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It's my pleasure, ... I think he's a very fine person this should they've happened to him."
Trump said during remarks in the Oval Office, adding It's important that we take a strong stand against pay-to-play politics, especially in Illinois where four of our last eight Governors have gone to federal prison for public corruption,
I’ve watched him. He was set up by a lot of bad people, some of the same people I had to deal with,
Trump said of Blagojevich at the White House as he signed the pardon It was a prosecution by the same people — Comey, Fitzpatrick, the same group,
Trump told reporters on Monday, referring to Patrick Fitzgerald, the former U.S. attorney who prosecuted Blagojevich and later represented former FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired from the agency in May 2017. I've got this thing, and it's [expletive] golden. I'm just not giving it up for nothing,
Blagojevich was recorded saying in 2008. He has been in jail for seven years over a phone call where nothing happened. He shouldn't have said what he said, but it was braggadocio, you would say."
President Donald Trump, before commuting Blagojevich's sentence He seems like a very nice person, don’t know him,
Trump told reporters at the time When you’ve lived through it yourself, you recognize when they do it to someone else,
I love Trump more today than ever!”
he wrote on social media at the time
