In apparent appeal to President Trump, imprisoned Rod Blagojevich argues today’s Democrats would have impeached Abraham Lincoln

The Chicago Tribune ^ | January 1, 2020 | Elvia Malagón

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Disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich rang in the new year by penning an editorial for a conservative website arguing that current House Democrats who have impeached President Donald Trump also would have tried to impeach Abraham Lincoln.

While the piece, titled “Blagojevich: House Democrats Would Have Impeached Lincoln,” does not mention Trump by name, it’s an apparent continuation of his public campaign to win clemency from the Republican president.

The Democratic former governor wrote the opinion piece from behind bars in Colorado, where he’s serving a 14-year sentence for public corruption stemming from his attempt to trade Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat for personal gains and for trying to shake down executives from a children’s hospital and within the horse racing industry for campaign contributions.

The column, published on Newsmax, argues that modern-day House Democrats also would have tried to impeach Lincoln for a number of reasons, including because of the Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery.

The column comes less than two weeks after the U.S. House, with a Democratic majority, voted to impeach Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress for trying to enlist a foreign ally to investigate a Democratic rival in the 2020 election.

In the column, Blagojevich briefly describes how he was impeached from office amid a corruption scandal, describing it as an “unhappy experience.” He was removed from office in 2009, becoming the first governor in Illinois history to be impeached.

The website’s founder, Christopher Ruddy, on Wednesday encouraged people on Twitter to urge the president to commute Blagojevich’s sentence.

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DANG!

[EvilCapitalist]

Today’s democrat’s would try to smear George Washington.

[RightLady]

many already do—slave owner

[80skid]

Arkancide in 3.......2.........

[lee martell]

Something is going on between Blago and The White House, or at least with the president. Maybe Blag will switch parties if/when he gets his sentence commuted.
However, the president has been talking about doing this for over two years. What’s stopping him?

[untenured]

Not to be a killjoy, but why is someone in federal prison able to post an article online?

[Dennis M.]

They killed Lincoln. Isnt that enough?

[GnuThere]

He said to one of the guards, “I’ve got this column and it’s F’ing golden!”

[OrangeHoof]

The Dems would have impeached a ham sandwich for Obstruction of Bowels if it denied them power.

[Fiddlstix]

.....While the piece, titled “Blagojevich: House Democrats Would Have Impeached Lincoln,” does not mention Trump by name, it’s an apparent continuation of his public campaign to win clemency from the Republican president.....

NEWS FLASH:

Those democrats of that era did "impeach Lincoln"! Permanently!!
They Murdered Him!

That Could called a form of "impeachment" since the basic idea was and is to get rid of a president!

Don't Ever Take A dimocEATs slaves away from him!
It upsets the dims no end!

[GraceG]

Hillary mourns the untimely passing of rod blagovich

[ml/nj]

I’ve forgotten the details now but I remember suspecting that Blagojevich had powerful enemies.

ML/NJ

[DoodleDawg]

Maybe Blag will switch parties if/when he gets his sentence commuted.

Just what the GOP needs.

[ml/nj]

because of the Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery.

Ignorance!

The 13th Amendment ended slavery in the US. The "Emancipation Proclamation" was just words little different than if it had outlawed slavery Australia.

ML/NJ