Rod Blagojevich
@realBlagojevich
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Official Twitter Account of former Governor, author, speaker, podcast host. 5 Star Cameo Host- https://t.co/o4EF75l3Mu…
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AOC pretends to be handcuffed. At least when I get arrested, I get arrested for real!
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I’ve known Obama since 1995. We both come out of Chicago politics. I know how it works. He’s behind the campaign to dump 15 million Dem primary voters & replace Biden with his choice. Classic Chicago Democrat machine politics. Selection over election. The bosses over the people.
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Joe Rogan is awesome! Thanks for creating a space that allows Americans to express their right to free speech.
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Just finished a 7.5 mile run in 93 degree weather. I haven’t sweat this much since my sentencing.
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I’ve known @BarackObama since 1995. Haven’t seen him since 2008 when he sold me out after sending an emissary to me to discuss a political deal. I was just thinking about his Presidency. His leadership was as limp as his handshake. Thank God for @realDonaldTrump #MAGA.
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In 2016, the U. S. Supreme Court warned about prosecutors like Jack Smith, the guy prosecuting President Trump. In the case of a Virginia Governor, the Justices UNANIMOUSLY reversed Smith’s case, writing that “the uncontrolled power of criminal prosecutors is a threat to our.
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4 years ago today, President Trump righted a wrong & sent me home after 8 years in prison. I broke no laws & never took a penny. I am FOREVER GRATEFUL TO TRUMP! Now is the time for every American to support him and stand up against KGB style politics & save our Democracy.
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I love Trump more today than ever! When you’ve lived through it yourself you recognize when they do it to someone else. The political fix was in from the beginning. Disgraceful and corrupt convictions of the leading candidate from the opposition party by a handpicked politicized.
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RFK Jr. is right to criticize Biden’s Executive Order that led young people to think their student loans would be forgiven. He issued his Executive Order to fool them into thinking he was helping knowing all along that it would be struck down by the Supreme Court. Common practice.
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I know about winning elections. I never lost one. Turnout is everything. Forget the polls. They have become an industry in the business of cooking up numbers to feed to hungry consumers. All that matters now is that you VOTE! No way Trump loses if his supporters vote.
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I’m perplexed. The Catholic vote will decide who wins Pennsylvania, Michigan, & Wisconsin. Why would Kamala Harris disrespect Catholic voters by skipping the traditional Al Smith Dinner in NY? Every Presidential nominee has attended except Mondale in 84. Mondale lost 49 states.
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This photo was taken 16 years ago today at 10 AM. 4 hours earlier FBI agents with a 24 member SWAT team came to my home to arrest me for conversations begun by Obama. I was the Governor of Illinois. This was the birth of a weaponized DOJ that later would endlessly persecute Trump
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Trump freed me & Obama sold me out so I’m biased, but I believe Trump has done more as President in his whirlwind first 8 days than Obama did in his entire 8 years. What do you think?.
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If it weren’t for President Trump, today would be the day I’d be coming home from prison. I did 8 years of a 14 year sentence for standing up against a corrupt prosecution. Forever grateful to President Trump for what he did for me & how he’s standing up to corrupt prosecutions.
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As a twice elected Dem Governor grateful to the black community for their overwhelming support, I predict that in 2024 black voters, who are sick and tired of being taken for granted by the Dems, will vote for Trump in record numbers.
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Mayor Lightfoot campaigning today. Interesting fedora. If I wore that, they would have given me an extra 10 years.
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But for the grace of God and the kindness of President Trump, I wouldn’t be home for Christmas till 2025! I tremble just thinking about it. Christmas at home is the best of times. I’m grateful for my good fortune. Wishing all of you a wonderful Christmas.
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Don’t believe the polls. The only polls that are credible are the private polls of the candidates. They guide the candidates on where to go & what to do. VP Harris wants to debate Trump on CNN. This means her polls say SHE’S LOSING.
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Biden’s DOJ indicts Trump in the middle of a Presidential campaign and then the J6 Dem District Court imposes a gag order to deny him of his right to free speech and our right as voters to hear what he has to say. This unconstitutional corruption is being done openly in the USA.
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The actor Wesley Snipes gets 3 years in prison on tax case. Hunter Biden gets 0 years on tax case. What was a felony for Snipes is a misdemeanor for Biden. Why the different treatment?.
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Trump indicted for challenging election results. It’s now a federal crime to exercise your 1st amendment right to question the integrity of an election. When it comes to the persecution of Trump, weaponized prosecutors will criminalize anything. Jack Smith is not a prosecutor,.
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I know how it feels to be arraigned for politics. Today’s spectacle is a political hit & part of the prosecutor’s public relations strategy. Establish a fake narrative and create images to make innocent people look guilty. Grateful to President Trump for taking the blows and.
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I predict Trump will receive more black votes than any Republican since Nixon in 1960.
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Trump is going to be elected in 2024 by a wide margin. The American people get it. They know that the abuse of the courts to endlessly persecute Trump is political. For many voters previously on the fence, a vote for Trump is a vote against those who are destroying our democracy.
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It’s brutal to have to sit through the closing arguments of dishonest prosecutors who lie about you to the jury with a partisan judge allowing the lies. My heart goes out to President Trump for having to endure this but my admiration for his strength & love of country grows.
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What a thrill to watch President Trump give his acceptance speech last night at the Republican Convention. Very moving. Trump is strong, brave, smart & KIND. He wants to Make America Great Again. Who could be against that? Trumpocrats for Trump!
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Trump is growing a coalition with support from Hispanics, blacks, union households, working class voters & voters without a college degree-my voters & I was a Democrat. Prediction: These Forgotten Americans will elect Trump & it won’t be close.
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President Trump FIRED me, FREED me, and now he’s getting F***ED like me. Weaponized prosecutors are destroying our country. It’s time for Republicans and Democrats to stand up and defend our Constitution against 3rd World politics.
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Just landed at Reagan Airport in DC. In the late 90’s, I was 1 of only 17 Dems who voted to name the airport after Reagan. Why not? He was a former Democrat & a great President. BTW, I was a Reagan Democrat before I became a Trumpocrat. Wishing President Trump great success.
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If Republican voters want to finish the job to dismantle the Deep State, reform the FBI, DOJ, & CIA, return power to the people, & win in 2024, why not unite behind Trump, raise $, organize grassroots to fight Dems, & stop wasting resources fighting each other?.
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When Trump says he is being prosecuted only because he is running for President or because he is ahead in the polls he is 100% right. It’s the new politics in America. Invent crimes against people in politics who take on the ruling class.
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The fraudulent NY fraud trial against Trump begins tomorrow. No way Trump gets a fair trial before a Dem judge whose daughter is a Dem fundraiser. Nor will he get a jury of his peers. It will be a jury made up of Dems who hate Trump. Political prosecutions destroying democracy.
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Jeffrey Epstein did NOT kill himself. A guy like that uses what he knows about others to lessen his punishment. I spent 2896 days in prison, the first 32 months behind the barbed wire fence living in a 6x8 prison cell. I saw how prison works and how cowardly scumbags operate.
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RFK Jr.’s endorsement of Trump reminds me of the inspirational words his father used to say: “Some men see things as they are & ask “Why?” I dream things that never were and say “Why not?” A new coalition led by two men with courage taking on a corrupt political establishment.
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The Democrats are the ones trying to keep Trump off the ballot in over 30 states yet they claim Trump is the threat to democracy. Breathtaking hypocrisy about democracy.
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When I think about the shit Trump goes through I wonder why does he do it? Only one answer. He LOVES OUR COUNTRY. Proud of President Trump for having the courage to stand up & fight back!.
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In the midst of the sexual harassment storm surrounding Gov. Cuomo, the bigger scandal is the massacre at the nursing homes in New York! Let's not forget those victims and their families.
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No criminal charges vs Biden for DOCUMENTS but criminal charges vs Trump? I went to prison for conversations INITIATED by Obama. He went on to the White House for 8 years & I went to the sh** house for 8 years. Unfair double standard. Equal protection under the law doesn’t exist.
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Working on my new podcast, Lighting Rod Today. Sure beats washing pots and pans in prison.
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Trumpocrats For Trump! The guy on the left is me. The guy on the right is Trump.
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As a twice elected Dem Governor from a big state I see clearly what’s happening to Biden’s Dem Party. The once lunatic socialist fringe has become mainstream. It’s migrants over the black community, criminals over the police, the state over parents & terrorists over Israel.
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Jack Smith is asking the Judge to gag President Trump & prevent him from explaining his case to the public. To this day, Obama’s 302’s & 98% of FBI tapes that show innocence in my case continue to be covered up. This is America? Where they lie about you and then silence the.
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Prediction for 2024. Trump will become the 47th President of the United States. Wishing you all a healthy, happy, and prosperous New Year.
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Expert advice for NY Mayor who was indicted today: If you did it, quit. If you didn’t, you have a DUTY to the people & the rule of law to “Fight! Fight! Fight! against weaponized prosecutors who bring fake charges against Presidents, Governors, and, maybe, NY Mayors.
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Consider the endless persecution Trump has to face. Very hard. I ask, Why would he put himself through that when he can enjoy life & the things his great success brought him? Only reason is he must truly love his country & believes he can fix it, and make it great.
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Of course the Trump family got screwed in the NY court by Judge Engoron, the partisan Democrat political hack. Trump never had a chance. It’s another example of a politicized court butchering the rule of law, suffocating justice, and turning America into a fascist country.
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Grateful to Joe Rogan for having me on his podcast and for being the champion of free speech.
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Last night I heard someone say, “Is that Blago at Mar-A-Lago?”Forever grateful to President Trump for firing and then freeing me. Honored to be at his Letters To Trump book launch. And honored to be in his book!
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Hamas leader is now calling for a global “Day Of Rage” and for his followers to carry out terror attacks across the globe. Let’s be clear: Those members of the Democratic Party who refuse to call Hamas, a terrorist organization are not just disgraceful. They are dangerous!
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Weaponized DOJ is now indicting Pres. Trump for non crimes and for things every President does just as the same DOJ condemned me to prison for 14 years for things every politician does. Selective prosecution for me and now for President Trump. What’s happening to America?
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The blame game begins. Biden is blaming Obama & Pelosi for forcing him out. Harris is blaming Biden for sabotaging her campaign. Dem pundits are calling blacks & Latinos misogynists for voting for Trump. They Dems didn’t lose because they stabbed each other in the back. They lost.
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If Donald Trump withdrew from Afghanistan in the same fashion Joe Biden just did, the press would say that he’s a Russian agent working to undermine America. Who agrees?.
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U. S. Sen. candidate Steve Garvey and I have some things in common and not in common. We both love baseball. He was great, I sucked. We both voted for Trump. He’s a Republican, I’m a Democrat. We both do Cameos. He charges more. And we both know that Adam Schiff is a liar.
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Can’t wait for Trump to be elected president so he can say to the head of the Secret Service the same thing he said to me on Celebrity Apprentice. “You’re fired!”.
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Trump’s base is devoted & loyal to him because Trump has been devoted & loyal to them. They know that Trump, unlike most fake people in politics who are all lip service & no action, actually fights for them & takes a beating for them. A lot of forsaken Dems are rooting for Trump.
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The party that claims it is saving Democracy undemocratically blocked RFK Jr.’s efforts to challenge Biden in Dem primaries only to then dump the winner of those primaries to nominate a candidate who didn’t win a single vote from a single Dem voter. Bosses over the Right to Vote.
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Censoring former Presidents from social media is something you’d expect from the Taliban, not Twitter.
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Did you know that the Dem Judge in NY has no constitutional authority to compel Trump to sit through his trial? The reason the Judge is doing this is to allow Biden to campaign in Pa. & prevent Trump from doing it. Election interference by a partisan hack judge.
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What I saw yesterday was a DIVERSE crowd made up of people who looked a lot like my voters. I was a Democrat! Trump is leading a historic political realignment made up of decent,hardworking people who love America & yearn for a country that no longer forgets them.
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Michael Cohen, the guy who used to brag that he would “take a bullet for Donald Trump,” is now about to testify against him at the fraudulent civil fraud trial in NY. I saw dozens of cowardly Michael Cohens in prison. Liars like him are a corrupt prosecutors dream.
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The Rittenhouse case shows how CNN and MSNBC knowingly force feed MISINFORMATION and shamelessly use race to divide us. They don’t care if they destroy innocent people so long as they sell newspapers and advance their political agendas. Justice must be colorblind.
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DOJ is charging Menendez for disrupting criminal probe of people accused of bribing him. Isn’t that what VP Biden boasted he did on videotape by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine if a prosecutor investigating his son’s company wasn’t fired?
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As a prosecutor, Kamala Harris blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from Death Row & she incarcerated 1500 people for marijuana, even though she admitted to using it herself at a time when it was illegal. Is this the person we want to be our next President?.
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How can you trust a politician to be loyal to the people when they can’t be loyal to the person who gave them a big job? Trump made Nikki Haley U.N. Ambassador only to see her run against him when the partisan persecutions heated up. Disloyalty. Opportunism. Typical politician.
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Unlike Gavin Newsom, when I spin a basketball no kid gets hurt!
This Gavin Newsom video is something. Dude thinks he's on the Globetrotters. Keeps trying to spin a basketball on his finger and then commits an egregious offensive foul on a little Chinese kid and then wrestles him after he knocked him over.
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Now that Trump successfully won his defamation case against ABC for calling him a “rapist,” when will he sue Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker for repeatedly lying & calling him the same thing?
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Trump wants his D. C. trial televised but prosecutor is objecting. Dem prosecutor & Dem judge don’t want the world to see how rigged the trial will be. Why not let cameras in? The side that favors back room trials and covers up tapes is the side that perverts justice.
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Biden is free to campaign while Trump is stuck in a NY court to defend bogus criminal charges brought by Biden’s Dem allies. This isn’t democracy. It’s election interference.
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This is a statement I sent to the NY Post when asked about whether I am “eyeing an Ambassadorship.” . I’m not eyeing it. I’m not asking President Trump for anything. I’m profoundly grateful to him for commuting my 14 year prison sentence and giving my daughter’s their father.
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8 years in prison for politics, not crimes, disconnected me from the real world. I never heard of Elon Musk until I got home. Boy is he great-and pretty smart, too. Together with Trump, they will save FREEDOM in America.
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My heart goes out to President Trump and his family. The hardest part of being on the receiving end of the politics of persecution and personal destruction is not the pain it brings to you, but the pain it brings to your family. Still, you can’t give in. It’s not a time to do
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Prayers for President Trump and his well being. This is grace under fire and what true leadership is all about.
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This photo was just sent to me. It’s me in prison with a few of my friends. I‘ve been writing a book about that experience. BTW, I didn’t do it!
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Priscilla Presley with my daughter Annie and me. She has endured the loss of a child with grace and courage. She has a new movie out called Priscilla based on her book. I’m writing a book based on my experience with KGB style weaponized prosecutions and imprisonment.
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The Dems can’t win without Pennsylvania & putting the Pa. Governor on the ticket would have helped. The only reason Shapiro wasn’t chosen is because a woman of color didn’t want to alienate the large number of anti Semite voices in today’s Dem Party.
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While writing my book, I remembered the day I got a visit from the prison shrink checking on me. This was the day Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell reportedly after committing suicide. The Warden was concerned that I might be contemplating doing the same thing. I was.
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Obama tweeted today about his opposition to books being censored. Since he opposes censorship, I invite him to join me in my request to uncensor his FBI interview from my case. It’s still being covered up. What are they hiding?@barackobama.
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Chicago in 2021: 39 mass shootings, 1000 people shot, 126 fatally, nearly 80% of them black. But Lightfoot, Pritzker, and the Dems continue to wage war on the police not on the gangbangers. Defend don’t defund the police. Support the police and save Black lives.
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J.B. Pritzker wants to be Kamala Harris’ running mate. But how can she pick a guy who told me on an FBI tape that my desire to appoint a black person to the U.S. Senate was my “black problem?” Typical elitist white liberal racism from a Democrat who inherited $3B dollars.
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Watching the returns. Haven’t felt this anxious since waiting for the jury to come back at my second trial. Cautiously optimistic this outcome will be far better than that!!!.
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The DNC is now suing RFK Jr. to keep his name ON the ballot when before they sued to keep him OFF the ballot. When he wanted to run they blocked him. Now when he doesn’t want to run they’ve taken him to court to force him to run. Lawfare by the Flip Flopping UNDEMOCRATIC PARTY.
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George Clooney has just issued a statement from his $107 million dollar summer retreat in Italy urging President Biden to quit. Hollywood play actors & Wall Street financiers have replaced working people & black people as the new base of today’s Democratic Party. Dems For Trump!
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The Dem DA in Ga. is getting ready to bring another round of criminal charges against Trump. NEVER BEFORE in American history has any leading Presidential candidate been charged with crimes until now. How can any fair minded person not see how blatantly political & corrupt theses.
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What a disappointment Nikki Haley is. Trump promotes her to be UN Ambassador. A big job. Then his persecutors go after him from all sides. But instead of standing with him, she runs against him. No loyalty. The good news is the voters are getting it right.
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Epstein didn’t kill himself. I’m an expert on prison and how the government covers up the truth. They are still covering up 98% of FBI tapes that show MY innocence & Obama’s 302’s & now important documents related to Epstein’s death. The side that hides, is the side that lies.
The U.S. government claims Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in a federal detention facility in Manhattan four and a half years ago, just before his trial. If that’s true, why are there so few records available from that night? Here’s Mark Epstein trying to get a copy of one of the
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Woke Retailers who’ve supported efforts by BLM and the ACLU to defund the police are now pleading with Congress to do something to stop the whirlwind of SMASH and GRAB robberies. It goes to show you. Sometimes in life you reap what you sow.
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“Real Freedom Fighters are willing to lose their freedom in the fight for freedom. His willingness to suffer for what he believes is right is an inspiration. He’ll get through this & come out a better man. I know what I’m talking about. I spent 8 yrs as a political prisoner.
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VERY PROUD of President Trump for standing against those destroying the RULE OF LAW. I now wear my mug shot like a BADGE OF HONOR. Never give in and always stand up to corrupt weaponized prosecutors who are the single biggest threat to our freedom.
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12 years ago today I walked into prison to serve 14 years for practicing politics. Weaponized prosecutors did to me then, what they are doing to Trump now. I would NEVER GIVE IN & neither is Trump. Some things are so important you must be willing to go down fighting!
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It’s the greatest political comeback in American history. President-elect Donald Trump is America’s Winston Churchill. What a badass! He will do great things for America.
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It’s time for Democrats & Republicans to come together to save our democracy. Reject the politics of prosecution, persecution, and personal destruction. Democrats for Trump!. #DemocratsForTrump.#Trumpocrats
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Kevin McCarthy is not Speaker of the House without the help of Donald Trump. Why hasn’t McCarthy endorsed Trump yet? Whatever happened to loyalty?.
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Obama released terrorists from prison. I endorsed him and helped him get elected. He let me rot in prison for routine politics, virtue signaling that he somehow never participated in the political game when he was the one who started the conversations that sent me to prison.
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Trump expected to visit Detroit to show support for striking UAW workers. Not your typical corporate country club Republican. This is why he is such a threat to the political establishment. Trump is a different kind of Republican. He fights for and supports working people.
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A non political Judge has a duty to dismiss Trump’s case for insufficient evidence of a crime. But watch out for this Dem Judge to allow for unlawful custom tailored jury instructions telling the jury that routine and legal acts are crimes. This is what political prosecutions do.
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Donald Trump just did something Bill Clinton never did the two times he was elected President. Trump won over 50% of the popular vote. Trump is leading a historic political realignment turning the Republican Party into the party of the working class.
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I can spot a corrupt smear campaign a mile away & that’s what the DC establishment, Dems, & Liz Cheney Republicans have been doing to Pete Hegseth. Whenever someone from the outside comes in to change things on the inside, the Deep State pulls out its long knives. Keep fighting!.
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Did Obama improperly intervene to convince the Illinois Supreme Court to overturn the convictions against Jussie Smollett? A fair question especially since Michelle Obama was previously successful in getting Kim Foxx to drop those same charges. Equal protection under the law does.
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The media hardly covers it but on Friday a federal judge in New Hampshire dismissed a 14th Amendment challenge by Dems seeking to keep Trump off the ballot & prevent him from running for President. Weaponized prosecutors & spurious lawsuits are being misused to stop Trump from.
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Don’t listen to the naysayers & the chattering class. I know the business & never lost an election. Trump is going to win over the undecided voters. As Clinton used to say, “It’s the economy stupid.” On the issue of which candidate will make MY LIFE BETTER Trump wins hands down.
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