Trump’s Bribery Apprentice? How Failed Bribery Plot Put Governor In Prison For 14 Years | MSNBC

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

44 comments

    1. 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….

    1. @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

    2. @John Dowling
      Even if Buden did go down Trump is still a failure and career criminal. What else you got? Facts only. NOT LIES.

    1. INSTANTDOPELORD It’s becoming more clear every day that Obama’s administration was the most corrupt this country has ever seen.

    1. 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.

    2. Trump technically is wiretapped. All the calls he makes with foreign leaders are monitored. Maybe it’s not enough.

  1. Lived in Illinois when Blagojevich was the crooked Governor!! Ughh and Ryan and lived in Crook County I have has enough of corruption!!

  2. 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.

  3. “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!

  4. “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.”

    1. 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?

  5. Grrrr. You just made me watch more of The Apprentice than I’d ever seen before. Excuse me. I have to disinfect my eyeballs.

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