Anderson Cooper must have expected it. I know I would have. What next, political prisoners. Amazing.
February 22, 2020
By Grace Hauck
Ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (click here) again proclaimed himself a "political prisoner" Friday night in a heated interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.
Blagojevich, a one-time contestant on "The Celebrity Apprentice," was convicted in 2011 of federal charges of using his powers as governor to extract campaign money and other political favors in exchange for naming a successor to fill the Illinois Senate seat left open when Barack Obama became president.
Blagojevich walked out of federal prison Tuesday after President Donald Trump commuted his 14-year sentence. He served nearly eight years.
"I am a political prisoner," Blagojevich said on CNN, echoing claims he made earlier in the week.
Cooper wasn't having it....
I will tell you who the real political prisoners are:
A Venezuelan teenager named Branyerly stands on an international bridge connecting Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico, before she requested parole from U.S. border officers on Feb. 17, 2020.
Houston - A Venezuelan teenager (click here) has been forced back to Mexico by U.S. government authorities who denied her claims that she was fleeing political repression and violence, even after they accepted the same claims from her father.
The teenager, who is being identified by only her first name, Branyerly, is living alone in Matamoros, Mexico, across from Brownsville. U.S. border agents on Monday denied her request not to be sent back under the Trump administration’s so-called “Remain in Mexico” program for migrants.
Branyerly and her father could not request asylum under another Trump policy, a ban on most asylum claims at the southern border for people who came through a “third country.” But in January, an immigration judge allowed her father, Branly, into the U.S. by granting what’s called withholding of removal, which requires meeting a higher legal standard....
Blago has a whole lot of reality to catch up on before he goes around screaming political prisoner. I hope someone has taken Branyerly somewhere safe, because the pimps are already watering at the mouth.
This is the Border Patrol at it's best, huh?
