MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on a troubling case for Pres. Trump’s Ukraine scandal — how Governor Rod Blagojevich’s failed bribery plot led to his impeachment, and a conviction that landed him in jail for 14 years. The former “Apprentice” contestant was caught on tape seeking a bribe in exchange for appointing the replacement for Barack Obama’s senate seat. The legal precedent shows how a politician can be convicted for a bribery felony, even when the plot fails, and how under the law, “merely demanding” a bribe without receiving it constitutes the crime of bribery. Melber also reports that Trump discussed pardoning Blagojevich in comments after Trump’s infamous call with Ukraine’s President, which Congress is investigating as a potential bribery solicitation. Aired on 11/26/19.
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Trump's Bribery Apprentice? How Failed Bribery Plot Put Governor In Prison For 14 Years | MSNBC
There has not been a President in the US since Obama left. All that squats in the WH now is a Russian asset.
Diane Owen The FBI has determined that the Steele dossier was fabricated. Only complete imbeciles are continuing the “Russian asset” narrative that CNN/MSNBC suckered you with. Stop being a complete imbecile….
@John Dowling I repeat, you went right to “what about Hillary”. Weak and predictable.
http://www.unz.com/jpetras/presidential-rule-by-deception-obama-the-master-con-man/?fbclid=IwAR1cpiQ4qg1eP2LqhJcBEiPxtEnZapuK9p_XAGAe3clFHsFSLqP61YX__l0
@Red Hawk you should have found the video nobody on this thread is going to read that… LOL
@John Dowling no, it wasn’t Hilary personally.
Who around Trump is not a criminal. Very few.
@V At least Nixon was smart!! He resigned……
@An Sar that’s easy how about 7 billion dollars laundered through the Ukraine by the Obama Administration which Joe Biden got 14 million dollars from and that’s why Obama is not supporting Joe Biden with his campaign because he knows old Joe is going down with his son
@John Dowling
Even if Buden did go down Trump is still a failure and career criminal. What else you got? Facts only. NOT LIES.
If he had a jury full of people that needed him to stay in power, he would’ve been acquitted.
Justice wouldn’t have been served, but cheeseburders might have been.
I needed that Obama moment! thank you!
http://www.unz.com/jpetras/presidential-rule-by-deception-obama-the-master-con-man/?fbclid=IwAR1cpiQ4qg1eP2LqhJcBEiPxtEnZapuK9p_XAGAe3clFHsFSLqP61YX__l0
Red Hawk 🖕🏻🖕🏻
@Red Hawk ha, that looks credible 😂😂
Excellent reporting! Quid Pro Quo comparison!! Trump is a hypocrit!!!
Ahhhhh!! The good ol days.. 🥺
INSTANTDOPELORD It’s becoming more clear every day that Obama’s administration was the most corrupt this country has ever seen.
From the Audacity of Hope, to the Audacity of a Dope!
How do you spell bribery: t r u m p
shimmy 1973 Schermerhorn
B I D E N
@Rod Allen He will have to be in office first. They are working on that..
Wish they had Trump wire tapped 🧩
The politician in this story didn’t know he had been taped. How do you know that the FBI don’t have Trump on tape? Maybe just like they did before they arent showing their hand at this stage until after the impeachment, just like they did before.
I think the FBI has a tape
Trump technically is wiretapped. All the calls he makes with foreign leaders are monitored. Maybe it’s not enough.
“lordy, I hope there are tapes”
Elvis would be turning in his grave
MIB said he went home ! !😶
😭😥 oh how I miss President Obama
“That’s bad, and that’s not even the smoking 🔫.” 🤣 🤣 🤣
When America had class, morals, and eloquence…sighhh
http://www.unz.com/jpetras/presidential-rule-by-deception-obama-the-master-con-man/?fbclid=IwAR1cpiQ4qg1eP2LqhJcBEiPxtEnZapuK9p_XAGAe3clFHsFSLqP61YX__l0
Ingram is a fake blonde 👱🏼♀️
Ingram is a fake human.
Lived in Illinois when Blagojevich was the crooked Governor!! Ughh and Ryan and lived in Crook County I have has enough of corruption!!
I look forward to the day America says, “You’re Fired!” to the guy who made that his tagline.
Because that day marks the day when it’s possible that t’rump gets Blagojevich’ed and dragged off to prison.
I can hardly wait.
“I would like you to do us a favor though …” = Quid Pro Quo = Tit for Tat!
If the school yard bully comes up to you on the playground, at recess, and says, “I’ll let you keep your lunch, if you give me 5 bucks!”
My “new” crystal clear “Quid Pro Quo” for all the tRump Supporters who just don’t get it!
“If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.”
Grandraplady akaAMB Are you talking about the Clinton Foundation and the hundreds of millions they received from Russia? Or the Bidens and the millions they took from Ukraine?
“was there a quid pro quo, the answer is yes”
Grrrr. You just made me watch more of The Apprentice than I’d ever seen before. Excuse me. I have to disinfect my eyeballs.