Former Dem Governor Says Black Voters Will ‘Rise Up’ Against Democrats Following Trump Verdict (VIDEO)
Former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich stated Thursday on Fox News that black voters, one of the Democratic Party’s key voting blocs, will “rise up” and instead support former President Donald Trump following his guilty verdict.
Blagojevich appeared on “Jesse Watters Primetime” to discuss the verdict. A New York jury found Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts for alleged falsified business records. A judge previously sentenced Blagojevich to 14 years for trying to sell then-president-elect Barack Obama’s Illinois Senate seat, and Trump commuted it in 2020. Watters asked the former governor about his thoughts on the former president’s case.
“I see this as déjà vu all over again. I didn’t break a single law, cross a line or take a penny. They failed to convict me at a first trial, tried me a second time, used unlawful jury instructions to criminalize things that were legal. They learned from that, and now they’re doing it at the major-league level — what they did to a Democrat governor at the triple A level — and doing it to the leading candidate of the opposition party, being done by the party in power. My party, the Democratic Party. It’s a very sad day for America on many levels,” Blagojevich stated.
“On a personal level, I’m grateful to President Trump for commuting my sentence. My heart sinks when I think about what he has to go through, what his family has to go through. My heart is broken for our country because this is serious business and these Democrats, my fellow Democrats who run the show now, are coordinating these prosecutions against Trump from the Democratic National Committee in Washington D.C. with assistance from the White House and Biden.”
“It’s so obvious to me because I’ve lived it myself. In my case, these were Bush-appointed Republicans who did it to me. Now the Democrats are doing it to Trump, but what they’re doing is they’re destroying the rule of law, our constitution, which will eventually lead to the loss of our freedom. Nothing is sacred with these people, nothing is sacred. It’s politics at all costs and forget about the law, and forget about injustice and forget about destroying somebody through prosecution, persecution and the politics of personal destruction.” (Read more from “Former Dem Governor Says Black Voters Will ‘Rise Up’ Against Democrats Following Trump Verdict (VIDEO)” HERE)
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