{"id":1955,"date":"2010-06-09T13:34:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T13:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2010-06-09T13:34:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T13:34:13","slug":"the_blagojevich_trial_begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1955","title":{"rendered":"The Blagojevich Trial Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/brown\/2373272,CST-NWS-brown09.article\">Chicago Sun Times<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting today on the opening remarks made by defense lawyer Sam Adam Jr. during the trial of Rod Blagojevich, who is charged with scheming to sell or trade President Obama&#8217;s US Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Adams attempted to make the case that Mr. Blagojevich was &#8220;an insecure but honest politician who unwittingly got himself in this mess by trusting the wrong people.&#8221;&nbsp; This is going to be an interesting trial.&nbsp; There is a real&nbsp;chance here that a lot of the ugly underside of Chicago politics will be revealed in this trial.&nbsp; Evidently there are many hours of wiretapped conversations that may be played in the course of the trial.&nbsp; It will be very informative to see who was making deals and what those deals were.<\/p>\n<p>Rod Blagojevich is expected to take the stand as a witness during his trial.&nbsp; Get out the popcorn, this is going to be very entertaining.<!-- BlogBurst ContentEnd --><!-- start sidebar -->&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Sun Times&nbsp;is reporting today on the opening remarks made by defense lawyer Sam Adam Jr. during the trial of Rod Blagojevich, who is charged with scheming to sell or trade President Obama&#8217;s US Senate seat. Attorney Adams attempted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1955\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}