{"id":543651,"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.media\/index\/543651","title":{"rendered":"Blagojevich Asks Judge To Subpoena Obama As A Witness In His Corruption\u00a0Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Rod+Blagojevich+_1961_19740326_0_0_7025895_300.jpg\" 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 decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19740326-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19740326\" \/><\/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":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543651","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\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}