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Trump 'seriously considering' a pardon for ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Fox News ^ | August 14, 2017 | Gregg Jarrett

Posted on 08/14/2017 10:43:39 AM PDT by jazusamo

EXCLUSIVE: President Trump may soon issue a pardon for Joe Arpaio, the colorful former Arizona sheriff who was found guilty two weeks ago of criminal contempt for defying a state judge’s order to stop traffic patrols targeting suspected undocumented immigrants. In his final years as Maricopa County sheriff, Arpaio had emerged as a leading opponent of illegal immigration.

“I am seriously considering a pardon for Sheriff Arpaio,” the president said Sunday, during a conversation with Fox News at his club in Bedminster, N.J. “He has done a lot in the fight against illegal immigration. He’s a great American patriot and I hate to see what has happened to him.”

Trump said the pardon could happen in the next few days, should he decide to do so.

Arpaio, 85, was convicted by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton of misdemeanor contempt of court for willfully disregarding an Arizona judge’s order in 2011 to stop the anti-immigrant traffic patrols. Arpaio had maintained the law enforcement patrols for 17 months thereafter.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; arpaio; bordersecurity; illegalaliens; leo; pardon; sheriffarpaio; trump
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To: jazusamo
Absolutely! I pray that he may do so, this week. It is a terrible thing that this patriot has been harassed in this manner.
21 posted on 08/14/2017 10:57:15 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Jim Robinson

This is some good stuff. It was a totally political ‘prosecution’.

You know, like in the Soviet Union.


22 posted on 08/14/2017 10:57:25 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: grobdriver
#4: "This "judge" is the one who should be going to prison. "

To borrow from the famous words of Vice President Cactus Jack Garner, most judges in this country "aren't worth a bucket of warm pi$$".
 

23 posted on 08/14/2017 10:57:26 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: jazusamo

YES....... YES......... YES.
Next. Amund Bundy. That whole over reach by Bureau of Land Management is a total travesty, too.

Please do it, President Trump


24 posted on 08/14/2017 10:59:11 AM PDT by WaterWeWaitinFor ("We will be one people under one God, saluting one American flag". DJT 9/12/16)
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To: Reno89519

Just do it.


25 posted on 08/14/2017 10:59:18 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: jazusamo

“Seriously considering?” Come on President Trump, get it done the sooner the better. And while you’re at it give the Presidential Medal O Freedom to such stalwarts as Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, Savage etc. That would really frost the libs b@^^s.


26 posted on 08/14/2017 11:03:57 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: kenmcg

Give out the name of the judge! Then pardon Sheriff Joe and announce his was a political hit job by the Obama administration...


27 posted on 08/14/2017 11:07:03 AM PDT by princess leah
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To: jazusamo

Consider consider, investigate investigate.

Can we actually DO anything!


28 posted on 08/14/2017 11:09:35 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: jazusamo
I called it with this July 31 tweet


29 posted on 08/14/2017 11:12:43 AM PDT by doug from upland (Mayflower Hotel --- hotel of choice for Dem officials and their hookers)
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To: jazusamo

Pardon Joe Arpaio today.....appointment him to supervise AZ boarder patrol.....Ha Ha


30 posted on 08/14/2017 11:12:51 AM PDT by mastertex
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To: jazusamo

Good. Do it.


31 posted on 08/14/2017 11:13:10 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: heights
It should have happened the day he was charged.

Not necessarily. It would have been better if Sheriff Arpaio had been vendicated with a not guilty verdict.

32 posted on 08/14/2017 11:14:22 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: heights

I stand with President Trump!

Your statement seems clintonesque, IMHO.


33 posted on 08/14/2017 11:17:06 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: jazusamo

Please.


34 posted on 08/14/2017 11:17:52 AM PDT by Yaelle (We have a Crisis of Information in this country. Our enemies hold the megaphone.)
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To: jazusamo

Not only that, he should replace McMaster with Arpaio as his national security advisor.


35 posted on 08/14/2017 11:18:23 AM PDT by Mafe
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To: heights

Arpaio may have asked Trump to hold off waiting for the appeal process to finish. I have no doubt that Trump will pardon Sheriff Joe.


36 posted on 08/14/2017 11:19:54 AM PDT by kabar
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To: jazusamo

He will do it because it is the right thing to do.


37 posted on 08/14/2017 11:27:15 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: jazusamo

Seriously he should! Love to see the democrats explode.


38 posted on 08/14/2017 11:40:10 AM PDT by trustandobey
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To: grobdriver
This "judge" is the one who should be going to prison.

Damn straight.

39 posted on 08/14/2017 11:42:14 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: jazusamo

I do not believe that the President has this power.

It is my belief that the President’s power to pardon is limited to federal crimes.


40 posted on 08/14/2017 11:43:15 AM PDT by steve in DC
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