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President Donald Trump is expected to pardon former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Axios first reported the news.
Blagojevich served eight years in prison on charges stemming from his effort to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat after Obama won the 2008 presidential election, until Trump commuted his 14-year sentence in 2020.
The former governor also appeared on the Trump-hosted “Celebrity Apprentice” after being impeached and removed from office.
The former governor defended Trump after Trump was indicted in the New York hush money case and likened Trump’s legal problems to his own.
“I love Trump more today than ever!” Blagojevich said on social media at the time. “When you’ve lived through it yourself you recognize when they do it to someone else.”
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