President Donald Trump pardoned former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat convicted of corruption for attempting to sell Barack Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat. Blagojevich was removed from office in 2009 and had his 14-year sentence commuted in 2020 by Trump. Blagojevich had portrayed himself as a victim of an overzealous prosecution.
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