{"id":2251376,"date":"2024-05-23T15:46:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blagojevich-theyre-coming-for-trump-the-way-they-came-after-me\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T15:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:50:32","slug":"blagojevich-theyre-coming-for-trump-the-way-they-came-after-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blagojevich-theyre-coming-for-trump-the-way-they-came-after-me\/","title":{"rendered":"BLAGOJEVICH: Trump Targeted Like Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblagojevich-theyre-coming-for-trump-the-way-they-came-after-me%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2251376&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rod Blagojevich, former Illinois governor, was \u2063convicted of corruption in 2011 for attempting to influence the successor to Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate. After serving \u200c8 years of a 14-year sentence, President \u2062Trump\u2064 commuted his sentence in 2020. Blagojevich\u200c cited political persecution and highlighted the dangerous trend of \u200busing criminal prosecutions for political motives. \u2062Your revised summary is concise and captures the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-gallagher-decision-to-leave-house-unchanged-despite-plea-from-leadership\/\" title=\"Mike Gallagher stands firm on decision to remain in the House despite leadership's plea for him to reconsider\">key points effectively<\/a>\u2062 about Rod \u200bBlagojevich&#8217;s conviction, sentence commutation, and his\u200d concerns regarding political persecution in criminal prosecutions. It provides a clear overview of the \u200bsituation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: In 2011, a jury found <i>Rod Blagojevich guilty of 18 counts of corruption for actions during his time as governor of Illinois, including that he tried to leverage his authority over who would replace Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate. The Illinois Democrat was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison, but the sentence was commuted by former President Donald Trump in February 2020. Trump, who had Blagojevich on \u201cCelebrity Apprentice\u201d after he was arrested and impeached, said that Blagojevich received a \u201cridiculous sentence.\u201d Afterwards, Blagojevich <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/im-a-trumpocrat-rod-blagojevich-thanks-president-in-first-interview-after-release\">declared<\/a> himself a \u201cTrumpocrat.\u201d<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>If it weren\u2019t for Donald J. Trump, today \u2014 May 23, 2024 \u2014 would be the day I finally would be coming home. Four years ago, President Trump commuted my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-avenatti-sentenced-to-14-years-in-prison-for-financial-crimes\/\" title=\"Michael Avenatti Sentenced To 14 Years In Prison For Financial Crimes\">14-year prison sentence<\/a> after I spent eight years there for the non-existent crimes of practicing politics.<\/p>\n<p>I broke no laws.<\/p>\n<p>It was all political talk, initiated by an emissary sent to me by then-President-elect Barack Obama. None of us broke any laws. It was politics, nothing more than political horse-trading. But as Obama went on to serve eight years in the White House, I went on to serve eight years in the Big House.<\/p>\n<p>In my case, dishonest prosecutors weaponized unfettered power to criminalize the routine and necessary political practices of horse-trading and fundraising, concocting them into bogus charges in a sham indictment. They succeeded in ejecting a twice-elected governor from office, undoing an election, and framing an innocent man. They did this out in the open, in the full glare of the media, and they got away with it.<\/p>\n<p>Because of their success against me, they grew bolder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we could do this to a Governor,\u201d they reasoned, \u201cwhy not try it on a President?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Enter Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, and Letitia James.<\/p>\n<p>Partisan prosecutions and lawsuits for invented crimes, politicized courts with politically appointed judges, rigged trials where novel legal theory is used as the basis for shameful indictments, and a news media with its own political agenda pushing false narratives instead of objectively seeking the truth.<\/p>\n<p>What they\u2019ve been doing is no small thing. It is an issue far greater than a Democrat governor or a Republican president. This issue goes to the very heart of Constitutional government and the right of the people to participate freely in fair elections.<\/p>\n<p>We are facing the greatest constitutional crisis in our history since the Civil War. The politics of prosecution, persecution, and political destruction have replaced what Lincoln described as \u201cgovernment of the people, by the people, and for the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The use of criminal prosecutions and partisan courts to interfere with the political process is Soviet-style KGB politics. It\u2019s the politics of the police state, not the politics of what Lincoln fought to preserve. Those who would abuse the justice system by using it not to dispense justice but instead to use as a political tool are traitors to our constitution and to our country. This is treason. It is the abuse of the power of the justice system and the courts to overthrow the people\u2019s right to self-government.<\/p>\n<p>As the former Democrat Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer warned only a few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/overtly-politicized-inside-manchins-filibuster-war-against-the-democrats\/\" title=\"\u2018Overtly Politicized\u2019: Inside Manchin\u2019s Filibuster War Against The Democrats\">short years ago<\/a>, \u201cThese uncontrolled criminal prosecutors are a threat to our separation of powers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former FBI Director James Comey, Former US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, Robert Mueller, Bragg, Willis, and Smith have become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blagojevich-they-are-coming-for-trump-the-same-way-they-came-after-me\/\" title=\"BLAGOJEVICH warns: Trump Next in Line After Me\">political power players abusing prosecutorial power<\/a> to interfere in active elections and serve their partisan political objectives. There is no practical check and balance against them. They can do whatever they want to whomever they want because they lack any accountability.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a shame our nation\u2019s politics are so divided. In this era of hyper-partisanship, too many people put their hatred for the other side above their love of country.<\/p>\n<p>I was a Democrat governor persecuted by Bush-appointed Republican prosecutors. Trump is the Republican nominee for president being persecuted by political allies of President Biden. The cancer of the politics of prosecution spreads to both parties, but what Democrat prosecutors and Democrat courts are now doing to Trump during a presidential campaign is a breathtaking abuse of the justice system akin to what we see in totalitarian dictatorships.<\/p>\n<p>I urge the American people to wake up, speak out, and vote. The stakes couldn\u2019t be higher. We must look past the political labels. These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-leak-they-lie-trump-says-opponents-are-committing-prosecutorial-misconduct-at-levels-rarely-seen-before\/\" title=\"\u2018They Leak, They Lie\u2019: Trump Says Opponents Are Committing \u2018Prosecutorial Misconduct\u2019 At \u2018Levels Rarely Seen Before\u2019\">politically motivated prosecutors<\/a> are leading us down the inevitable slippery slope of payback when the party out of power takes power only to do unto others what was just done to them.<\/p>\n<p>On this day when I would otherwise be returning home, I want to once again thank President Trump for his kindness to me and my family. Better than giving me my freedom back, he gave my young daughters their father back.<\/p>\n<p>I hate what they are doing to him, and I hate what they are doing to the rule of law, our Constitution, our democracy, and our country.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note: In 2011, Rod Blagojevich was convicted on 18 corruption charges related to his governorship in Illinois. He was found guilty of attempting to manipulate the appointment of Barack Obama&#8217;s Senate successor. 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