President Trump pardons former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who has been convicted of corruption-related crimes, including attempts to sell the U.S. evacuated by former President Barack Obama Senate seats.

Blagojevich served as governor of the state from 2003 to 2009. This is a political legend at the end of his tenure.

In 2008, federal prosecutors accused Blagojevich of turning the Illinois government into its own money-making action by trying to shake the owners of children's hospitals and racecourses. When prosecutors accused Blagojevic of corruption in the Senate seat, they expressed his blasphemous telephone conversation as evidence, he secretly documented the FBI.

"I mean, I already have this thing, it's (exaggerated) gold. And I just didn't give up (no one)," Blagojevich said.

He argued that he was just engaged in the political horse trade and then went on a national propaganda journey to declare his innocence.

Blagojevich was impeached each and removed as governor in January 2009, and then sued the march. The following year, he appeared and was launched by Donald Trump's reality TV show Celebrity Apprentice.

Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 and later sentenced to 14 years in prison. He served for eight years and shortened his time after President Trump’s first sentence in office.

Many leading Illinois Democrats and Republicans criticized the move. In a state where corrupt machine-style politics is very common, it is important that those convicted of it all sentenced to jail in prison, the then Republican chairman of the Illinois said in a statement.

Blagojevich and his wife Patti held a press conference after they were released from prison. He is a released political prisoner, saying the criminal justice system is both broken and unfair.

"We want to express our deepest and most eternal thanks to President Trump," Blagojevic said. "How do you correctly thank someone who gave you the freedom you stole from you?"

The former Democratic governor also declared himself "Trump-Sovement".

President Trump said he is awarding Blagojevic full pardon. He called Blagojevich's verdict "terrible injustice" and he called the former Illinois governor a good man.