He went to prison for eight years after trying to 'sell' Obama's Senate seat and was freed by Trump… whatever happened to Governor Rod Blagojevich?

Daily Mail always has to repeat the initial lie!1/3

15:55 EDT 21 May 2026,

These days, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is enjoying his second chance at making a 'good living.'

The Democrat traded a 50,000sq ft mansion for a 6-by-8 prison cell after he was caught on an FBIwiretap trying to auction off Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat to the highest bidder in 2008.

In February 2020, Republican President Donald Trump granted him a full pardon, something Blagojevich remains immensely thankful for, he told the Daily Mail in a phone interview this week.

'Well, every day's a new adventure,' the former governor, now 69, said. 'I've been given this new beginning by President Trump, which I firmly believe he acted as an instrument of God, because it was a miracle that brought me home from the deep, dark valley that I was in.'

With COVID striking almost immediately after Blagojevich returned home to his wife and two daughters, it took some time to get back on track – not least because he was making only $62 a year while locked up.

So, six years after walking out of prison, what's he up to now?

'I do consulting, I do some lobbying, and I have a book coming out … called "Framed, F***ed and Freed,"' he revealed.

Yes, that really is the title, with the four-letter word slightly obscured on the cover.

Blagojevich said the book, due for release this fall, 'is the story that starts with one president, Obama, ends with another, Donald Trump.

'And most of it's about a governor in prison with Crips and Bloods and Gangster Disciples and Sinaloa Cartel drug dealers, who look up to the drug lord El Chapo like my daughters look up to Taylor Swift.

'I was in there with murderers. I went from a 50,000-square-foot governor's mansion to a six-foot-by-eight-foot prison cell. I went from talking to Obama one day to Smelly Socks and Mr B on another day,' he said, in reference to the nicknames of fellow inmates.

Blagojevich ==said he felt an obligation to help his 'long-suffering family' financially after leaving prison.=

He has done so, in part, by registering to become a foreign lobbyist, representing the Republic of Srpska.

'It's the part of the former Yugoslavia where my grandparents on my mother's side come from,' he explained.

There is also the work he is doing to help Anne Pramaggiore, the former CEO of Illinois utility giant Commonwealth Edison, through the clemency process.

Pramaggiore, he contends, was scapegoated by the political powers and is 'completely innocent.'

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15828681/rod-blagojevich-trump-obama.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

Look at the Smug Mafia on the right with Durbin next to him.

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The former CEO was convicted in a bribery scandal involving the ex-Illinois House Speaker.

She reported to federal prison in January for a two-year sentence but was released in April after being granted a new trial on appeal.

Others seeking pardons from the President have come to Blagojevich, too, though he wouldn't name names.

'I turn down most of them because I don't feel like I should ask the Trump administration for anything that's not worthy, right?'he said.

Blagojevich is also involved with Weaponization Watch, a group that provides resources to people who believe they have been treated unfairly by a 'rogue' government.

As a side hustle, he continues to do Cameos – those custom video messages for fans made by an assortment of celebrities for money.

'I think the most wild one was when I got a request from a guy… to send to his boss to tell him that he's quitting his job. And that he didn't like how the boss treated him at the job,' the former governor recalled.

Asked if the man was a happy customer, Blagojevich said: 'I got a five-star rating and like a $20 tip or something.'

Ex-Governor Blagojevich performs with his appeals lawyer's band

As for a political future, he said he was approached about running for the US Senate after Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin announced his retirement.

He declined.

Blagojevich considers himself a 'Trumpocrat' – a Trump supporter who is still willing to back some Democrats.

In the Illinois Democratic Senate primary, he supported Representative Robin Kelly, who lost to Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, the candidate backed by the state's billionaire governor, JB Pritzker.

'I hope I didn't hurt her. I don't think I did,' he said, describing Kelly as a 'good, good person' who he got to know while serving as governor.

'I'm for good people. After going through what I've gone through, I'm for a Democrat if the Democrat is good, I'm for a Republican if a Republican is good,' he explained.

'And I call myself a "Trumpocrat" because I do believe President Trump is a great president doing great things for America, and I truly think he is making America great again.'

He said he supports Trump's decision to go to war with Iran, arguing that the nuclear threat is real.

But he did have one gripe about the man who granted him his freedom.

'Well, I mean, look, I love Trump and almost everything he does. I think it's great,' he said. 'However, not everything do I agree with. For example, my daughters love Taylor Swift. I wish he didn't say he hated Taylor Swift.'

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Blagojevich's case was already on Trump's radar because the two men had filmed a season of Celebrity Apprentice in 2009.

He said he had also been courted to do Dancing with the Stars but the filming would have clashed with one of his cases going to trial.

With talk of an Apprentice reboot, Blagojevich said he would be open to doing it again – but only if asked.

'Now, would I do another reality show? You know, I don't know. I wouldn't rule it out. Reality shows have been good to me and my family, right?' he mused.

'Look, if Trump asked me to do almost anything, I would do it,' he said, 'because I'm so grateful.'

He called it an 'improbable convergence of events' that first brought him into Trump's orbit 'way before he was President or anybody even thought he would be.'

Blagojevich also marveled that 'they would do to Trump what they did to me.'

Trump has long complained that he has been unfairly targeted by the government.

During his four years out of office, he was indicted on 88 criminal counts, a mix of state and federal charges.

'All of that has to serve some larger purpose,' Blagojevich said.'That's why it's important for me to be active in the Weaponization Watch organization and to advocate and try to be helpful in areas of criminal justice reform.' former CEO was convicted in a bribery scandal involving the ex-Illinois House Speaker.

But he did have one gripe about the man who granted him his freedom.

'Well, I mean, look,I love Trump and almost everything he does. I think it's great,' he said. 'However, not everything do I agree with.For example, my daughters love Taylor Swift. I wish he didn't say he hated Taylor Swift.'

Blagojevich's case was already on Trump's radar because the two men had filmed a season of Celebrity Apprentice in 2009.

He said he had also been courted to do Dancing with the Stars but the filming would have clashed with one of his cases going to trial.

With talk of an Apprentice reboot, Blagojevich said he would be open to doing it again – but only if asked.

'Now, would I do another reality show? You know, I don't know. I wouldn't rule it out. Reality shows have been good to me and my family, right?' he mused.

'Look, if Trump asked me to do almost anything, I would do it,' he said, 'because I'm so grateful.'

He called it an 'improbable convergence of events' that first brought him into Trump's orbit 'way before he was President or anybody even thought he would be.'

Blagojevich also marveled that 'they would do to Trump what they did to me.'

Trump has long complained that he has been unfairly targeted by the government.

During his four years out of office, he was indicted on 88 criminal counts, a mix of state and federal charges.

'All of that has to serve some larger purpose,' Blagojevich said. 'That's why it's important for me to be active in the Weaponization Watch organization and to advocate and try to be helpful in areas of criminal justice reform.'

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15828681/rod-blagojevich-trump-obama.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

The white hair picture is the day he was released by Trump, he looks shocked really.

>>24631224 President Trump Addresses Rigged Elections, Save America Act, and Drone TechPN

This guys belly and belly button was very distracting. He tried to steal the show. KEK

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Does anyone notice Trump’s hair is fuller than a couple of months ago. It looks very good,he looks younger. Is he anti aging?

DOJ, FBI and HHS Officials Announce Federal Fraud Charges for 15 Minnesota Individuals Who Stole $90 Million – 3,300 Investigations Ongoing

May 21, 2026 | Sundance |

USAO Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, announced the initial fraud indictments for the first set of fraudsters operating in Minneapolis, Minnesota.McDonald emphasized this is only the beginning of the arrests in Minnesota as the fraud is beyond a scale that can be appropriately explained.

Together with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz,U.S Attorney McDonald announces the first 15 individuals indicted with initial investigated theft of $90 million. The DOJ anticipates hundreds more arrests. SecretaryKennedy notes the scale of fraud is approximately 10x more than initially evaluated.

“Let me be clear upfront about something: This is not the end of our work in Minnesota,” McDonald said.

“This is the beginning of our work in Minnesota. The fraud here in Minnesota is shocking.” McDonald then pointed to Minnesota’s housing stabilization services program, which was designed to help homeless residents find and keep housing, as one of the starkest examples. The program was initially estimated in 2020 to cost about $2.5 million per year, but ballooned to more than $104 million by 2024, which McDonald attributed entirely to fraud.

What we are seeing in this storyline is the exact reason why Barack Obama and Eric Holder selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be Kamala Harris’ running mate. Former AG Eric Holder was responsible for investigating all of the potential nominees to run with Harris,and all of the Minnesota fraud was well known.

Minneapolis was/is the operational epicenter of a Marxist network that sits underneath Barack Obama and extends from Chicago through Minneapolis to Madison Wisconsin. None of this corrupt activity is a surprise to anyone who has watched how the networks operate. Union leadership like SEIU are aligned with NGO’s a various Obama community groups and operate within these regions.

Minnesota – “The fraud is enormous,” Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, was asked about former U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson’s estimate that fraud in Minnesota could total $9 billion across more than a dozen programs.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if that number is accurate or even small.

”But today, the collection of [15] cases reach 90 million in intended loss from the from the pockets of the taxpayer.”

McDonald stressed that prosecutors are focused first on individual defendants and specific cases, not a final statewide price tag.

“I don’t have the exact number, because what I do is I look at individual people committing individual crimes,” he continued. “And at the end of all of our work, we’ll tally it all up and we’ll tell you exactly how much was stolen from the American people.

“We’re focused on individual defendants.”

Federal officials said they are expanding the Midwest Health Care Fraud Strike Force into Minnesotaand adding a new Medicaid fraud strike force with 15 prosecutors who can be deployed nationwide.

“This is not the end of the beginning,” McDonald concluded at Thursday’s news conference. “This is the beginning.” (source)

BREAKING NEWS: RFK Jr. Announces Shocking Charges Against Alleged Fraudsters In Minnesota

47:06

https://youtu.be/TjAd3hahtgM

(https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/05/21/doj-fbi-and-hhs-officials-announce-federal-fraud-charges-for-15-minnesota-individuals-who-stole-90-million-3300-investigations-ongoing/

After reading this, the fraudsters should be very, very afraid!

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This is fucking disgusting what they did in Minnesota and they didn’t even service the people that legally illegible to get the support.There is NO WAY Waltz would be arrested!

RNC Research

@RNCResearch

BRUTAL

Democrat Jared Moskowitz: "We lost the last election, it wasn’t close, ok? But the fact that we can’t even tell people why, we’re too afraid to tell them the truth…they saw that we got killed in the election, we lost every swing state."

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A Democrat telling the truth about losing elections

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Nancy Mace unveils legislation to ban naturalized citizens – like Ilhan Omar, Pramila Jayapal and Shri Thanedar – from serving in Congress

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) unveiled legislation Wednesday aiming to ban foreign-born US citizens from serving in Congress and other high levels of the federal government.

The South Carolina congresswoman singled out Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.),Shri Thanedar (D-Ill.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) in announcing her joint resolution to add an amendment to the US Constitution that would prohibit naturalized US citizens from becoming federal judges, holding Senate-confirmed positions or serving in the House or Senate.

“All born in foreign countries, none were citizens by birth. All sitting in the United States Congress. All making clear every single day their loyalty is not to America,” Mace said of the trio of Democratic reps.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) unveiled legislation Wednesday aiming to ban foreign-born US citizens from serving in Congress and other high levels of the federal government.

The South Carolina congresswoman singled out Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.),Shri Thanedar (D-Ill.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) in announcing her joint resolution to add an amendment to the US Constitution that would prohibit naturalized US citizens from becoming federal judges, holding Senate-confirmed positions or serving in the House or Senate.

“All born in foreign countries, none were citizens by birth. All sitting in the United States Congress. All making clear every single day their loyalty is not to America,” Mace said of the trio of Democratic reps.

Mace noted the proposed amendmentwould impose the “very same standard the President and Vice President are already required to meet” on lawmakers and top government officials.

“The people writing America’s laws, confirming America’s judges, and representing America on the world stage should have one loyalty: America. Not any other country,” she argued.

“For too long we have allowed foreign born members to hold seats in this government while making clear they are America last, not America first,” Mace added. “We see it every day.

Mace’s resolution faces long odds of becoming law, as it must pass both chambers of Congress by a two-thirds vote and be ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures.

Jayapal, who was born in India and became a US citizen in 2000,slammed the proposal as “narrow-minded” and “xenophobic.”(bullshit, its rational)

“Instead of working to help the American people, as so many cannot keep the lights on, keep food on the table, or pay their rent, Nancy Mace is instead introducing racist legislation that denies the very history of a country that has been proudly shaped by immigrants,” she said in a statement. “This is also insulting to the hundreds of thousands of constituents who elected naturalized citizens into office.”

“With the exception of Native Americans, every person in this country – including Nancy Mace – is descended from immigrants,” Jayapal continued. “And America is made stronger by the people from across the world with diverse talents who come here to live and work.”

Jayapal called her colleagues, including Republicans “who are naturalized citizens,” to condemn the proposed amendment.

“This constitutional amendment will put an end to it.”

Twenty-six House members, including 19 Democrats and seven Republicans, were born outside of the US.

In the upper chamber, six senators – four Democrats and two Republicans – were born outside the US.

I’d vote for every day until it’s passed

https://www.aol.com/articles/nancy-mace-unveils-legislation-ban-223333798.html

The Kash Inn

@TJKashin

On October 31, 1991, a 79-year-old Mary Anne MacLeod Trump stepped out of her Rolls-Royce on Union Turnpike near her home in Jamaica Estates, Queens, when a 16-year-old mugger grabbed her purse and threw her to the ground, and what followed was not just a violent crime but the event that quietly reframed the entire final decade of her life and revealed how her son, the real estate billionaire Donald Trump, actually showed up when it mattered for the people he loved. Mary Anne's purse contained $14. She refused to let it go. The mugger beat her on the pavement, breaking her ribs, fracturing multiple bones, causing a brain hemorrhage, and inflicting permanent damage to both her sight and her hearing, injuries from which she never fully recovered.

A bread-truck driver named Lawrence Herbert witnessed the attack,chased down the teenager, and held him until police arrived. The assailant later pleaded guilty to robbery and assault and received a sentence of three to nine years in prison.

Donald Trump subsequently tracked down Lawrence Herbert and sent him a personal check specifically intended to keep Herbert from losing his home to foreclosure, a quiet, direct, and entirely unpublicized act of gratitude for a man who had saved his mother.

Mary Anne spent the last nine years of her life significantly diminished by that attack, her vision and hearing permanently impaired, surviving her husband Fred by approximately a year before dying on August 7, 2000, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, at age 88 She had come to America 70 years earlier with $50, worked in other people's mansions, married a builder from Queens, raised a future president, and in the end was mugged on her own street for $14, her Rolls-Royce parked just feet away. The death notice in the Stornoway Gazette, the newspaper of her Scottish hometown, read simply that Mary Ann Trump, aged 88, was the daughter of the late Malcolm and Mary MacLeod of 5 Tong, the fishing village she had left at 18 and never stopped belonging to.

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Another Trump enemy falls as Brad Raffensperger loses Georgia primary

MAGA billionaire Rick Jackson and the Trump-endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones advanced to a runoff in the Republican primary for Georgia governor.

5/18/26 (I can tell everyone with Georgia voters, including me hates RaffensbergerI talked to a lot of people waiting in line)

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger became the latest enemy of President Donald Trump’s to lose a Republican primary on Tuesday. (GA has known what a fraud he is, and the results proved it.)

Billionaire Rick Jackson and Lt. Gov. Burt Jones advanced to a runoff election for the GOP nomination for Georgia governor —locking out Raffensperger, who rose to prominence defending Georgia’s 2020 election results but struggled to gain traction among his party’s increasingly MAGA base.

Raffensperger’s defeat is another sign of Trump’s grip on the GOP, following the president’s wins ousting state Republican senators who clashed with him over redistricting in Indiana and Sen. Bill Cassidy’s loss in Louisiana on Saturday.

But the runoff also prolongs an already rancorous and expensive primary by several weeks. Jackson, a political newcomer who entered the race late but quickly rose in the polls, and Jones, who boasts Trump’s endorsement, are both courting the same MAGA voters.

The runoff will serve as a crucial test of the influence of Trump’s endorsement in the Republican party versus the power of Jackson’s seemingly endless cash.

Trump has repeatedly reaffirmed his support for Jones since Jackson entered the race, most recently during remarks at a February event in Rome, Georgia.The lieutenant governor spent the final few weeks of the campaign reminding voters of the president’s backing.

The spending, which is expected to balloon, has already been monstrous.Jackson has spent nearly $65 million of his own money, according to an AdImpact analysis.Jones has disbursed over $28 million over the course of the primary.

The pair’s dominance is a stark sign of just how muchthe Republican Party in Georgia has shifted right under Trump’s commandeering of the party.

Along with Raffensperger,Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr— another old-school, technocratic Republican who rejected Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election —also failed to break through during the race.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/19/raffensperger-loses-georgia-governor-primary-00929036

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Sean Duffy punches back at whiny Kirsten Gillibrand.

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‘TIP OF THE ICEBERG’: Comer sounds off on fraud crackdown

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., discusses efforts to hold fraudsters accountable

(Waltz is so stupid he thinks he’s going to get away with it. He’ll be the last one picked up as the cherry on the cake)

4:47

https://youtu.be/cYum0W1gg_4

Army veteran drops CHILLING warning on Iran…

Middle East Forum chief strategist Jim Hanson analyzes President Donald Trump’s handling of Iran, including his blockade on the Strait of Hormuz,

4:29

https://youtu.be/5vDsEss2T6Q

>>24632849. The guy interviewed explain in bloody terms what will have with f’ing around with Trump