Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 on charges that included seeking to sell an appointment to then-President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat and trying to shake down a children’s hospital. Blagojevich ...

Trump commuted Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence in 2020. The former governor had served about 8 years on charges stemming from ...

Former President Trump has granted a complete pardon to Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor convicted for ...

US President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois.

The Republican president signed the pardon on Monday and called the Democratic former governor “a very fine person” who “was ...

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat and former contestant on ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been issued a pardon by President Donald Trump, nearly five years after his sentence ...

Rod Blagojevich, the ex-Illinois governor convicted of trying to peddle Barack Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat, speaks ...

In 1992, Obama married Michelle Robinson and entered politics as a member of the Illinois Senate, setting the stage for his ultimate election to the United States Senate in 2004. In 2004 ...

A now-viral video has sparked widespread curiosity about what former US presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush were discussing during President Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony on ...

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