Blagojevich: Will call Emanuel, Reid, Menendez in retrial

thehill.com ^ | August 22,2010 | Jared Allen

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Sunday that he would call a host of high-profile witnesses -- including White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel -- to testify if he is retried on corruption charges.

Blagojevich, in a combative interview on "Fox News Sunday," said he was ready for a second trial on charges that he tried to sell President Barack Obama's former Senate seat. Federal prosecutors have vowed to retry Blagojevich after a jury deadlocked on all but one of 24 criminal counts the government brought against the fiery Democrat.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

" "In the second round, we're going to put a defense on, I'm sure," Blagojevich said, vowing to call Emanuel, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), DSCC Chairman Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) to testify in his defense."

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

He can call them

but will they come?

[Da Coyote]

Is there a Chicago crook NOT in the Obamaloon administration (except for Blago-felon, of course)?

[hinckley buzzard]

Now this would definitely be popcorn time, except that Immanuel and the others will be struck with early-onset alzheimers and will not remember a thing.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh goody goody goody he’s going to try to pull the whole Rat tree down this time.

[righttackle44]

A retrial in Chicago? Where someone has already gotten to a juror?

It is to laugh.

[doc]

The system is truly broken if this guy is not convicted.

[shelterguy]

Boy, whodathunk this trial would not even make the news? /s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s

Nobody getting frog marched off to jail, no weekly calls for someones head on a platter, nobody in the White House tied into it, etc. Weird.

[The Comedian]

I see the amusements are about to begin afresh.

Bring hither my royal popcorn, and my royal comfy footstool...

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[hoosiermama]

Don’t forget your “FRink”! A term coined by Onyx after a late night of research!

[nhwingut]

Translation: Call off the feds. Or you’re all going down.

[USS Alaska]

Other than FOX will any of the drive byes carry any of the blago-news?

Only if fitzy refuses to listen to obama/holder and presses for a retrial will any lefty news mention any of this trial or people that are connected.The media might even shift and go against fitzy if the trial actually begins and starts to really hurt the demonRATS and especially the one.

[onyx]

FRink is a term used on Mark Levin threads!

[InterceptPoint]

My predictions:

• No retrial until after the November election
• Nobody from the White House will testify
• Blago will be convicted

[onyx]

I just make a whole lot of typos...LOL. pVhicago.

“nump” was mine from a long time ago - I meant bump...lol.

Yesterday, I posted “wenbite” for website.

[Proud2BeRight]

Blago is trying to get the regime to call off the retrial. Good tactic. Threaten to drag them in to have them make it go away.

[Lancey Howard]

LOL, this is Blago’s warning to everybody. I guarantee there are lots of “negotiations” going on beneath the radar. The stench of corruption is overwhelming, from Fitzgerald and Emanuel right on down to Blago.
Peee freaking yooo.

[bigbob]

Not only the defense, but I look for the prosecution to come out with all guns blazing this time.

I think the prosecutors got tricked in the first trial. All we heard for months was how Rod could not wait to get on the stand and defend himself. So I can’t fault them for holding back some powerful stuff for the cross. The defense hoodwinked ‘em, and didn’t let Blago testify, and there they stood...

Next time, he’ll be dead meat.

[cranked]

Same claim he made in his first trial? I call BS. =.=