Rod Blagojevich joins Greta Van Susteren for a candid and wide-ranging conversation on this episode of Greta Wire.
The former Illinois governor looks back on the prosecution that ended his political career, his years in federal prison, and why he believes he was an early target of the same kind of “lawfare” later used against President Donald Trump.
Greta and Blagojevich revisit the Obama Senate seat controversy, the legal arguments at the center of his trial, and the evidence he says should have been heard in full. He also shares what prison was really like — from the harsh realities of incarceration to performing Elvis songs with a prison band — and reflects on the personal toll the case took on his wife and daughters.
Blagojevich also discusses President Trump’s decision to commute his sentence and later pardon him, and explains why he now describes himself as a “Trumpocrat.”
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Topics in this episode:
Rod Blagojevich’s conviction and prison sentence
the Obama Senate seat controversy
claims of political prosecution and lawfare
life inside federal prison
President Trump’s commutation and pardon
family, faith, and second chances
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