Patti Blagojevich laid out these connections in interviews. The prosecution team behind the Blagojevich case said on Tuesday that despite the president lawfully exercising his clemency powers, the former governor "remains a felon, convicted of multiple serious acts of corruption".
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian and cultural critic at New York University, says: "He [Trump] clearly identifies with this man who has a harsh sentence and is a fighter.
She says the president's public views of Blagojevich "helps to create this culture in politics where loyalty is valued over ethics, and where corruption is not necessarily a negative thing".
Others point out that Trump has never condoned Blagojevich's crimes, but has focused instead on the perceived harshness of the sentence. Brennan Hart, a political consultant in Alexandria, Virginia, who worked on Trump's presidential campaign, says the president "likes people who are a little bit over the top - like a caricature of a manly man".
Presidential clemency has been a politically fraught issue for decades. President Bill Clinton pardoned a former business partner, Susan McDougal, who went to jail because she refused to testify in the Whitewater real-estate scandal. President George HW Bush pardoned key figures in the Iran-contra scandal, in which he himself was implicated.
But Trump's critics say he has gone further in the way he has politicised clemency. David Litt, a former Obama speechwriter and the author of a memoir, Thanks, Obama, says Trump's clemency for Blagojevich reveals "his own victimhood narrative". He says it will "send a message to other people who might be considering a variety of corrupt practises: if you get caught, he'll have your back".
Trump pardons Oregon cattle ranchers. Why did Trump pardon Dinesh D'Souza? Kentucky governor's pardons include murderer. Trump pardons ex-soldier who killed Iraqi. And I think it's very unfair. While Blagojevich didn't mention Trump's name in the column, his wife Patti Blagojevich tagged the president's name as she retweeted the piece. Blagojevich appears to defend Trump in the column against House Democrats' efforts, comparing the impeachment proceedings with his own criminal case, and calling the House impeachment vote an "abuse of the Constitution.
While in prison, the disgraced governor rose to fame in part because of his penchant for sartorial flamboyance, larger-than-life persona and an apparent eagerness to perform for the camera. He became known through tabloids by the mononym "Blago," and the Chicago Tribune reported that inmates inside of the prison refer to him simply as "Gov.
Blagojevich also fronted a prison band called "The Jailhouse Rockers," which his defense team used as an example of his good behavior during his appeal to no avail. We'll notify you here with news about.
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