Penelope
Diamond Member
- Jul 15, 2014
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him, I can hear you know and I could hear you then. After all he is a Dem as Trump use to be. He played the field though (I mean trump). He will be a dem turned Republican if he gets pardoned . LOL. Birds of a feather...…. fly together.
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- Defending his position, Trump noted that Blagojevich is a Democrat: “He's not my party. But I thought that he was treated unfairly.” Blagojevich is a Democrat, but so was Trump — until September 2009. Developing a Trump-branded hotel in Chicago at the time, the president donated $5,000 to Blagojevich’s 2002 campaign and another $2,000 in 2007.
The two men have a personal history, though. Blagojevich was a contestant on “Celebrity Apprentice” in 2010 — after he was indicted but before he was convicted. “Governor, you have a hell of a lot of guts, I have to tell you that,” Trump told him on the first episode of the season. “I have friends where things have happened to them. They crawl into a corner. They die. You're out there punching! I respect that.”
Trump fired Blagojevich on the fourth episode. Soon, he may more than make it up to him.
Analysis | The Daily 202: Floating clemency for Blagojevich, Trump diminishes the gravity of political corruption
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- Defending his position, Trump noted that Blagojevich is a Democrat: “He's not my party. But I thought that he was treated unfairly.” Blagojevich is a Democrat, but so was Trump — until September 2009. Developing a Trump-branded hotel in Chicago at the time, the president donated $5,000 to Blagojevich’s 2002 campaign and another $2,000 in 2007.
The two men have a personal history, though. Blagojevich was a contestant on “Celebrity Apprentice” in 2010 — after he was indicted but before he was convicted. “Governor, you have a hell of a lot of guts, I have to tell you that,” Trump told him on the first episode of the season. “I have friends where things have happened to them. They crawl into a corner. They die. You're out there punching! I respect that.”
Trump fired Blagojevich on the fourth episode. Soon, he may more than make it up to him.
Analysis | The Daily 202: Floating clemency for Blagojevich, Trump diminishes the gravity of political corruption