President Donald Trump pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Feb. 10.
Blagojevich, a Democrat, served eight years of a 14-year prison sentence before Trump commuted his sentence in 2020.
“It’s my honor to do it. I’ve watched him, he was set up by a lot of bad people,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Trump said at the time that Blagojevich had served enough of a sentence, which was the result of a conviction for trying to sell the Senate seat of former President Barack Obama when the latter was elected president in 2008.
Blagojevich, a former U.S. House member, was also convicted of attempting to get kickbacks from a children’s hospital and the Illinois horse racing industry, in addition to lying to the FBI….