This is Trump's idea of "draining the swamp":
WASHINGTON — President Trump has commuted the 14-year prison sentence of former Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois, the Democrat who was convicted of trying to essentially sell President Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat for personal gain, according to a person briefed on the decision.
Trump commutes former Illinois Gov. Blagojevich's sentence
Give Trump an inch and he'll take a mile. This will not end.
Perhaps.
OTH, there might be more to that story than the public knows.
Politics is a rough game, and it is apparent to me that the justice system in this nation has become highly politicized and corrupt.
Just the fact that Blagojevich is a Democrat, and Trump is a Republican, makes me think that perhaps there is a lot more to this story than the general public will ever know.
". . .Prosecutors have balked at the notion long promoted by Blagojevich that he engaged in common political horse-trading and was a victim of an overzealous U.S. attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald. After Blagojevich's arrest, Fitzgerald said the governor had gone on "a political corruption crime spree" that would make Abraham Lincoln turn over in his grave.
Mueller — a subject of Trump's derision — was FBI director during the investigation into Blagojevich. Fitzgerald is now a private attorney for another former FBI director, James Comey, whom Trump dismissed from the agency in May 2017.. . . "
I have read some truly wicked and sleazy shit on Mueller. . . he's an establishment goon. This is probably a case of organized crime has different interests than the war criminals at the CFR, Atlantic Council and the like. I will NOT be convinced that one is better than the other. They pretty much like to choose who Americans get to select as their leaders, and when someone who represents the wrong stake holders gets too powerful, the folks in charge of the judges and lawyers generally apply the law unevenly. This is what all the bickering in D.C. is about today.