Rod Blagojevich

Like what? Well, on the Tony side, we had Anthony Rizzo behind them.

Rod Blagojevich, former governor.

Wait, those guys are fans of that joint? And they were on social media saying, vote for these guys? Yes,

they were.

But once I made a kind of zero commitment to the law firm, I started working on a number of public bodies.

So I was, not that you'll see this at the top of my CV, I was Rod Blagojevich's first ethics appointee.

So.

And I was the first head of something called the Executive Ethics Commission in Illinois, which actually still exists and is still doing a great job trying to make the state government function in a more ethical fashion.

Really appreciate it.

Let's go out to Plymouth and check in with Rod.

Rod, welcome to All Talk.

Hey, good morning, Kevin.

You know, our trade deficits, again, prove that we have a dependency problem, and we all know for decades.

However, not all of us use technology.

That's why we have trade deficits is because they're producing what we use every day.

Appreciate it, Rod.

But above all, he fought his own party's constant attempts to raise taxes on the working families of Illinois.

Rod Blagojevich was something that no longer exists anymore, a moderate Democrat and a very successful governor.

2008, it was when this American dream, this success story, came crashing down, working to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the election of Barack Obama.

Rod Blagojevich was charged with corruption, impeached twice, and finally convicted and sentenced to 14 years, of which he actually served eight years of a sentence for a crime that did not exist.

Recently released documents by the Department of Justice tell a very different story.

Now, Rob Blagojevich was initially had his sentence commuted by President Donald Trump on February 18th, 2020.

It was only after that he was released.

commuted, that he and I became friends.

Oh, the

Rod Blagojevich.

What was this allegation? I love this stuff.

Because you want to know why I'm going to tell you, Ricky.

You're looking at it.

You're listening to this bulldung.

You've got to laugh your ass off when you hear that $2 whore who, if he didn't marry Dick Mel's daughter, nobody would know Rod Blagojevich's name.

He's too stupid to ask me if I want insurance at the airport, let alone he became the governor.

Yeah, I agree with you.

We've seen presidents of both parties, President Trump certainly pardoning or granting clemency to people like Kwame Kilpatrick and Rod Blagojevich.

And in this term, people who have made large donations to his campaign and certainly white-collar criminals.

But we also saw Joe Biden pardon his son and proactively pardon people like Dr. Anthony Fauci and members of the committee that investigated the January 6th attacks for fear that there would be retaliatory investigations against them.