The former Illinois governor said he was a political prisoner and demanded that Cooper help him reform the criminal justice system. The CNN host shut him down.
In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich evoked Nelson Mandela and said he had been a “political prisoner” and unfairly targeted.In a fiery rebuke, the CNN host rejected Blagojevich’s claim that so-called “corrupt prosecutors” were responsible for his conviction on 18 felony corruption charges for campaign finance violations and bribery.
“And you’re creating a whole new alternate universe of facts, and that may be big in politics today, but it’s still frankly just bullshit.”Blagojevich was the Democratic governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009, when he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption. He attempted to sell the former U.S. Senate seat of newly elected President Barack Obama through his power as governor to appoint someone.
Blagojevich attempted to use his interview with Cooper to defend his reputation and redirect the attention to corruption in the criminal justice system.
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