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Washington, Feb. 18 (EFE) .- US leader Donald Trump pardoned former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Tuesday, who in 2011 was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption while trying to profit from the Senate seat that Barack Obama set free when he assumed the Presidency in 2009.FOOTAGE COURTESY OF THE WHITE HOUSE.STATEMENTS BY DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE US

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