{"id":723961,"date":"2010-04-23T18:39:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T22:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/blagojevich-asks-judge-to-subpoena-obama-as-a-witness-in-his-corruption-trial\/"},"modified":"2010-04-23T18:39:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T22:39:56","slug":"blagojevich-asks-judge-to-subpoena-obama-as-a-witness-in-his-corruption%c2%a0trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/723961","title":{"rendered":"Blagojevich Asks Judge To Subpoena Obama As A Witness In His Corruption\u00a0Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Rod%2BBlagojevich%2B_1961_19740326_0_0_7025895_300.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"Blagojevich asks judge to subpoena Obama as a witness in his corruption trial \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich&#8217;s team of lawyers filed papers with a Federal judge April 22, asking the court to issue a subpoena for President Obama to testify as a witness in the disgraced politician&#8217;s upcoming corruption trial. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Associated Press (AP), the motion indicates that the president has direct knowledge concerning the government&#8217;s accusation that Blagojevich attempted to sell the senatorial seat left vacant following Obama&#8217;s presidential election victory. <\/p>\n<p>While no direct accusations were brought against the president, the court documents claim that the comments made by Obama at a news conference conflict with statements made by a candidate for the seat and a labor union president. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;There are two conflicting stories and the defense has the right to admit evidence that contradicts the government&#8217;s claims,&quot; said the motion, which was obtained by news sources after blacked out portions of the documents were mistakenly revealed online for several hours. <\/p>\n<p>Before the &quot;computer glitch&quot; could be fixed, the public was able to view sealed testimony by several witnesses who reportedly said that a labor union representative spoke with Obama on Nov. 3, 2008, and that the then-Illinois senator expressed his hope that Senate Candidate B would be picked by Blagojevich as his replacement. Valerie Jarrett, a longtime friend of Obama&#8217;s and a current White House adviser, is known to be Senate Candidate B, according to <i>Fox News<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Blagojevich&#8217;s trial is expected to begin on June 3. It is still unclear whether Obama will be forced to testify. <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19740326-ADNFCR\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich&#8217;s team of lawyers filed papers with a Federal judge April 22, asking the court to issue a subpoena for President Obama to testify as a witness in the disgraced politician&#8217;s upcoming corruption trial. According to the Associated Press (AP), the motion indicates that the president has direct knowledge concerning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32kN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}