A teacher at a high school in southern <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illinois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Illinois</a> kept parents in the dark about students participating in an LGBT club, according to emails between school teachers.
A teacher at Red Bud High School purposely excluded parents from knowledge about a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) Club by calling it “Bubbles” and not inviting parents to Google meetings about the club, <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/a-statewide-gender-sexualities-alliance-advisors-group-exchange-emails-about-how-to-hide-information-from-parents-of-students-as-young-as-eleven/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emails obtained</a> by Parents Defending Education and shared with The Daily Wire show.
While no longer with the district, the teacher’s actions show how educators across the country will often push to hide information about sexuality and gender from parents.
&#8220;This is all a part of the dangerous trend of parental exclusion policies that we have seen take root in school districts across the country. These misguided school officials want to exploit their positions to influence children to hide information from their parents. Parents are the ones who maintain the right to raise their children and should not tolerate schools that want to shut them out of the process,&#8221; Michele Exner, a senior advisor for Parents Defending Education, said in a statement.
Red Bud Community Unit School District 132 Superintendent Jonathan Tallman told The Daily Wire that the teacher’s actions had been a violation of district policy, adding that the district would never support hiding any information from parents about school clubs or any school activity. 
On August 31, 2022, a teacher at Red Bud replied to <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Communication-No-parent-invite-GSA-Advisors-August-31-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an email</a> from a teacher at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-school-diversity-club-sponsor-sought-to-exclude-students-upset-over-trans-bathroom-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Waterloo High School</a> in Illinois asking about what platforms the GSA club should use in the context of some students being concerned about their parents “having access” to information about the club. GSA networks are <a href="https://defendinged.org/investigations/pride-and-prejudices/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20GSA%20Network,role”%20and%20“have%20emerged%20as" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backed</a> by Left-leaning groups and nonprofits like the Transgender Law Center and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/liberal-ford-foundation-pours-millions-into-pro-amnesty-groups-as-border-crossings-surge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ford Foundation</a>. 
“I talked about setting up a ‘class’ in Google Classroom because that&#8217;s what all of the teachers here are required to use, but some of the kids were worried about their parents having access,” the sponsor of Waterloo’s GSA &#8220;Diversity Club&#8221; wrote to a group of GSA Illinois advisors. &#8220;What platforms do you use for club communication?&#8221;
In response, the former Red Bud teacher explained how parents could be kept out of the loop. 
“We use google classroom. I don&#8217;t invite parents though. In the beginning we named it something that did not identify the group, but the kids knew what it was. ‘Bubbles’ was what they came up with. Kind of random, but they all knew,” the teacher wrote. “Good problem to have though, are you getting an increase in allies or students that identify as LGBTQ? We really need more allies in our group.”
Tallman told The Daily Wire that the teacher who wrote that email left the district at the end of the 2022-2023 school year and that the GSA club was no longer active in the district. He also said that at some point during the club’s existence, it was no longer referred to by the code word “Bubbles.”
“This district does not support, whatsoever, keeping anything from our parents,” Tallman told The Daily Wire. “It’s not going to happen here.” 
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In another email, a sixth-grade teacher with &#8220;she/her&#8221; pronouns at Dorris Intermediate School in the Collinsville Community Unity School District 10 in Illinois replied to the Waterloo teacher&#8217;s question. 
“We use ClassTag. And load the kids ‘guardian’ with their e-mail or cell number. It is a website/app platform that messages and texts too,” the teacher and yearbook coordinator <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Communication-Kid-info-as-Guardian-GSA-Advisors-August-31-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. 
Collinsville Community Unit School District 10 superintendent Brad Skertich told The Daily Wire that Dorris Intermediate has never had a GSA club and that the employee was just &#8220;sharing how they communicate with parents/families throughout the school year.&#8221; He also said that parents at the school were made aware of any club that their children participate in. 
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A man who identifies as a transgender woman has been charged in federal court and held in jail for threatening to shoot up schools and pledging to rape Christian girls in bathrooms — after local Illinois authorities released him with no bond.
Jason Lee Willie of Nashville, Illinois, who goes by Alexia N. Willie, was charged November 7 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois with 14 felony counts of Interstate Communication of a Threat to Injure, court records show. He allegedly modeled his actions off of the transgender-identifying woman who shot up the Christian Covenant School in Tennessee.
“A person in Tennessee walked into one of your schools and shot up a bunch of your Christian daughters. That’s not the last of them if you don’t shut your f***ing mouth,” Willie said, according to the indictment.
“There’s a lot of transgenders out here that are tired of being picked on and we’re going to go into the schools and we’re going to kill their f***ing children out here, and that’s the end of it. We’re at war,” he allegedly said, also saying ,“Let me put a bullet in your head.”
In August 2023, the 47-year old made a video call on an online platform in which he said, “I guarantee I’ll be in the bathroom raping your Christian daughters,” the <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67987364/united-states-v-willie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indictment</a> alleged.
“I catch your daughters in them bathrooms alone, I am gonna f*** them. I mean I am gonna f*** f*** them until they’re dead,” he said, according to the indictment.
“I’m openly a pedophile …. You can’t do nothing about us. You can cry. Cry. Put me on national television, I don’t care. I’m transgender, I’m in the bathroom raping your f*** daughters and I’m openly letting you guys know this. The Republican Party, what are you f****ts going to do about us?” he allegedly said.
Willie also criticized black people, arguing that they are Christian and don’t like transgender people.
“They’re trash, they’re Christian trash. They’re transphobic, they’re homophobic. They’re no different than the f***ing white supremacists. That’s exactly who the f*** they are. Listen, Dave Chappelle and all the blacks out here, all the black people out here talking about trannies and s***, they ain’t no different than the white supremacists either. You all bow to the same cross,” he allegedly said.
Willie also said he would inject people with HIV in the bathroom if he saw them wearing a cross, according to the indictment.
“I catch you b*****s out here with a cross around your neck in that restroom, you better know we’re going to hit you with a f***ing syringe,” he allegedly said, adding “shut the f*** up, n*****.”
The Department of Justice led with him using the n-word, burying the transgender comments later in the indictment.
Willie pleaded not guilty November 9, and Magistrate Judge Reona J. Daly ordered that he be held in jail on November 14. A <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilsd.98857/gov.uscourts.ilsd.98857.16.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proffer of evidence</a>, presented by federal prosecutors to convince the judge to hold him in jail, said that Willie made the comments in August on the video platform “MeetMe,” where his username was “Mentally Unstable.”
It said that the Perry County Sherriff&#8217;s Office had arrested him at the time, but that Willie mocked them while he was being transported to jail, predicting that Illinois would free him immediately. “I’ll get out of jail right now, you watch me. And when I get out you have no idea,” he said in a recording from a police van, federal prosecutors said.
<a href="https://reduxx.info/trans-identified-male-arrested-after-threatening-to-murder-children-in-illinois-over-transphobic-bullying/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reduxx</a> reported on October 16 about that local arrest, and Sherriff Chad Howard told the outlet that Willie&#8217;s prediction was accurate: he was released on $0 bond 48 hours after being booked. Though Willie was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, “the disorderly conduct did not stick” because “there was no one individual person or individual school directly threatened,” the sherriff said. That left only a resisting arrest charge, which Howard said because of Illinois’ new SAFE-T Act, a suspect cannot be held in jail for.
The sheriff told Reduxx that in a jailhouse interview, Willie said that when he said “we” were coming for your children, “he was speaking on behalf of the transgender community.”
Willie was released from state custody on August 17, and on August 24, Willie&#8217;s roommate contacted Perry County Sheriff’s Office to say that “Willie claimed to be learning how to use firearms and how to obtain a firearm so that she could follow through on the threats that she had made,” federal documents said.
On August 25, the FBI received another tip from MeetMe that he was still making similar comments. On November 8, the FBI arrested him, according to the federal court document.
A trial is set for January 16. Judith A. Kuenneke, a public defender listed as Willie&#8217;s representative, did not return a request for comment.
Federal prosecutors said that the FBI had repeatedly been warned about Willie by his roommate over the years, who told the bureau that “Willie goes on the internet to find preachers, or republicans, or black people,” and that “the FBI had come to his house a couple times over the last few years because of Willie’s online conduct.”
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They wrote that in December 2018, “the FBI received reports of a threat on Facebook in which Willie claimed to have killed a preacher that had molested Willie.” In November 2019, the video platform Twitch reported that he said he threatened to kill people, and mentioned people who discriminate against transgenders; the FBI interviewed him and Willie told him he didn’t mean it.
“On March 28, one day after the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, the FBI received a report that Willie posted on Facebook that there would be many more and larger attacks on Christians by transgender people and that Christians would come to know fear like never before,” it said.
The FBI has suggested that it is not treating the Tennessee shooting as a hate crime.
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A teacher at an <a class="c-link" href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illinois" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illinois" data-sk="tooltip_parent">Illinois</a> high school sought to exclude students who allegedly opposed the school&#8217;s transgender bathroom policy from meetings of the school&#8217;s &#8220;Diversity&#8221; club.
A Waterloo High School teacher and advisor to the school’s “Diversity,” (Gay-Straight Alliance) Club complained about critics of the school’s bathroom policy and looked to place tampons in boy&#8217;s bathrooms, according to <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/emails-reveal-a-statewide-gender-questions-about-unwanted-students-attending/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emails</a> obtained by Parents Defending Education and shared with The Daily Wire. 
As the Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/school-investigates-students-who-declined-to-share-bathroom-with-opposite-gender-for-harassment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously reported</a>, students who were uncomfortable sharing bathrooms with students of the opposite sex were investigated by Waterloo High School after choosing to use a private bathroom that was made available by the school. 
“Usually, our meetings are open. Unfortunately, some of the main players who are in favor of keeping transgender students out of the bathrooms are students who have been coming to meetings under the guise of support for our queer kids,” the Waterloo “Diversity” club advisor wrote in an <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GSA-Advisors-Meeting-Advice-March-21-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">email</a> from March 2023 to a group of GSA Illinois advisors.
“I&#8217;m meeting with our administration today, but I was hoping for some advice about how to handle the meeting tomorrow. Do any of you have experience with monitoring who can and who cannot attend meetings?” the sponsor added. 
In a response to the email, a faculty member of the Champaign School District recommended setting guidelines that would allow the club to remove students or close meetings.
“IF you want to keep the meeting closed, you should make that clear. I would say, don&#8217;t be sneaky. Just say to non-normal attenders, ‘We are continuing a project/working on an initiative/Planning for something with our current members only today. So sorry. If you are interested in other meetings, I&#8217;d be glad to give you a calendar of open meetings!’” the Champaign School District faculty member said. “Plan for a private time to follow up with your normal membership that isn&#8217;t a normal meeting. Maybe via note, phone call, e-mail, etc. or during lunch or before school. Whether the meeting goes well or poorly, those kids will want to vent about their needs to you. They will want to talk about where their minds were and what comes next.”
According to the school’s website, <a href="https://www.wcusd5.net/o/waterloo-high-school/page/activities-clubs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the club</a> “promotes and encourages diversity and acceptance within the WHS student/faculty population. The meetings are designed to initiate, drive, and inspire social change through education and community. Diversity Club welcomes LGBTQ+ students and allies alike.”
Waterloo Community Unit School District #5 Superintendent Brian Charron told The Daily Wire that the district &#8220;only removes students from clubs when they violate school rules and expectations.&#8221; He also said that English teacher Maggie Partipilo, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-agency-played-role-in-high-school-club-raising-money-to-gender-transition-students-behind-parents-backs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously</a> was the sponsor of the school&#8217;s &#8220;Diversity&#8221; club and discussed getting girls access to chest binders without parental consent, is no longer the sponsor of the club.
Students at the school had been accused of harassment after a long line formed outside the private bathroom one day, which  Charron said was coordinated. 
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Other emails between the Waterloo GSA advisors show <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GSA-Listserve-add-Waterloo-CUSD-IL-September-28-2021.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requests</a> on how to comply with state law requiring that tampons be placed in male restrooms, how to <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Pronoun-Outing-GSA-Advisors-Waterloo-CUSD-IL-August-25-2022-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">handle</a> students&#8217; “preferred pronouns,” and <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GSA-Advisor-Google-Form-Survey-Waterloo-CCSD-IL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">surveys</a> that ask students what pronouns to use in front of their parents. 
&#8220;Political activists masquerading as school staff continue to use their official, taxpayer funded positions to push their ideology on children, train them to keep information away from their parents, and alienate students who do not buy into their agenda. It is deeply problematic that we continue to see this disturbing trend across the country. Schools must get back to their core mission of teaching children instead of using school resources to indoctrinate the next generation of American students,” Parents Defending Education Senior Advisor Michele Exner told The Daily Wire in a statement.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illinois">Illinois</a> Democrats allowed the state&#8217;s only school choice program to expire this week.
The Invest in Kids tax credit scholarship program will sunset at the end of the current school year after Illinois legislators ended the fall legislative session on Thursday without taking action to renew it.
The $75 million program <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/illinois-controversial-private-school-scholarship-program-is-ending/849c1d35-b525-4dde-adbf-9147aa38a224" target="_blank" rel="noopener">awards</a> an income tax credit to taxpayers who donate to scholarship funds that allow lower-income students to attend private schools.
About 9,700 Illinois students received scholarships last school year. The average family income for scholarship students was $45,000, <a href="https://empowerillinois.org/wp-content/uploads/EI_Y5_Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Empower Illinois, the state’s largest scholarship granting organization.
Republicans and some Chicago-area Democrats had pushed to renew a slimmed-down version of the program for five years. The new version would have cut the program to $50 million, slashed the tax credit amount, and reduced the donation cap from $1 million to $500,000 as well as focused more on low-income students.
However, the majority of Democrats in the state House never backed the proposal, and Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, a Democrat, declined to call the bill to the floor.
On Monday, a group of Illinois House Democrats <a href="https://twitter.com/janschakowsky/status/1721674773669834859" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for scrapping the program, arguing that school vouchers &#8220;perpetuate and deepen the education inequities that plague Illinois&#8221; and complaining that many of the private schools are &#8220;run by religious groups&#8221; and &#8220;openly discriminate&#8221; on the basis of things like gender identity.
Meanwhile, hundreds of parents and others with signs reading “Save My Scholarship” rallied at the House <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/illinois-controversial-private-school-scholarship-program-is-ending/849c1d35-b525-4dde-adbf-9147aa38a224" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during</a> all six days of the fall legislative session.
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The Republican House minority leader, Tony McCombie, promised to fight to reauthorize the school choice program next year.
“I think there is some things that we can do to make it a better program, a more effective program, that could serve more students as well,” McCombie said.
Teachers unions were the main opponent of the Invest in Kids program.
The president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers celebrated in a statement on Thursday, saying there is a &#8220;nationwide push to divert public dollars from our public schools.&#8221;
“Illinois lawmakers chose to put our public schools first and end the state program that subsidized private, mostly religious schools, many of which have discriminatory policies,” union President Dan Montgomery said.
Over the last few years, the school choice issue has taken center stage in several states.
Florida expanded its school choice program and has <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/florida-expanded-school-choice-defies-doomsday-predictions-as-tens-of-thousands-of-students-enroll/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">over 90,000</a> more students enrolled in private schools and other alternative education programs than last year.
In Arizona, more than <a href="https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/2-arizona-school-choice-leaders-resign-as-controversy-over-the-program-continues" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60,000</a> students have used the state&#8217;s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, a number that skyrocketed over the last year.

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The federal government is funding gender activist nonprofits that push local school districts to the left on the issue — including in one case where members of an Illinois high school’s “Diversity Club” raised money to buy “chest binders” to help peers gender transition against their parent’s wishes, records show.
Waterloo High School teacher Maggie Partipilo, who served as an advisor to the club, emailed a journalist with a list of requests it was hoping to get publicity for. “Here are the texts from the kids: (some of them are great ideas),” she wrote on November 8, 2021.
The first request was to &#8220;maybe try to raise money for kids who want binders but cant [sic] ask their parents like, if their [sic] mot [sic] out or their parent [sic] are homophobic/ transphobic,&#8221; according to <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/gender-sexualities-alliance-gsa-advisor-emails-reveal-that-student-club-members-allegedly-pooled-together-money-to-purchase-chest-binders-for-trans-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emails</a> obtained by the school watchdog group Parents Defending Education under public records laws, and shared with The Daily Wire.
It wasn’t just an idle suggestion. Later that school year, in March 2022, Partipilo attended a “quarterly HS GSA Adviser Meetup” where she shared that “a few of her trans students aren’t able to get binders at home due to their parents and at a recent Diversity Club meeting a few other students pooled together money to buy binders for those trans students and now [she] isn&#8217;t quite sure what to do.”
Another attendee at the meetup worked as a “Youth Leadership and Organizing VISTA” at a group called the Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago (PHIMC), and introduced Partipilo to the group for “helpful advice on this.” A “Policy and Advocacy VISTA” from PHIMC responded that the group was eager to help free of charge, though the records do not reflect any reply from Partipilo.
VISTA, better known as AmeriCorps, was created to allow the government to pay for young people to work for humanitarian nonprofits, but quickly morphed into a way for the federal government to subsidize political &#8220;community organizing&#8221; nonprofits agitating in different regions of the country.
In decades past, AmeriCorps/VISTA was tied to groups like the now-defunct and disgraced ACORN. But increasingly, adults paid by the federal program use nonprofits to enmesh themselves with schoolchildren, where they seek to radicalize them. Groups like PHIMC run cover for left-wing teachers by teaching them how to exploit loopholes, planning activism, and threatening school districts with legal action.
Because it is inappropriate for federal taxpayer dollars to be used to push partisan policies on local governments, President Donald Trump proposed eliminating AmeriCorpsVISTA, but his efforts were unsuccessful.
PHIMC says that it “manages a network of AmeriCorps Members.” It is currently seeking to hire more federally-funded employees as part of “AmeriCorps VISTA: Support LGBTQ+ Youth in Illinois,” according to its <a href="https://phimc.org/opportunities/opportunities-americorps/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>.
“PHIMC’s Illinois Safe Schools Alliance program seeks a cohort of four VISTAs to support activities such as the Safe Schools Consortia Project, Action Camp, Midwest LGBTQ+ Network, youth leadership development, community outreach, and additional capacity-building activities across the state. The Alliance program promotes safety, support, and healthy development for LGBTQ+ youth in Illinois schools and communities, through advocacy, education, youth organizing, and research,” it says.
The email chain involving Waterloo said PHIMC stood ready to provide “support” on “Enforcement of Public Act 102-0340 (mandate to provide menstrual hygiene products in all bathrooms free of charge) 2. Binders for members of the Diversity Club 3. Concerns about Yik Yak.”
Erika Sanzi, Director of Outreach for Parents Defending Education, said &#8220;It is so beyond the pale for a school staff member to think it&#8217;s appropriate for a school sponsored club to purchase chest binders for students behind the backs of parents — it is a physical intervention that comes with well documented health risks to girls. There is simply no justification for such a violation of trust.&#8221;
In May 2023, Partipilo told her school district superiors that she did not believe that parents had a right to be aware that the school was helping their children transition genders, lobbying them to change a draft policy that would allow transgender students to use the opposite-sex bathrooms, but only with permission from their parents, according to another tranche of emails.
“I think it’s a great idea to have students work with a school social worker/counselor to develop a Gender Identity Plan,” but “as it is written, it creates more problems than it solves by requiring parent involvement,” she wrote.
“I wholeheartedly disagree that the ‘parental involvement’ in a student’s education, as referenced in [a parents’ rights policy], has anything to do with gender identity and bathroom facilities,” she wrote.
The week that bathroom policy passed, the superintendent said that normal students could use the nurse’s bathroom if they were uncomfortable using a bathroom alongside transgender students. When a large number of students opted to do so, he then said that “It was an effort to support those students’ comfort, but unfortunately, it resulted in a disruption,” and that the students who used the nurse’s bathroom could be<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/school-investigates-students-who-declined-to-share-bathroom-with-opposite-gender-for-harassment" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> disciplined for “harassment”</a> for making transgenders feel bad.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago</a> thug who in 2017 tortured a disabled teen while his friend gleefully streamed it live on social media — explicitly saying it was because they hated whites and Donald Trump — was released from prison this week, having served less than seven years of his eight-year hate-crime sentence.
Jordan Hill left the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections on Tuesday, according to records obtained by The Daily Wire. In January 2017, Hill, Tesfaye Cooper, and Brittany and Tanishia Covington kidnapped a mentally disabled 18-year-old and laughed as they <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/depraved-woman-who-filmed-brutal-torture-mentally-joseph-curl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tortured</a> him, including making him drink out of a toilet.
Hill used a stolen van to kidnap the victim and held him in captivity there for three days before driving him to the Covingtons&#8217; apartment, where they tied him up.
They beat him and cut out part of his scalp with a knife, screaming &#8220;f*** white people&#8221; and forcing their victim to say &#8220;F*** Trump&#8221; and “I love black people.” Then they demanded a ransom from their victim&#8217;s mother. On January 3, police found the victim wandering outside &#8220;bloodied&#8221; and &#8220;battered.&#8221;
Then-President Barack Obama commented on the Black Lives Matter-era anti-white torture, saying, &#8220;What we have seen as surfacing, I think, are a lot of problems that have been there a long time &#8230; Whether it&#8217;s tensions between police and communities, (or) hate crimes of the despicable sort that has just now recently surfaced on Facebook.&#8221;
&#8220;They do demonstrate a level of <a href="http://nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/chicago-torture-video-hate-crime-kidnapping-charges-for-4-suspects-848612419912" target="_blank" rel="noopener">depravity</a> that is an outrage to a lot of Americans,&#8221; then-White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
Hill was 18 and knew the victim, who was the same age, from school. Cooper and Brittany Covington were also 18 while her sister Tanishia was 24.
Even though all four suspects had <a href="https://digitaledition.baltimoresun.com/tribune/article_popover.aspx?guid=2693e942-a1fc-459c-b174-6039317e000b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previous run-ins</a> with the law, Cook County Circuit Judge William Hooks let the younger Covington off without any jail time, dropping charges of kidnapping in exchange for her pleading guilty to a hate crime, intimidation, and battery and accepting four years&#8217; probation.
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The elder Covington was sentenced to three years in prison. Hooks ordered her to directly apologize to her mentally disabled victim, and he whispered &#8220;it&#8217;s alright.&#8221;
Cooper faced more than 50 felony counts, but pleaded guilty to just two, hate crime and kidnapping, and was sentenced to seven years in prison in July 2018. He was <a href="https://vinelink.vineapps.com/person-detail/offender/16646030;tabIndexToSelect=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> in November 2022.
Hill was also initially charged with more than 50 crimes and faced up to 30 years in prison, but accepted a plea deal in which he pleaded guilty to only two crimes.
At sentencing, Judge Hooks &#8220;directed Hill to look at paintings and photographs of civil rights leaders hanging on the walls of his courtrooms, and shook his head as Hill was unable to identify portraits of Thurgood Marshall, Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells, among others,&#8221; as the <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/7/5/18374780/jordan-hill-sentenced-to-8-years-in-facebook-hate-crime-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago Sun-Times</a> reported at the time.
“Every time you take an act like this&#8230; terrible act on this young man who could not defend himself, you spit on the graves of all of the people on these walls,” he said.
Hill was sentenced to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/facebook-live-torture-guilty-plea-mentally-disabled-teen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eight years in prison</a> in July 2018. But he was <a href="https://vinelink.vineapps.com/person-detail/offender/16645672;tabIndexToSelect=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> on parole on Tuesday after less than seven years, beginning from his initial arrest, records show.
The incident, recorded by one of the culprits and streamed to Facebook Live as they reveled in their cruelty, was one of the most clear-cut and vicious examples of a racially motivated hate crime in a country that has devoted significant energy calling for severe punishment for those who committed less severe, real or imagined hate crimes, such as the one alleged by Jussie Smollett.
Yet Hill’s ultimate punishment is far more lenient than those in other cases. Federal prosecutors have sought long sentences for those accused of trespassing in the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Jacob Chansley, the &#8220;Qanon Shaman,&#8221; received almost 4 years in prison after police <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-releases-january-6-footage-that-raises-new-questions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">escorted</a> him on a tour of the Capitol. This week, prosecutors sought eight years in prison for a mother of eight with an otherwise clean record who smashed a window, and she was <a href="https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1714423251030458882" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> to nearly five years. Also this week, Douglas Mackay was sentenced to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-supporter-douglass-mackey-sentenced-to-7-months-in-prison-over-voting-memes">seven months</a> in prison for posting a meme about Hillary Clinton.

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Ringleader Of Chicago’s Anti-White, Post-2016 Election Torture Incident Released From Prison

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A 71-year-old landlord in the Chicago area allegedly stabbed a Muslim mother and her six-year-old son on Saturday, causing serious injury to the mother and killing the boy.
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Joseph M. Czuba has been charged with first degree murder, attempted first degree murder, hate crime (2 counts), and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WillCountySheriff/posts/pfbid0KUUoQZaZb6KPoVG3EUy3sdoENpoyb7rk9FDV7GFJ9iZ3FUPDapMj3gMnhvrCMiRGl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Will County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.
Authorities say Czuba “targeted&#8221; the mother and boy &#8220;due to them being Muslim and the on-going Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis.” Czuba has yet to &#8220;make any statements to detectives regarding his involvement in this heinous attack,&#8221; authorities added.
A statement from the sheriff&#8217;s office says deputies located the two victims inside a bedroom, both with &#8220;multiple stab wounds to their chest, torso, and upper extremities.&#8221; The mother, 32, &#8220;had over a dozen stab wounds to her body&#8221; and is &#8220;recovering from her injuries at a local area hospital and is expected to survive this brutal attack.&#8221;
The boy, who succumbed to his injuries at a nearby hospital on Saturday, was stabbed 26 times, according to a forensic pathologist. The knife used in this attack was a &#8220;twelve-inch serrated military style knife that has a seven-inch blade,&#8221; police said.
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President Joe Biden on Sunday issued a statement on the attack, condemning Islamophobia.
&#8220;Jill and I were shocked and sickened to learn of the brutal murder of a six-year-old child and the attempted murder of the child’s mother in their home yesterday in Illinois,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;The child’s Palestinian Muslim family came to America seeking what we all seek—a refuge to live, learn, and pray in peace.&#8221;
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&#8220;This horrific act of hate has no place in America, and stands against our fundamental values: freedom from fear for how we pray, what we believe, and who we are,&#8221; the Bidens said. &#8220;As Americans, we must come together and reject Islamophobia and all forms of bigotry and hatred. I have said repeatedly that I will not be silent in the face of hate.  We must be unequivocal. There is no place in America for hate against anyone.&#8221;
&#8220;We join everyone here at the White House in sending our condolences and prayers to the family, including for the mother’s recovery, and to the broader Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim American communities,&#8221; the statement closed.

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Muslim Boy Fatally Stabbed Near Chicago; Biden Issues Statement

Muslim Boy Fatally Stabbed In Chicago By Landlord; Biden Issues Statement On Islamophobia

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After an Illinois school implemented a policy that allowed students who said they were transgender to use the bathroom of their choice, it said non-transgender students who were uncomfortable with the decision could opt to use the bathroom in the nurse&#8217;s office. What the school failed to anticipate was that so many students took it up on the offer that the line for the nurse&#8217;s bathroom began forming down the hall.
The miscalculation caused the superintendent to say the students were &#8220;harassing&#8221; the transgender students by opting for the private bathroom, according to records obtained by <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/waterloo-community-unit-school-district-5-provided-training-on-transgender-issues-that-included-gender-unicorn-superintendent-labeled-student-protests-of-transgender-policy-as-harassment-eng/">Parents Defending Education</a> and shared first with The Daily Wire.
&#8220;When biologically male high school students came forward and stated they were uncomfortable with biological female students using male restrooms, we told those students they could use the nurse’s office restroom,&#8221; Waterloo Community Unit School District #5 Superintendent Brian Charron wrote to parents on March 17. &#8220;It was an effort to support those students&#8217; comfort, but unfortunately, it resulted in a disruption.&#8221;
“The male students planned to use the nurse’s office restroom at the same time, resulting in a line,” he said, saying that students coordinated to use the bathroom at the same time to highlight how the new bathroom policy affected them.
“This line grew dramatically throughout the day with male and female students, filling the hallway and causing students to be tardy to or miss classes. These actions were not the appropriate way to send a message to the School District. We are investigating this behavior as planned harassment of transgender students,&#8221; he wrote, the records show.
Some students were already punished by being marked tardy or absent for waiting for the bathroom stall, he wrote. “Students who attempt to repeat today’s actions will be disciplined for attempting to cause a disruption in school,” the letter said.
Days before Charron’s letter, the school board had passed a <a href="https://boardpolicyonline.com/?b=waterloo_5&amp;s=1563315" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy</a> that said transgender students could use the wrong restroom as long as the student developed a &#8220;Gender Identity Plan&#8221; with school officials.
Caroline Moore, Vice President of Parents Defending Education, said that it&#8217;s not &#8220;harassment&#8221; for students to choose a private restroom.
“Students have every right to push back on school policies that do not align with their belief systems. It is not harassment,&#8221; Moore said. &#8220;What should be considered school inflicted harassment is allowing students to use locker rooms/bathrooms that do not align with their biological sex and creating situations of potential physical violence and sexual assault on school property.”
Documents produced by Waterloo in response to the public records request also included a training presentation that included a “gender unicorn.” The presentation said that the “schools’ obligations” are to “act in loco parentis,” and “not reveal students’ identities to anyone else (including the students’ families) without students’ permission.”
The training included a copy of something similar to the Gender Identity Plan, a document from the activist group Gender Spectrum called the &#8220;Gender Support Plan,&#8221; which explains that &#8220;school staff, caregivers (if appropriate) and the student should work together to develop the document&#8221; on &#8220;how the student&#8217;s authentic gender will be accounted for and supported at school.&#8221;
Gender Spectrum shuttered abruptly last month after the documents it was pushing to schools, which encouraged children to identity as “foxgender” and conspired to help school staff <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-awards-grant-to-nonprofit-encouraging-kids-to-identify-as-foxgender-teaching-schools-to-hide-it">conceal students&#8217; gender</a> transition from parents, gained attention. The group had a lucrative contract with California schools, but yanked its materials off the internet once parents became aware of its agenda, replacing its website with a message that said that, &#8220;Gender Spectrum is <a href="https://www.genderspectrum.org/">ceasing all direct service</a> programming as of Wednesday, September 27, 2023.&#8221;
Superintendent Charron did not answer a question asking how many students had been disciplined for using the nurse&#8217;s bathroom, but told The Daily Wire that its &#8220;gender support plan was not devised by Gender Spectrum and the District has no relationship with Gender Spectrum.&#8221;
The documents obtained by PDE also showed that the district’s own staff was trying to undermine the part of the policy that required parental sign-off. An English teacher who is sponsor of Waterloo High School’s “Diversity Club” claimed that parental rights were limited to the classroom, not the bathroom — and that school counselors, not parents, should be involved in gender-transitioning minors.
&#8220;I think it’s a great idea to have students work with a school social worker/counselor to develop a Gender Identity Plan,&#8221; but &#8220;as it is written, it creates more problems than it solves by requiring parent involvement,&#8221; she wrote March 3, seeking to get the then-draft policy modified.
&#8220;I wholeheartedly disagree that the ‘parental involvement’ in a student’s education, as referenced in [a parents’ rights policy], has anything to do with gender identity and bathroom facilities.&#8221;
The Diversity Club sponsor is <a href="https://mrspartipilo.weebly.com/">Maggie Partipilo</a>, whose classroom website is inundated with gay paraphernalia.
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Waterloo school district said, in a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ASgJLcLHOKiXAl4ZzsqKm_beKz3dUNjJ/edit">document</a> shared with parents, that lawyers told it that it had no choice but to allow transgender bathroom use because of the Illinois Human Rights Act. That act “seemingly has an exemption for restroom and locker room facilities,” with the law saying that “restrooms, shower rooms… may grant exemptions based on bona fide considerations of public policy,” the document said. However, the Illinois Appellate Court overrode that by saying that sex “cannot be construed to include any requirement based on reproductive organs or anatomy,” it said.
It cited precedent saying that in 2018, the Illinois Human Rights Commission “found Komarek School District 94 liable for committing sexual orientation discrimination” for not letting a nine-year old who said she was transgender use the boys communal restrooms instead of a private one, dismissing concerns about the “comfort level” of other nine-year olds.
In 2019, it “similarly determined that Lake Park CHSD 108 violated the rights of a transgender high school student” by requiring him to change behind a privacy curtain in the locker room.

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School Investigates Students Who Chose To Use Private Bathroom For Implicit ‘Harassment’ Of Transgenders

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has become the latest Democrat luminary to complain about the influx of illegal immigrants into his state. But unlike some of his cohorts, he refused to contend that efforts should be made to curb illegal immigration at the border.
In a <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24003426/bidenletter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to President Joe Biden, Pritzker began by noting it had been “13 months since the first bus of asylum seekers arrived in Illinois from the border,” adding that over 15,000 people had arrived in his state. “Governors and mayors from border states have shipped people to our state like cargo in a dehumanizing attempt to score political points,” he complained.
“The people of Illinois are kind and generous,” he first proclaimed. “We believe in the fundamental right of every human, especially those facing persecution, to find refuge and live with dignity in this great country of ours.”
Then came the complaint: “But as the numbers being transported to Chicago are accelerating, the humanitarian crisis is overwhelming our ability to provide aid to the refugee population. Unfortunately, the welcome and aid Illinois has been providing to these asylum seekers has not been matched with support by the federal government. Most critically, the federal government&#8217;s lack of intervention and coordination at the border has created an untenable situation for Illinois.”
“Though we have found temporary housing in existing buildings for a majority of the refugees, we are challenged to find additional housing for the continuous flow of people who keep coming and are now forced to sleep in police stations and on sidewalks. This situation is untenable and requires your immediate help beyond the coming work authorizations for some of the asylum seekers,” he continued.
“As just one state in our union, we cannot lead coordination efforts at the border,” he protested.  “It cannot be that just a few cities and states should now bear the cost of this effort alone.”
“I urge you, Secretary Mayorkas, and the rest of your administration to take swift action and intervene on our behalf and on behalf of the other affected states and their residents, as well as on behalf of the tens of thousands of asylum seekers who undertook a dangerous and difficult journey in hopes of attaining public safety and forging a better life for themselves and their families,” he concluded.
New York Democrat governor Kathy Hochul has complained about the influx of illegal immigrants, but she has also urged stronger efforts to contain immigration. <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/01/gov-hochul-concedes-border-is-too-open-and-that-a-limit-needed-on-who-can-cross/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Speaking</a> on “Face The Nation,” she said of the border, “It is too open right now. &#8230; We want to have a limit on who can come across the border. &#8230; People coming from all over the world are finding their way through, simply saying they need asylum, and the majority of them seem to be ending up in the streets of New York, and that is a real problem for New York City. It’s in our DNA to welcome immigrants. But there has to be some limits in place.”

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Illinois Dem Gov Complains About Illegals Flooding His State. He Doesn’t Mention Stopping It.

Illegal Immigration

J.B. Pritzker

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago">Chicago</a> is now sheltering hundreds of illegal migrants at O’Hare International Airport as the city waits for new shelters to be built.
The hundreds of recent arrivals, including babies and the elderly, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/migrants-immigration-airports-asylum-chicago-1399cc2447f89fdd3ed7b650ca84bbf5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">live</a> in a shuttle bus center at the airport&#8217;s Terminal 1, where they sleep on cardboard and use airport bathrooms, the Associated Press reported.
Up to 500 migrants have lived at O&#8217;Hare at the same time in the crowded area where privacy is a curtain closed with staples, although the migrants have spread out beyond the curtain, some sleeping along windows as travelers walk by.
Medical care is limited, and germs reportedly spread quickly in the living area.
A private firm watches the migrants and their activities.
The haphazard shelter situation has raised concerns about public health as well as safety.
“It was supposed to be a stop-and-go place,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/migrants-immigration-airports-asylum-chicago-1399cc2447f89fdd3ed7b650ca84bbf5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Vianney Marzullo, one of the few volunteers at O’Hare. “It’s very concerning. It is not just a safety matter, but a public health matter.”
Some migrants are also living at Chicago&#8217;s other airport, Midway International Airport, about 20 miles south of O&#8217;Hare. Others are sleeping on the floors of police stations.
Chicago has been scrambling to respond to a migrant crisis before the cold winter months arrive. The country’s third-largest city has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/politics/gop-migrants-blue-cities.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">experienced</a> an influx of about 14,000 migrants recently, many from Venezuela, and has already spent at least $250 million on the issue.
Last month, the city of Chicago <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-signs-nearly-30-million-contract-to-build-giant-winterized-tent-camps-for-migrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a $29.4 million contract with a private security firm to build massive winterized camps for newly arrived illegal migrants. The firm <a href="https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/migrant-tent-cities-come-with-child-care-and-questions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will be</a> responsible for building, staffing, and operating the huge tents, which must be able to house between 250 and 1,400 migrants.
Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson faced pushback last month when he asked all 50 city council members to find two acres in their wards for a large tent that could house 200 migrants.
“I’ve looked in my ward. I just don’t have any available space. I have one of the most dense wards in the city,” Alderman Brian Hopkins, whose ward includes parts of downtown, <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/amp/migrants-chicago-news-brandon-johnson-tent-cities/13769003/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last month.
In the meantime, Chicago leaders have been begging the federal government for help with the migrant crisis.
“Let me state this clearly: the city of Chicago cannot go on welcoming new arrivals safely and capably without significant support and immigration policy changes,” Johnson <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/mayor-brandon-johnson-warns-city-214500144.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in late August.
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The federal government has already given Chicago and Illinois <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/5/5/23713285/chicago-state-of-illinois-get-8-5-million-in-federal-migrant-grants-asked-for-up-to-191-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least </a>$8.5 million for the migrant crisis.
Other major cities are battling a migrant problem as well.
New York City is struggling to process about 113,000 migrants who have streamed into the city since last summer. New York also set up tent shelters for migrants last year but ran into issues, <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/heres-what-we-know-about-mayor-brandon-johnsons-plan-to-set-up-migrant-base-camps/de02d287-dbf9-471d-8f2b-fef98f758d24" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> flooding in one of those shelters.
Other cities like Boston and Atlantic City, New Jersey, have rejected the idea of sheltering migrants in airports.
“It is such a preposterous solution to the problems we have,” said Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson recently about the idea. “Who is going to secure these people? Who is going to feed them? Who is going to educate them? We really don’t have any infrastructure to take care of them.”

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At least five people are dead after multiple vehicles, including a truck carrying anhydrous ammonia, crashed on Highway 40 near Teutopolis, Illinois, Friday night. 
The crash caused a “chemical plume” and forced people living within a one-mile radius of the crash to evacuate, WCIA <a href="https://www.wcia.com/news/ammonia-leak-forces-evacuation-closes-route-40-in-effingham-county/">reported</a>. Anhydrous ammonia, which is used widely for agricultural purposes, is a toxic chemical that can cause lung irritation, severe respiratory issues, and can burn skin and eyes. 
The accident resulted in “a large plume, cloud of anhydrous ammonia on the roadway that caused terribly dangerous air conditions in the northeast area of Teutopolis,” Effingham County Sheriff Paul Kuhns <a href="https://apnews.com/article/teutopolis-effingham-illinois-truck-accident-chemical-spill-4e86653cb60515022dea05c45046329d">said</a>. “Because of these conditions, the emergency responders had to wait. They had to mitigate the conditions before they could really get to work on it, and it was a fairly large area.”
&#8220;It&#8217;s bad stuff if you breathe it especially because it gets in your airways, in your lungs and it burns,&#8221; Kuhns added. 
The tanker carrying the anhydrous ammonia rolled into a ditch after crashing and began leaking the toxic chemical, according to Tim McMahon, chief of the Teutopolis Fire Protection District, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/teutopolis-effingham-illinois-truck-accident-chemical-spill-4e86653cb60515022dea05c45046329d">reported</a>. 
Hours before the crash, traffic was rerouted to Highway 40 because of another crash on I-70 eastbound. Authorities are investigating what caused the crash that killed five and resulted in the release of the toxic chemical.  
As of Saturday morning, the highway remained closed as crews worked to contain the chemical leak. It remained unclear how many people were evacuated in the village of Teutopolis which is home to around 1,500 people, and evacuation order remained in place Saturday as a shelter was set up for those who had to leave their homes, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/30/us/illinois-anhydrous-ammonia-leak/index.html">reported</a>. Kuhns said they did not have a time period for when residents could return home. 
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&#8220;I understand how frustrating that would be to not be allowed to travel or to go back home but we really need to focus our resources on this spill,&#8221; he said.

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Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich — who went to prison on corruption charges after he was charged with attempting to “sell” former President Barack Obama’s Senate seat — had something to say about Governor Gavin Newsom.
Blagojevich took to X to weigh in on the predicament in which Newsom currently finds himself — needing to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated on Friday when the news broke that Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sen-dianne-feinstein-dies-at-90" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dianne Feinstein</a> (D-CA) had died at the age of 90.
“Blago” shared a photo of himself with Obama, asking in the caption, “Will DOJ criminalize the back room wheeling and dealing that’s begun to fill Feinstein’s vacant seat?”
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Will DOJ criminalize the back room wheeling &amp; dealing that’s begun to fill Feinstein’s vacant seat? I got 14 years for merely talking after Obama sent an emissary to discuss possible political deals. He did 8 years in the White House while I did 8 years in the Big House.… <a href="https://t.co/WUcSCNqqzB">pic.twitter.com/WUcSCNqqzB</a>
&mdash; Rod Blagojevich (@realBlagojevich) <a href="https://twitter.com/realBlagojevich/status/1707807450026459625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“I got 14 years for merely talking after Obama sent an emissary to discuss possible political deals,” Blagojevich continued. “He did 8 years in the White House while I did 8 years in the Big House. Hopefully Newsom goes to NEITHER.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-a-trumpocrat-rod-blagojevich-thanks-president-in-first-interview-after-release" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blagojevich</a> was a Democrat when he was elected to serve as Illinois governor, but declared himself a “Trumpocrat” after former President Donald Trump stepped in and had his sentence commuted.
“President Trump is the one who did this and I’m profoundly grateful,” Blagojevich said at the time. “He’s got, obviously, a big fan in me, and if you’re asking me what my party affiliation is, I’m a Trumpocrat.”
Since then, the former governor has spoken out on a number of issues — including the prosecution of former Trump National Security Advisor Mike Flynn — saying that the FBI had used the playbook on him first.
“What they succeeded in doing at the Triple-A level to a Democratic governor, they tried to do at the Major League level to a Republican President,” <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/08/exclusive-rod-blagojevich-fbi-did-michael-flynn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blagojevich</a> told The Daily Caller in 2020.
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He went on to say that the ultimate goal in both cases was to undo the results of a free and fair election, thus undermining the will of the people.
“This cannot be a Democratic or Republican issue. It is far too important,” he declared. “What these corrupt prosecutors and FBI agents are doing threatens the fundamental rights of the American people to choose their own leaders through free elections.”

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