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.
Someone reported that he asked Obama what he’d give to name somebody, and Obama said Blago would “have his appreciation”.
Blago said “Fuck that I want money”. Reporter pointed out that he probably undervalued a president’s appreciation (plus he wouldn’t have gone to jail).