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Trump commutes the penalty to the governor who tried to sell the post of senator of Barack Obama | Univision Politics News

President Donald Trump commuted Tuesday the 14-year prison sentence weighing on former Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich, found guilty of trying to sell for personal gain the seat that Barack Obama had vacated when he announced his candidacy for the presidency .

“Yes, we commute Rod Blagojevich’s sentence,” Trump told reporters before boarding the presidential plane that will take him on a tour to the West Coast.

When the sentence is commuted, the former governor leaves prison in an expedited manner, but his record is intact. Blagojevich was behind bars for eight years, which Trump said was “a long time.”

Although the president said he did not know him, both agreed on the NBC program ‘Celebrity Aprentice’, presented by Trump for 14 seasons.

Trump also granted clemency to those also sentenced to prison Michael R. Milken, a well-known finance man, and Bernard B. Kerik, former commissioner of the New York police.

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It is the same day that the White House announced a pardon for Edward DeBartolo Jr., former owner of the San Francisco 49ers football team, who had pleaded guilty about 20 years ago for not reporting a felony.

Blagojevich was found guilty after meeting some telephone conversations recorded by the FBI where he talked about trying to sell Obama’s vacant seat, saying that it was “something valuable” and that “you don’t give it away for anything.”

In any case, President Trump told reporters on Tuesday that he believed Blagojevich had already served his time in prison, considering it was not a serious enough crime.

“He has been in jail for seven years for a phone call in which nothing happens, for a phone call where he should not have said what he said,” Trump had told reporters last year.

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