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Dahleen Glanton: Patti Blagojevich's spin on her husband's conviction sounds like a broken record. But Donald Trump doesn't mind

Let's say your husband used to be the governor of Illinois. But now he is serving 14 years in federal prison on what you are convinced were trumped-up corruption charges.

Say it's less than two weeks before Christmas, too, and the thought of spending another holiday without your partner in both love and power-grabbing is unbearable. Maybe you feel a little guilty that he's going to be locked up for the seventh Christmas in a row because it was you, after all,

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