U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned Rod Blagojevich, a former Illinois governor whose jail sentence for corruption he commuted five years ago during his first term.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned Rod Blagojevich, a former Illinois governor whose jail sentence for corruption he commuted five years ago during his first term.
The pardoning circus continues, with the ringmaster rewarding his loyal clowns. Blagojevich’s corruption was so brazen it’d make a mob boss blush—selling a Senate seat like a discount timeshare. Yet here we are, watching political patronage masquerade as justice.
This isn’t about “clemency”; it’s about consolidating power. The same hand that freed J6 rioters—domestic terrorists by any sane metric—now scrubs a Democrat’s record. Bipartisan corruption at its finest, proving the swamp wasn’t drained—it was privatized.
Media outrage? Predictable. But let’s not pretend the propaganda mills aren’t feasting on this. Democracy’s autopsy report will cite “death by a thousand pardons.” Meanwhile, the electorate scrolls, numbed by the endless spectacle.