Perhaps the most telling moment of the news conference Rod Blagojevich held hours after President Donald Trump granted the disgraced ex-Illinois governor a full pardon came even before he answered a single question from the media scrum gathered outside his Ravenswood Manor home.

After Rod Blagojevich was arrested in 2008 and convicted of attempting to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat, his home on Sunnyside Avenue became a prime media target.

The ex-governor said he and the president were victims of 'lawfare' and didn't address rumors that he's being considered for an ambassadorship.