h/t Dagny Looks like the truth about Obama’s attempt to leverage Valerie Jarrett into his senate seat is coming out in trial.  BLAGO TRIAL: Fed informant passed delicate message to Blagojevich from Obama – John Harris testifies that on Nov. 10, 2008, lobbyist John Wyma called him with a message from President-Elect Obama’s camp.   Harris, of course, doesn’t know that Wyma at this point had been secretly working with the feds for at least a month in the Blagojevich probe. Wyma, former congressional chief of staff to Blagojevich, was also close to Rahm Emanuel.
“(Wyma) told me he had a message to deliver to me from Rahm Emanuel, who was trying to get a hold of the governor. And John Wyma was trying to get a hold of the governor, but they could not get through. I understood they knew each other well, Wyma was chief of staff,” to Blagojevich Harris testified. It does not appear that the Wyma/Harris phone call happened on a wired line.
The message Wyma passed along?   “That the President-elect would be thankful and appreciative if the governor would appoint Valerie Jarrett to the Senate seat,”  Harris said. “I said I understood and I would deliver the message.”
On Nov. 11, Harris relays the message to his boss. This time the call is recorded.

“We know he wants her, they’re not willing to give me anything, just appreciation, f— them,” Blagojevich says on tape.

The next day, Valerie Jarrett pulled out of contention for the Senate seat post