Trump assessing ‘many different’ pardon requests, seriously looking at Rod Blagojevich

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President Trump is assessing “many different” pardon and clemency requests, including one submitted this week by disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.

“I will just tell you that the president has received a steady stream of appeals … so he is assessing many different requests,” Conway told reporters at a breakfast in Washington on Wednesday morning.

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