assistance per year--not counting traffic stops
please divide 30 MILLION by about TEN QUESTIONABLE shootings of blacks by cops ---THAT is your number of '''usual''--which is infintesimal

 

[JoeB131]

but he didn't--did he??? hahhahahaahahahhaah
your arguments are non-factual and pathetic ....you are just babbling

No, he commuted Blago, despite protests from both Republicans and Democrats that his corruption was so beyond the pale that it shouldn't be forgiven.

But Blago appeared on his TV show once, so he gets a commutation.

 

[pknopp]

These would be the cops who shoot kids when they have their hands up or are lying on the ground and get shot 16 times? Those cops?

No, there's really no excuse for what Blago did... but the Trump cult being the Trump cult, you'll excuse him.

More like 7. He was supposed to serve 14.

you blacks make your arguments total crap when you talk about cops

I'm not black. Cops don't always do the right thing. They should be held accountable just like anyone else when they do not.

....I don't care if you are black or blue.........cops are usually held accountable..but most of the time they are defending themselves from jackass criminals.....the system is not perfect
..BLACK OJ was not held accountable for MURDERING whites /etc
HEY--DUH--the cops are usually RESPONDING to a criminal complaint!!!!!!! get it???

"Usually" is irrelevant. It's the time that isn't "usual" that is the problem.

....which is very RARE--.......
again --cops shoot about 300 blacks a year---most are armed and dangerous
blacks MURDER 3000 blacks a year
....there are over 30 MILLION calls for police assistance per year--not counting traffic stops
please divide 30 MILLION by about TEN QUESTIONABLE shootings of blacks by cops ---THAT is your number of '''usual''--which is infintesimal

Rare is irrelevant. You can't look the other way simply because something is rare.

 

[Jitss617]

Yes well he's just one of the ones that got caught. There is certainly nothing unusual about what he as a politician did especially in Illinois. Unfortunately for lefty however he still connects with a large number of Democrats who feel he was unfairly treated. He could possibly swing a fair percentage of votes by being a vocal spokesman. Trying to smear him now at this point is pretty much useless.

Guy, you are delusional.. nobody is going to vote for Trump because he commuted Blago's sentence.

I am

 

[JoeB131]

I am

Um, you weren't going to vote for him before he commuted Blago's sentence...

He could pardon Charles Manson and you'd still vote for him. Oh, wait, Manson died a while back.

 

[Jitss617]

I am

Um, you weren't going to vote for him before he commuted Blago's sentence...

He could pardon Charles Manson and you'd still vote for him. Oh, wait, Manson died a while back.

TDS

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

This guy got knee capped by a vengeful Democrat Party Chicago machine, and for what I dont know.
Maybe they just decided he was too embarrassing, or too quick to fire from the lip.
Well, he is certainly firing away now.

Maybe you should read up on Blago and what he did.

In addition to trying to sell President Obama's Senate Seat, he shook down a CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL for campaign donations.

It wasn't a vengeful Democratic Machine that kneecapped him, it was a Republican US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald who investigated him and his vote to be removed from office was bipartisan, with a 114-1* vote in the Illinois House to impeach him and a 59-0 vote in the Illinois Senate to remove him.

(* - the only vote to not remove him in the house came from his Sister-in-Law, Deborah Mell)

This was a case where justice was done, but Trump, just as corrupt as Blago, commuted his sentence.

Yes well he's just one of the ones that got caught. There is certainly nothing unusual about what he as a politician did especially in Illinois. Unfortunately for lefty however he still connects with a large number of Democrats who feel he was unfairly treated. He could possibly swing a fair percentage of votes by being a vocal spokesman. Trying to smear him now at this point is pretty much useless.

Jo

Bawahahahahahahahhahaha @ still connects with a large number of democrats..

You trumpers are beyond pathetic and delusional

 

[harmonica]

you blacks make your arguments total crap when you talk about cops

I'm not black. Cops don't always do the right thing. They should be held accountable just like anyone else when they do not.

....I don't care if you are black or blue.........cops are usually held accountable..but most of the time they are defending themselves from jackass criminals.....the system is not perfect
..BLACK OJ was not held accountable for MURDERING whites /etc
HEY--DUH--the cops are usually RESPONDING to a criminal complaint!!!!!!! get it???

"Usually" is irrelevant. It's the time that isn't "usual" that is the problem.

....which is very RARE--.......
again --cops shoot about 300 blacks a year---most are armed and dangerous
blacks MURDER 3000 blacks a year
....there are over 30 MILLION calls for police assistance per year--not counting traffic stops
please divide 30 MILLION by about TEN QUESTIONABLE shootings of blacks by cops ---THAT is your number of '''usual''--which is infintesimal

Rare is irrelevant. You can't look the other way simply because something is rare.

.....you and Joe are just babblers...you post no facts/stats/links--just bullshit babble and opinion

 

[harmonica]

but he didn't--did he??? hahhahahaahahahhaah
your arguments are non-factual and pathetic ....you are just babbling

No, he commuted Blago, despite protests from both Republicans and Democrats that his corruption was so beyond the pale that it shouldn't be forgiven.

But Blago appeared on his TV show once, so he gets a commutation.

you're a babbler

 

[pknopp]

I'm not black. Cops don't always do the right thing. They should be held accountable just like anyone else when they do not.

....I don't care if you are black or blue.........cops are usually held accountable..but most of the time they are defending themselves from jackass criminals.....the system is not perfect
..BLACK OJ was not held accountable for MURDERING whites /etc
HEY--DUH--the cops are usually RESPONDING to a criminal complaint!!!!!!! get it???

"Usually" is irrelevant. It's the time that isn't "usual" that is the problem.

....which is very RARE--.......
again --cops shoot about 300 blacks a year---most are armed and dangerous
blacks MURDER 3000 blacks a year
....there are over 30 MILLION calls for police assistance per year--not counting traffic stops
please divide 30 MILLION by about TEN QUESTIONABLE shootings of blacks by cops ---THAT is your number of '''usual''--which is infintesimal

Rare is irrelevant. You can't look the other way simply because something is rare.

.....you and Joe are just babblers...you post no facts/stats/links--just bullshit babble and opinion

Many examples have been posted.

 

[bodecea]

This guy got knee capped by a vengeful Democrat Party Chicago machine, and for what I dont know.
Maybe they just decided he was too embarrassing, or too quick to fire from the lip.
Well, he is certainly firing away now.

Exclusive — Rod Blagojevich Explains Why He Is a ‘Trumpocrat’

Blagojevich says the great irony of American politics is that Trump—a Republican—has done more to rectify these problems that Democrats created for black and working class Americans than any of America’s other recent presidents, in large part because Trump has ditched the “traditional” GOP playbook to pursue a more solutions-oriented agenda. Upon his release from prison, Blagojevich announced he is a “Trumpocrat”–making him the highest profile such Democrat who has left the Democratic Party to join President Trump–and here he explains his views in the most in-depth interview yet since his release.

“When I say I’m a Trumpocrat—and hopefully a lot of others are as well, and I believe they are—it’s largely because the Democratic Party has not only left us but it’s abandoned traditional Democratic constituencies like working people, factory workers like my father an immigrant who came to America and spent all of his time here as a working man working in a steel factory,” Blagojevich said. “And also, the Democratic Party has for far too long taken the African American community for granted. They’ve not only abandoned them, they’ve sold them out when they passed the crime bill in 1994 that President Clinton and Vice President Biden, then-Senator Biden backed and voted for. Our senator here, Sen. Durbin, voted for it. It’s a bill that led to the mass incarceration of a whole new generation of African American men for nonviolent first-time drug offenses, over-sentencing them and then putting them in a position where they can have no opportunity whatsoever to begin a new life after correcting the mistakes that they made and paying their debts to society, frankly, for the crimes that they committed. President Trump, interestingly enough, is speaking to those constituencies in ways that traditional Republicans never did.”

Blagojevich said that whether it’s through his economic policies or his criminal justice reform policies or other norm-challenging fights, Trump has upended the normal political battle lines in a way that is “revolutionizing American politics” and “re-aligning” what would be considered “traditional” political coalitions by zoning in on and successfully “drawing from” what were considered “Democratic constituency groups.”

“And I think he’s not only been successful politically because he’s done it, I think he’s revolutionizing American politics,” Blagojevich said. “He’s re-aligning politics in America by drawing from those traditional Democratic constituency groups, the factory worker that used to work in a factory that’s gone because of the 1994 NAFTA bill that President Clinton signed sending all those jobs away. President Trump is bringing them back in places like western Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin and southern Illinois—the rust belt states. One of the many frustrations I had as governor was when I would leave the Chicagoland area where I’m from—I’m from Chicago—and I’d visit places like the Quad Cities or Marion, Illinois, or Franklin County, Illinois, where they used to have coal mines and people were working and that was the economic anchor of the community or you’d go to a place like Galesburg, Illinois, where the Maytag factory once was but has left because of NAFTA and President Clinton and the policies of the Democratic Party that’s supposed to be the party that protected those people and looked out for their interests. It’s hard to be able to explain to those communities that there was hope, that there was a possibility that we might be able to bring some of those economic engines back to the state. Now, at last, we have a president who not only promised to do it but he’s doing it. I think President Trump is making real strides in succeeding in that but more importantly he’s actually addressing the needs of the American worker. And with the First Step Act, he’s actually done something for a community that overwhelming votes for Democrats like me. We easily get 90 percent or better of the African American vote when we run against Republicans. Yet, the Democratic Party I would say cynically has taken the African American community for granted. It’s almost immoral, their treatment of the African American community by sort of just keeping them dependent and in a certain place where they have to look to government for all the answers when at the same it’s actually government through over-sentencing and targeting African Americans that are causing a lot of the problems and conditions in these very communities.”​

I smell a future suicide for the ex-gov.

Birds of a feather.