{"id":6018,"date":"2025-02-11T12:20:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T12:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/who-is-rod-blagojevich-who-was-just-pardoned-by-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T12:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T12:20:30","slug":"who-is-rod-blagojevich-who-was-just-pardoned-by-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/who-is-rod-blagojevich-who-was-just-pardoned-by-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Rod Blagojevich, who was just pardoned by Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Monday signed a full and unconditional pardon for Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois, who served eight years in prison on corruption charges until Trump commuted his sentence in 2020. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s my honor to do it. I&rsquo;ve watched him. He was set up by a lot of bad people,&rdquo; Trump&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5137535-who-is-rod-blagojevich-trump-pardon\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Monday signed a full and unconditional pardon for Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois, who served eight years in prison on corruption charges until Trump commuted his sentence in 2020. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s my honor to do it. I&rsquo;ve watched him. He was set up by a lot of bad people,&rdquo; Trump&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}