Perhaps it’s just me. It’s late and my pills are kicking in BUT, I think this is truth being woven with lies.
“Blagojevich went out of his way to say, ‘You know I was considering your wife for the lottery job and the $25,000 you didn’t give me? That’s why she’s not getting the job,’”
Those last 7 words don’t seem like the natural flow of such a statement. They both know what their talking about, so those 7 words are not required.
Oh well, in these times, nobody can be trusted, including the MSM.
I agree, this doesn't ring true. And not just the last 7 words. The whole thing reads like an excuse written by a 12 year old--"Jesse Jr. is totally innocent and not faking it, for real!!! Signed, Jesse's Mom." Note how he gets in both the $ amount and the "fact" that he did pony up. Ridiculous. If this had actually happened, it would have been more along the lines of, "Too bad your wife's credentials came up short."
JJ screwed up with this one. Not only does this fairy tale fall flat, it negates his first song and dance. He's admitting that his claim of being blindsided was crap. His original contention was that he believed the senate selection process to be honest and he had no idea--none!--of any bidding war. If he'd been pressed to pay for his wife's appointment and had his nose rubbed in it by Blago and had actually been going to the feds for a year over shakedowns, he forfeits his claim of shock that Blago was corrupt.
He's making it up as he goes along.