President Trump is expected to pardon disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, potentially offering him the U.S. Ambassadorship to Serbia, according to reports.
According to the New York Post, Trump commuted Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence on federal corruption charges in February 2020, though he did not grant him a full pardon at that time.
The former Illinois governor, 68, was convicted in 2011 on 18 counts, including attempting to exchange then-President Barack Obama’s Senate seat for campaign contributions and forcing a children’s hospital CEO to pay $25,000 under threat of withholding pediatric funding approvals.
Blagojevich was recorded saying about his sale of Obama’s senate seat, “I’ve got this thing and it’s f***ing golden … I’m just not giving it up for … nothing.”
Blagojevich denies the bribery to this day, writing in a Daily Wire op-ed last…
