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applegrove

(118,006 posts)
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 05:00 PM Feb 2020

Rod Blagojevich Adopts the Trump Playbook

Rod Blagojevich Adopts the Trump Playbook

February 23, 2020 at 1:15 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 116 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/02/23/rod-blagojevich-adopts-the-trump-playbook/

"SNIP.....

Chicago Tribune: “In his winding ‘homecoming’ speech and various media interviews since having his sentence commuted Tuesday by President Donald Trump, Blagojevich has woven a web of half-truths and, to critics, hypocrisies around his newly found freedom. He has promoted unfounded conspiracy theories, attacked his former prosecutors and downplayed his own criminal behavior.”

“And as he has been since the moment of his arrest, Blagojevich remains unrepentant. If anything, a lengthy incarceration has only strengthened his belief that he is the victim of political corruption and not the perpetrator.”

“He also seems emboldened by Trump’s bombastic style, which drastically changed the political and cultural landscape while Blagojevich was behind bars. That new reality allows for hurling allegations regardless of their veracity, excoriating perceived opponents in the media and often shouting down the truth.”

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Caliman73

(11,690 posts)
1. The media needs to ignore him, though I know they won't because...money.
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 05:02 PM
Feb 2020

He is a failed, crooked former politician. Nothing else. He should be left alone and be consigned to the dust bin of history.

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
2. Well, he does owe the PissWig some sycophantic pleasure smooches now.
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 05:05 PM
Feb 2020

I can see a White House job in his future.

ooky

(8,885 posts)
8. That was my thought as well,
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 10:01 PM
Feb 2020

with a security clearance personally approved by the Dick Tater, in a job in which he can steal.

applegrove

(118,006 posts)
5. Actually he is a good teaching aid as to con-men. Show him and show him
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 05:27 PM
Feb 2020

to be a convincing fraud so people learn.

maxrandb

(15,188 posts)
6. Hurling allegations regardless of their veracity WORKS
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 09:33 PM
Feb 2020

Because our current media have become nothing more than stenographers.

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