{"id":4935,"date":"2010-04-23T01:57:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T05:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2010-04-23T01:57:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T05:57:32","slug":"obama-to-testify-in-blago-corruption-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4935\/obama-to-testify-in-blago-corruption-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to Testify in Blago Corruption Trial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is rich.\u00a0 On Thursday, attorneys for ex-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs2chicago.com\/governor\/blagojevich.obama.subpoena.2.1650066.html\" target=\"_blank\">filed a motion to subpoena President Barack Obama as a witness<\/a> in Blago&#8217;s upcoming corruption trial.\u00a0 You may remember ole\u2019 Rod was arrested and impeached for trying to parlay Obama\u2019s vacant Senate seat into cash or a job.\u00a0 Apparently, one of the government\u2019s key witnesses against Blago will offer testimony that is directly contradicted by the president\u2019s public statements.\u00a0 Blago\u2019s attorneys want to rebut the prosecution\u2019s witness with testimony from someone who knows how Illinois politics are played.<\/p>\n<p>This could get interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is rich.\u00a0 On Thursday, attorneys for ex-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich filed a motion to subpoena President Barack Obama as a witness in Blago&#8217;s upcoming corruption trial.\u00a0 You may remember ole\u2019 Rod was arrested and impeached for trying to parlay Obama\u2019s vacant Senate seat into cash or a job.\u00a0 Apparently, one of the government\u2019s key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,685,933],"class_list":["post-4935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-political-corruption","tag-rod-blagojevich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4939,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions\/4939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}