“He served eight years in jail, a long time,” Trump told reporters after commuting Rod Blagojevich's prison sentence. “He seems like a very nice person, don’t know him.”
Now a free man. Photo: Joe Amon/Denver Post via Getty Images President Trump announced on Tuesday that he had commuted the sentence of disgraced ex-Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, who was caught on tape trying to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat and has served more than seven years of a 14-year sentence. While Blagojevich’s conviction won’t be overturned, he will be freed from prison as early as Tuesday afternoon.
Blagojevich’s commutation had appeared fairly likely since 2018, when Trump said he’d consider it amid a sustained public-relations campaign waged by the ex-governor’s wife, Patti. Trump has long been receptive to Blagojevich’s argument that he had been unfairly prosecuted, hardly a surprise for a man who seems to feel instinctive sympathy for those who are accused of abusing their power.
Blagojevich’s corruption was about as obvious as it comes. On a recording made possible by an FBI wiretap, he famously said, of Obama’s then-vacant seat: “I’ve got this thing and it’s fucking golden. And I’m just not giving it up for fucking nothing.” In 2011, just months after his Celebrity Apprentice appearance, he was convicted on 17 counts, including wire fraud, attempted extortion, and conspiracy to solicit bribes.
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