“I, like most people from my home state of Illinois, am a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln,” Blagojevich writes from his current home state of Colorado, location of the Federal Correctional Institution-Englewood. “It’s hard to know where to begin,” Rutgers University historian David Greenberg replied when I inquired about Blagojevich’s historical scholarship. He tweeted out a poll showing that a majority of Republicans think Trump is a better president than Lincoln was. Blagojevich has been angling for Trump to commute his sentence, a possibility Trump has floated; Blagojevich’s wife has made appeals on Fox News, and Blagojevich recently appeared shirtless, Putin-style, in the prison yard. With four more years in prison, there’s no telling how much more damage the former governor could do to U.S. history.

Source: Washington Post January 02, 2020 22:59 UTC