Rod Blagojevich has officially filed for clemency.

His request comes just days after President Trump said he was thinking about commuting the former Illinois governor’s prison sentence.

Blagojevich has been locked up since 2012 and isn’t scheduled to be released until 2024. He was convicted on numerous counts of corruption following a 2008 FBI investigation, in which he was caught discussing a scheme to sell the US Senate seat once held by Barack Obama.

Trump, however, applauded Blagojevich this week for saying things that “many other politicians say.”

“There was a lot of bravado,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “Plenty of other politicians have said a lot worse… he shouldn’t have been put in jail. And he’s a Democrat. He’s not my party.

But I thought that he was treated unfairly.”

Blagojevich’s lawyers filed the paperwork for executive clemency with the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney, according to the Chicago Tribune.

A spokesman for his legal team reportedly confirmed the request.

Blagojevich and Trump have known each other since the former governor appeared on the president’s reality show “Celebrity Apprentice” in 2010. If Trump denies his request for clemency, Blagojevich won’t be due for release until May 2024.