Blagojevich said he was a 'political prisoner' during the interview, and Anderson Cooper wasn't having it.
of using his powers as governor to extract campaign money and other political favors in exchange for naming a successor to fill the Illinois Senate seat left open when Barack Obama became president."I am a political prisoner," Blagojevich said on CNN,"Wait a minute, you're a political prisoner? Nelson Mandela was a political prisoner. Political prisoners have no due process and are unjustly jailed," Cooper said."You're hardly a political prisoner.
Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa, spent 27 years in prison for fighting apartheid and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.Blagojevich responded to Cooper by saying that Mandela had, in fact, been convicted in a court of law. Cooper fired back that Mandela had been convicted"by a racist apartheid government, and not a jury of his peers."
Blagojevich repeatedly said Cooper was"putting words in his mouth." He claimed that he was sent to prison by"a handful of corrupt prosecutors who were abusing their power."
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