Trump expected to pardon former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich

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Following the former US president's 2008 election win, Barack Obama, Blagojevich was appointed to the US Senate. In 2020, Trump sacked Blagojevich's 14-year sentence.

Australian TV show in 2010, before the corruption trial against him started, Trump fired him from the show, using the chance to give Blagojevich a glowing endorsement.

corruption case, drawing parallels between his own legal woes and Trump's.

“He said he loved Trump more than ever just then”

You can spot it immediately when someone's going through it because you've experienced it yourself, he added.

Trump was set to sign a pardon on Monday arvo, according to a bloke who's in the know, speaking to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.

In addition to being found guilty of trying to sell Obama's Senate seat, Blagojevich was also charged with attempting to obtain money from a children's hospital in Chicago for election campaign donations. Blagojevich was convicted of 18 counts in 2011 - and sentenced to 14 years in prison - but Chicago's seventh US Circuit Court of Appeals overturned five of the convictions, including those relating to him promising to appoint someone to the Senate position.

I'm not askin' Donald Trump for anythin'. I'm dead chuffed he got my 14-year prison sentence cut loose and gave my daughter's dads back," Blagojevich wrote not too long ago on X. "What I'm after is justice and for the truth about the corrupt prosecution against me to come to light. If we're goin' to save our democracy, lawfare and the use of prosecutors as weapons for personal gain must stop and those who do it must be held accountable.

The anticipated pardon has come weeks after Trump granted clemency on his first day back in the White House to over 1,500 people charged with crimes related to the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Those found guilty of violent acts against police were let off, as were leaders of far-right extremist groups who were planning to keep Trump in power despite his 2020 loss to former President Joe Biden.

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