President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose 14-year sentence for political corruption charges he commuted during his first term.
The Republican president signed the pardon on Monday, calling the Democratic former governor "a very fine person."Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 on charges that included seeking to sell an appointment to then-President Barack Obama's old Senate seat and trying to shake down a children's hospital. Blagojevich, who appeared on Trump's reality TV show "Celebrity Apprentice," served eight years in prison before Trump cut short his term in 2020.
Trump expressed some sympathy for Blagojevich when he appeared on "Celebrity Apprentice" in 2010 before his first corruption trial started. When Trump fired Blagojevich as a contestant, he praised him for how he was fighting his criminal case, telling him, "You have a hell of a lot of guts."Despite that, Trump on Monday made the puzzling claim that he "didn't know him," but then said he believed Blagojevich appeared on his reality show "for a little while.
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