Dana Milbank: Trump earns key endorsement from Rod Blagojevich (D-Prison)
Source: Washington Post
Trump earns key endorsement from Rod Blagojevich (D-Prison)
By Dana Milbank
Columnist
1/2/2020, 5:58:16 p.m.
Rod Blagojevich knows a f---ing valuable thing when he sees it.
If he were a lesser man, he might have taken it as a career setback when he was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he tried, as Illinois governor in 2008, to sell a U.S. Senate seat for campaign contributions. But not Blago. Impeached, removed from office and convicted, he has seized the chance presented him by his confinement to reinvent himself as a leading prisoner-historian. His latest scholarly work: a New Year’s Day essay tracing some striking parallels between Donald Trump and Abraham Lincoln.
“I, like most people from my home state of Illinois, am a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln,” Blagojevich writes from his current home state of Colorado, location of the Federal Correctional Institution-Englewood. His own “unhappy experience,” he explains, provides “this interesting and unique perspective about impeachment as I sit here in prison.”
Blago’s perspective is indeed unique. He writes: “Today's Democrats would have impeached Lincoln for obstruction of Congress and abuse of power when he unilaterally issued his Emancipation Proclamation.” They also would have impeached him, he writes, for “Confederate collusion,” bribery and an “illegal quid pro quo.”
Spinning out this alternate history, the Sage of Englewood argues that “it could have happened.”
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