President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who was convicted and sentenced to prison on corruption charges surrounding his time in office.

“It was a sort of a terrible injustice,” Trump said. “They just were after him. They go after a lot of people. These are bad people, the other side.”

Of note, those corruption charges stemmed from Blagojevich very openly trying to sell Obama’s vacant US Senate seat in Illinois after the 2008 election.

  • Bob Robertson IX English
    15•1 day ago

    Just want to point out that Blagojevich is\was a democrat, and was taken down by a democrat administration.

    • @[email protected]
      16•1 day ago

      Kind of makes it worse almost. Trump isn’t acting out of partisanship, but a desire to protect corrupt people like himself.

      • @thallamabond
        12•1 day ago

        Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois, has also endorsed Trump. Blagojevich tried to sell Barack Obama’s senate seat in 2008 after he was elected president, and he was incarcerated for eight years afterward. His sentence was commuted by Donald Trump during his time in office.

        From Aug 2024

        https://www.distractify.com/p/democrats-endorsing-trump-list