Traficant on Fox

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Vindicator review of Greta Van Susteren interview with Traficant

http://www.vindy.com/news/2009/sep/11/traficant-no-one-will-silence-me/


Traficant will also be back in the radio talk show host chair from 10 a.m. to noon Monday on WKBN, 570 AM.

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For those who missed it, here is the transcript of the Traficant interview on Fox.

FOX ON THE RECORD WITH GRETA VAN SUSTEREN

TRANSCRIPT

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During the interview he hinted at a possable run for Congress.

            VAN SUSTEREN: I'm going to ask it right now.
            TRAFICANT: Get at me. Get at me, Greta.
            VAN SUSTEREN: All right. Are you going to run for Congress again?
            TRAFICANT: I don't know yet. There's a lot of people that want me to
            run for Congress. You know, I was the number one target of the
            American- Israeli Public Affairs Committee and the number one target
            of the Justice Department since 1983, being the only American to
            ever defeat them pro se in a RICO trial. And I have big enemies.
            But I have some grudges, and I want to go at them. I want to go at
            them big time, Greta. So I have to see, first of all, if I'm viable,
            and second of all, if the people would support me. They came in here
            and they fractured this district. They broke it up certainly to make
            it tougher. I think they also felt they gave me a life sentence,
            that I'd never survive in prison. Then they came to me and said if I
            said I was guilty, I might even get a pardon, and I told them to
            shove the pardon up their derriere sideways.
            So here I am, and if I do run, get your best hold, because I will be
            running downhill with my tails flapping in the wind, wide open.

            VAN SUSTEREN: What are the odds you are going to win -- I mean, not
            are you going to win. What are the odds that you're going to run?
            TRAFICANT: The odds, and I saved all comments for your show,
            because, number one, I think you have a great show, and this is not
            to patronize you. I know you got some questions, and I am going to
            embarrass you before it is over.
            But I would say at this point is 50-50, and I have a lot of people
            that are encouraging me to run because there are so many
            disenfranchised people, so many, especially in this area.
            Concerns I have that I come home to is we have Delphi here, the
            salaried that were completely cut out of also pension benefits. It's
            going to be almost a $250,000 impact to this general community.
            And when you look at it nationally, Dayton, Ohio, is going to be hit
            real hard. The state of Ohio is going to be hit with about $1.5
            billion in lost money, and economic generation, because of this
            decision.
            And I feel, and you know my record, if we can take care of people
            over the world, dammit, take care of those Delphi salaried workers.
            And I expect it to be done.