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A Democratic congressman urged New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to pardon former President Donald Trump for the good of the country. Rep. Dean Phillips, a Minnesota Democrat who briefly challenged President Joe Biden for his party’s presidential nomination, issued his plea on Friday, the day after Trump was convicted by a New York City jury on 34 counts of first-degree falsification of business records. Phillips’ message to Hochul was not entirely magnanimous. Read: Conservative Group Seeks To Reverse California City’s Ban On Chaplains For First-Responders “Donald Trump is a serial liar, cheater, an…