BREAKING: Trump commutes sentence of Rob Blagojevich, former Illinois governor who tried to sell Senate seat
President Donald Trump on Tuesday commuted the sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of federal corruption charges, including an attempt to sell the U.S. Senate seat previously held by then-President Barack Obama.Trump on Tuesday also pardoned former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who pleaded guilty in 2009 to felony tax fraud and lying to the government.
“How funny would it be sending Rev. Wright there?” Blagojevich said in the call. “I bet you he’d take it. Wouldn’t that be fucking funny?” In 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court denied for a second time a request from the disgraced ex-governor to appeal the corruption charge convictions. Story continues“Eighteen years is, I think, really unfair,” Trump said of Blagojevich’s sentence . Trump added that Blagojevich was convicted “for being stupid and saying things that every politician, you know that many other politicians say.”
Trump has shown an affinity for his pardon powers in the past, commuting the sentence of Alice Johnson, who was serving a lifetime sentence for a nonviolent drug offense, after reality star Kim Kardashian West requested he do so in 2018.
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