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Rod Blagojevich Declares 'I'm a Trump-ocrat' at ‘Homecoming’ News Conference After Prison Release
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19:27Now PlayingRod Blagojevich arrived home on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump cut short the 14-year prison sentence handed to the former Illinois governor for political corruption.
He flew from Denver to Chicago, arriving at home early Wednesday morning.
The Republican president said the punishment imposed on the Chicago Democrat and one-time contestant on Trump's reality TV show "Celebrity Apprentice" was excessive.
“So he'll be able to go back home with his family”, Trump told reporters in Washington.
“That was a tremendously powerful, ridiculous sentence in my opinion and in the opinion of many others.”
The silver-haired Blagojevich spoke to reporters at Denver International Airport, before he boarded a plane for Chicago.
Blagojevich was famously fastidious about his dark hair as governor, but it went all white because hair dyes are banned in prison.
Blagojevich, 63, hails from a state with a long history of pay-to-play schemes.
He was convicted in 2011 of crimes that included seeking to sell an appointment to Barack Obama's old Senate seat and trying to shake down a children's hospital.
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