People found guilty of violent acts against police officers were released, as were leaders of far-right extremist groups plotting to keep Trump in power despite his 2020 election loss to former President Joe Biden.
The expected pardon comes weeks after Trump granted clemency on his first day back in the White House to more than 1,500 people charged with crimes in connection to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Blagojevich supported Trump after he was indicted in the New York hush-money case, comparing his own legal problems to Trump’s.
The ex-governor served eight years behind bars for trying to sell Barack Obama’s senate seat following the former president’s 2008 election victory.
Following his impeachment and removal from office, Blagojevich appeared on Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice NBC show in 2010, before the beginning of the corruption trial against him.
