Anderson Cooper Shuts Down Rod Blagojevich in Heated Interview: That's 'Just B-------'

Anderson Cooper did not mince words throughout a current interview with disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

On Friday, the CNN anchor, 52, acquired in a split-screen sparring match on-air with disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose 14-year federal jail sentence was commuted last week by President Donald Trump.

At first of the interview, Blagojevich, 63 — who was in his eighth yr of his sentence on several convictions related to abuse of political power — claimed he was a “political prisoner.” As Blagojevich continued to border his plight as that of a sufferer, Cooper intervened.

“You bought out. You do have an obligation to at the least admit what you did mistaken, and you refused to try this, and also you’re creating an entire new alternate universe of details,” Cooper stated. “And that could be massive in politics immediately, nevertheless it’s still, frankly, just b——-.”

Responded Blagojevich: “It’s not b——-; I lived it myself. It’s not b——- at all.”

Blagojevich also compared his state of affairs to Nelson Mandela, the South African icon, which Cooper shut down as “simply nuts, and, frankly, offensive.”

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Amongst his crimes, Blagojevich infamously dangled an appointment to a vacant U.S. Senate seat in change for campaign money. (The vacancy was created when Barack Obama launched his 2008 presidential marketing campaign.)

He was additionally discovered responsible of making an attempt to extort a youngsters’s hospital.

The president’s grant of clemency freed Blagojevich, who appeared on The Celebrity Apprentice in early 2010 after he had already been arrested and indicted and was awaiting trial. Though Blagojevich was eradicated from the season, Trump, 73, told him on the time, “You might have a hell of plenty of guts.”

“He served eight years in jail, a very long time,” Trump advised reporters final week. “He looks like a very nice individual.”

In a press release concerning the commutation, White Home Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham stated that “during his confinement, Mr. Blagojevich has demonstrated exemplary character, devoting himself to enhancing the lives of his fellow prisoners.”

Grisham also stated that “individuals from across the political spectrum and from different backgrounds have expressed help for shortening Mr. Blagojevich’s sentence.”Grisham additionally stated that “individuals from throughout the political spectrum and from diversified backgrounds have expressed help for shortening Mr. Blagojevich’s sentence.”

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In the sharp-worded TV interview on Friday, Cooper also identified the irony in Blagojevich’s receiving clemency after, Cooper stated, many such appeals from different prisoners went ignored throughout Blagojevich’s time as governor.

After contending that the Supreme Courtroom “ all the time get it right both,” Blagojevich stated he’d discovered that the country has a “racist and corrupt” legal justice system.

“What’s unhappy is that you simply hadn’t truly discovered that once you mattered, once you truly have been the governor,” Cooper stated. “You speak about working for felony justice reform? There’s a whole lot of … individuals in Illinois who truly, like, spit up once you say that, because whenever you have been truly in energy … you possibly can have helped hundreds of individuals with clemency instances, you blew it off.”

Cooper referred to as Blagojevich’s newfound championing of legal justice reform “just a little unhappy and pathetic and hypocritical.”

“Look, once you’ve been put where I used to be, and you have on a regular basis I was given to assume and look back on a number of the belongings you may’ve carried out in a different way, that’s definitely an space … I definitely wish I might’ve completed extra on,” Blagojevich stated. “There’s no question about that. That’s among my largest regrets.”

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