Patti Blagojevich never stopped defending her husband, Rod Blagojevich, even going as far as to publicly campaign for his release from prison. The financial advisor's crusade apparently struck a chord with President Donald Trump, who praised her after a May 2018 appearance on Fox News. During her appearance, Patti compared her husband's plight to that of Trump, who was in the midst of a probe led by special prosecutor Robert Mueller. "I see these same people who did this to my family, these same people that secretly taped us and twisted the facts and perverted the law that ended [with] my husband in jail. These same people are trying to do the same thing ... just on a much larger scale," she lamented about the investigation into possible Russian meddling in the 2016 election. "They were emboldened. They took down a governor and now they've got their sights much higher."
Patti repeatedly referenced Mueller in additional interviews, as well as Trump's other nemesis, former FBI Director James Comey, to seemingly put forth a conspiracy against her husband. "Mueller was director of the FBI when Blagojevich was investigated, and Comey was deputy attorney general," John Haltiwanger reported for Business Insider about the supposed links. "Comey's good friend, Patrick Fitzgerald, spearheaded the prosecution of Blagojevich as the US Attorney in Chicago."
Playing to the president's trigger points paid off, and at one point, he called Patti "one hell of a woman."
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