{"id":355462,"date":"2025-02-11T10:30:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T09:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=355462"},"modified":"2025-02-11T10:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T09:30:22","slug":"trump-pardons-former-governor-jailed-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2025\/02\/11\/trump-pardons-former-governor-jailed-for-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pardons former governor jailed for corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong><strong>Democrat Blagojevich was removed from his governor\u2019s post in 2009 and later convicted of essentially selling the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama when he won the US presidency in 2008<\/strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned Rod Blagojevich, a former Illinois governor whose jail sentence for corruption he commuted five years ago during his first term.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Blagojevich was removed from his governor\u2019s post in 2009 and later convicted of essentially selling the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama when he won the US presidency in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was sort of a terrible injustice. 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