Why Trump's campaign is tapping Democrats charged with corruption for help

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Democrats with criminal pasts have begun to feature prominently in Donald Trump’s campaign for president. And I can think of several reasons why. Last weekend, it was former Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who appeared at a Republican National Committee event hosted at Mar-a-Lago. The New York Times reported that Trump spent an extended period of time discussing the former fraudster, who was convicted of corruption but was released after Trump commuted his sentence in 2020.

This past weekend, Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, in defense of another Democrat. This time, it was Democratic Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar, who was recently indicted on federal corruption charges. Cuellar has denied the allegations against him, and Trump has begun pushing the conspiracy theory that Cuellar’s indictment stems from the conservative Democrat’s opposition to some of the Biden administration’s immigration policies.

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