After his release from prison, Blagojevich, who was a Democrat, said that he's "profoundly grateful" to President Donald Trump.
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, freed from prison Tuesday, heaped"profound and everlasting gratitude" on President Donald Trump for commuting his sentence.
"He didn't have to do this. He’s a Republican president; I was a Democratic governor," Blagojevich said."My fellow Democrats have not been very kind to him. ... In fact, they’ve been very unkind to him." Blagojevich had been at the low-security Federal Correctional Institute in Englewood, Colorado. He was a contestant on Trump's reality TV show"The Celebrity Apprentice" in 2010.
Blagojevich, who said he was planning a news conference Wednesday, said he was looking forward to returning home to his family.
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