{"id":541922,"date":"2010-04-23T08:31:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T12:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.34337"},"modified":"2010-04-23T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:00:27","slug":"blagojevich-says-obama-pushed-jarrett-for-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/541922","title":{"rendered":"Blagojevich says Obama pushed Jarrett for Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBy <strong>NATASHA KORECKI <\/strong>and <strong>CHRIS FUSCO<\/strong><br \/>\nChicago Sun-Times Staff Reporters<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO&#8211;Former Gov.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/metro\/blagojevich\/2190084,blago-asks-judge-to-make-obama-testify-042210.article\"> Rod Blagojevich&#8217;s lawyers asked a federal judge today to force President Obama<\/a> to testify at Blagojevich&#8217;s upcoming corruption trial, asserting that Obama played more of a role in the process of selecting someone to replace him in the U.S. Senate than Obama has acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>On the day before he was elected president, then-Sen. Obama personally called a union official about his desire for Blagojevich to appoint<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/metro\/blagojevich\/2190084,blago-asks-judge-to-make-obama-testify-042210.article\"> Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett <\/a>to replace him in the Senate, according to Blagojevich&#8217;s defense filing in U.S. District Court in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By NATASHA KORECKI and CHRIS FUSCO Chicago Sun-Times Staff Reporters CHICAGO&#8211;Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich&#8217;s lawyers asked a federal judge today to force President Obama to testify at Blagojevich&#8217;s upcoming corruption trial, asserting that Obama played more of a role in the process of selecting someone to replace him in the U.S. Senate than Obama has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}