1. It will force the demoRATS to condemn the commutation of one of their own.
2. It is a gesture of goodwill that will take the wind out of the democRATS sails about Trump being so partisan and without compassion.
3. It will soften the political crowd up for the pardoning Flynn and Stone, who I think he will fee.
4. It is a backhanded slap at Mueller and Comey (via his buddy Gregory Craig) who put Blagojevich in prison.
5. Blago may have evidence that Obama was involved in the corruption because he was negotiating to get Valarie Jarrett into his old US Senate seat at the time Blago got caught.
“2. It is a gesture of goodwill that will take the wind out of the democRATS sails about Trump being so partisan and without compassion.”
Thanks, it was that one over which I was hoping he would not expect the Rats be pleased.
How does it hurt the Democrats to condemn the pardon of a corrupt politician from their party? All they have to say is that he was corrupt, he got caught, he was sentenced, and now Trump has pardoned him because he was on his TV show, which is what they're already saying. The Democrats distanced themselves from Blago a decade ago. It costs them nothing to say that a corrupt politician from either party deserves harsh punishment but that Trump endorses corruption by overturning the sentence.
2. It is a gesture of goodwill that will take the wind out of the democRATS sails about Trump being so partisan and without compassion.
No Democrat has any sympathy for poor put-upon Rod Blagojevich. They see him as a corrupt clown who got what he deserved. It's not like he's a poor black kid doing a long stretch for a minor crime or something.
3. It will soften the political crowd up for the pardoning Flynn and Stone, who I think he will fee.
Why would Trump pardoning a corrupt Democrat make it less of a partisan issue when he pardons his political allies?
4. It is a backhanded slap at Mueller and Comey (via his buddy Gregory Craig) who put Blagojevich in prison.
Like they care.
5. Blago may have evidence that Obama was involved in the corruption because he was negotiating to get Valarie Jarrett into his old US Senate seat at the time Blago got caught.
Right, and Blago's just been sitting on this bombshell information for ten years.