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

[Coyote]

Normal business for our political world; why single out Blagojevich?

Why single out anyone? If they are corrupt get them out!

then you cannot vote for any politicians in most urban areas.

Yes. I can. I can vote for those not convicted of corruption.

 

[Coyote]

He is a crook. That is why he went to jail and still should be jailed. Even Illinois Republicans agree with that. The only people listening to him are Trump sycophants.

It is CRAZY isn't it?

Oh, puhleeze.

Obama wanted to 'sell'/trade his old seat and Babbayagabitch wouldnt play ball, so they buried him.

But thats all OK since Obama did it and he is a Democrat, so he is a saint, right?

lol

B.S.

Typical. Blame Obama for Blago's corruption. Please.

 

[Syriusly]

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.

If you can't believe a felon convicted of bribery and extortion who can you believe?

 

[Toro]

It's pretty damn funny when white people say what is best for black people.

 

[JoeB131]

Lol, no the dude is the poster child for EXCESSIVE convictions that are politically tainted.

The dude was trying to get political exchange for naming someone to the Senate seat that eventually went to Senator Ducksworth?

Okay, this is where you are a little confused. Between Duckworth and Obama, there was Mark Kirk, who was elected. Blago was trying to SELL the seat to the highest bidder. He also shook down a children's hospital.

That kind of 'pay to play' in terms of favors is standard operating procedure and no different th an what goes on in DC.

When newly elected members of the House have to pay their 'donation' to get on a committee, who do you think really pays for it?

That's right a corporation or special interest group that sponsored them from the start.

Normal business for our political world; why single out Blagojevich?

Mostly because Blago tried to enrich himself.

Again- also shook down a children's hospital.

 

[Olde Europe]

B.S.

Typical. Blame Obama for Blago's corruption. Please.

One really has to wonder whence folks get that BS. The power to appoint a replacement rests with the governor. President Obama couldn't "sell" that seat even if he wanted. Fitzgerald (Bush appointee) got Blagojevich on tape bleating about what he'd extract for the appointment, but Obama buried Blagojevich. At no point does that story add up.

 

[justoffal]

Right or wrong is always relevant .

Right or wrong doesn't exist in politics.
Effective and ineffective does.

Jo

It's sad people think this way. It's why things are such a mess.

We are in such a mess because clueless people think that they know right from wrong.

Trying to sell a political seat is wrong.

Getting caught on tape talking about selling a house seat it is stupid. Blogo was not only corrupt, but stupid. It's Illinois politics. OK. Often corrupt, historically. You can get by in that state with corrupt. You can't get by anywhere with corrupt and stupid anywhere in the country forever. Dumb Donnie should have left him in jail. The optics are really bad, like one corrupt politician pardoning another corrupt politician, because it is. Can't blame Blogo on talking up for trump. If he just sprung you or me, we'd be singing his praises too. Doesn't mean anything to the general public. Probably means a lot to trump. He has gobs of criminal friends who were corrupt and stupid, they're his favorites.

Nah it was a brilliant move. You don't seriously think people care about corruption
do you?

Jo

 

[White 6]

Right or wrong doesn't exist in politics.
Effective and ineffective does.

Jo

It's sad people think this way. It's why things are such a mess.

We are in such a mess because clueless people think that they know right from wrong.

Trying to sell a political seat is wrong.

Getting caught on tape talking about selling a house seat it is stupid. Blogo was not only corrupt, but stupid. It's Illinois politics. OK. Often corrupt, historically. You can get by in that state with corrupt. You can't get by anywhere with corrupt and stupid anywhere in the country forever. Dumb Donnie should have left him in jail. The optics are really bad, like one corrupt politician pardoning another corrupt politician, because it is. Can't blame Blogo on talking up for trump. If he just sprung you or me, we'd be singing his praises too. Doesn't mean anything to the general public. Probably means a lot to trump. He has gobs of criminal friends who were corrupt and stupid, they're his favorites.

Nah it was a brilliant move. You don't seriously think people care about corruption
do you?

Jo

Probably not you, but many of the honest ones, in fact do.

 

[Billiejeens]

Right or wrong doesn't exist in politics.
Effective and ineffective does.

Jo

It's sad people think this way. It's why things are such a mess.

We are in such a mess because clueless people think that they know right from wrong.

Trying to sell a political seat is wrong.

Getting caught on tape talking about selling a house seat it is stupid. Blogo was not only corrupt, but stupid. It's Illinois politics. OK. Often corrupt, historically. You can get by in that state with corrupt. You can't get by anywhere with corrupt and stupid anywhere in the country forever. Dumb Donnie should have left him in jail. The optics are really bad, like one corrupt politician pardoning another corrupt politician, because it is. Can't blame Blogo on talking up for trump. If he just sprung you or me, we'd be singing his praises too. Doesn't mean anything to the general public. Probably means a lot to trump. He has gobs of criminal friends who were corrupt and stupid, they're his favorites.

Nah it was a brilliant move. You don't seriously think people care about corruption
do you?

Jo

Not usually Democrats
Not at all.

 

[JimBowie1958]

It's pretty damn funny when white people say what is best for black people.

That is pretty damned racist of you.

So a black person shouldnt go to a white doctor? Why is that different if so?

Because it violates your racist presumptions?

 

[JimBowie1958]

Nah it was a brilliant move. You don't seriously think people care about corruption
do you?

Leftists 'care' about Tammany Hall corruption in the abstract, but hope that in the real world it will be there to help them if needed.