BREAKING: Trump expected to commute sentence of Rod Blagojevich

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

In exchange for an endorsement?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. I'm sure he's not doing it for his health

Why Blago's endorsement would mean anything is beyond me

[KPN]

2. DeBartolo and then this. These are dry runs. Training exercises so to speak.

Practice sessions to condition his loyal GOP subjects. Any dissent on these, he'll smack 'em down and set an example for next time. And we all know who the who's are next time.

[Liberalhammer]

3. It's to normalize

His extortion.

[mr_lebowski]

4. Wants to make it look like it's not partisan when he pardons Stone ...

Just part of a larger pattern where he's just going around pardoning everyone (LOOK! EVEN A DEM!) and Stone's another of those ... like ... "oh, yeah, I just so happened to pardon him too while I was pardoning a bunch of people ... "

It's like the kid trying to buy liquor in American Graffiti ...

[dewsgirl]

7. This was predicted by someone here, last year.

[Iliyah]

5. This pardon and endorsement . . .

will not flip too many Democrats, if any . .

Must see the writing on the wall. But alas, there are still foreign Billionaires he can tap.

[mr_lebowski]

8. It would maybe go a bit further if he pardoned Siegelman ... though the damage is already done ...

That guy got railroaded on bullshit charges, leading to his doing hard time for a WHILE.

Blago was guilty and corrupt, acting like a mob boss ...

So of COURSE Trump chose to pardon him over the innocent guy, why wouldn't he?

[murielm99]

6. We don't want Rod back.

I hope he goes to live in another state.

[tritsofme]

9. My guess is that he packages it with Stone's commutation to be "bipartisan"

Three disgraceful men, right there.

[live love laugh]

10. I'm happy for Blago his sentence was unjustified.

I think Trump will use that excessive sentence to try to free Flynn.

[Nature Man]

11. If the same standard of "justice"

applied to Blago was applied to Trump, Trump would have been impeached, removed, imprisoned, possibly tarred and feathered.

[ancianita]

12. Unlike Republicans, we Democrats in Illinois put our crooks in jail. THEY elect them president.

Rod will never work in a blue state again.

I posted this elsewhere, not sure where.

[Initech]

14. He'll probably get work as a Fox News correspondant.

Or an OANN contributor.

[ancianita]

15. He's lost any photogenic and all political credibility. So yeah, maybe Fox.

[Initech]

13. This is a flagarant abuse of power.