“Yes, we commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich,” Trump told reporters just before boarding Air Force One for a four-day trip to the west coast where he is scheduled to hold three campaign rallies. Trump commuted the former governor’s sentence Tuesday after saying for years that he was considering intervening in Blagojevich’s case. By commuting the sentence, the president would free Blagojevich from prison without wiping out the conviction. “Eddie was like that 12th man that was on that football field,” Rice told reporters. It actually was just plain stupidity, and I should have just walked away from it,” DeBartolo told NFL Films for a biographical documentary in 2012.

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