Trump threatening pardoning Blagojinevich

[Oklazona Bound]

Originally Posted by vacoder

All these words and you have not mentioned why Trump is contemplating intervening and what is the response on the right considering they villifiied the guy.

Clearly its a slap in the face of Obama and probably why Trump is considering this. Or perhaps Sylvester Stallone asked him to do it like the Jack Johnson pardon.

I think Blago is a character and very entertaining. I would watch his reality show if he was to do one. I watched his lawyer on CNN and it was not so cut and dry that he was guilty. His first trial he was convicted of simply making a false statement. The jury could not come up with a consensus on the serious charges. He was retried and convicted on 17 counts. His lawyer made some interesting points on all of this. I remember in the past hearing some of the wiretaps that were suppose to prove he was guilty and it was convoluted at best. So I have no idea if he is really a bad guy or got railroaded for some other reason. 93% of federal defendants get convicted. The question is are 93% of them actually guilty?

Let him out. Its not like he is going to repeat his offense.

[NeutralParty]

Blago is a sleaze ball who faced very similar charges to what Manafort and Cohen will probably be facing in the near future.

Trump is showing his campaign team members that, if they remain loyal and "don't flip," he'll pardon them too, just like he might Blaggo.

This would be a terrible decision by Trump, but he's probably too arrogant to think otherwise.

[Oklazona Bound]

Originally Posted by prospectheightsresident

I don't see how Blagojevich deserves a pardon, but I'm not opposed to commuting his and others' sentences who are not a danger to public safety. The money that it takes to incarcerate Blagojevich and others in similar situations can be spent on other things. That's the ONLY reason why I am not opposed to sentence commutation. Note, I also feel that his 6 years already served is more than enough to dissuade him from breaking the law again.

Good point. Its not like he is going to be selling any more senate seats.