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After receiving President Trump's first pardon, Joe Arpaio's plans have gone from possible prison to book-writing, speeches and potentially another run for office in Arizona, with Sen. Jeff Flake's seat one opportunity he is eyeing. The former Maricopa County sheriff told the Washington Examiner he's upset at negative reaction to the Friday pardon, and that he feels Republican politicians are insufficiently supportive of the president, who he calls a great man. "I could run for mayor, I could run for legislator, I could run for Senate," Arpaio said Monday. One particular race, however, is likely to gain significant attention: the...

President Trump stood up for justice and for enforcement of our immigration laws when he courageously granted a pardon Friday to Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. Despite knowing he would face criticism, the president did what was right. Arpaio was convicted by a federal judge in July of criminal contempt after being charged with violating a court order that attempted to prevent suspected illegal immigrants from being targeted by the sheriff’s traffic patrols. The sheriff acknowledged continuing the patrols, but said that targeting was not the focus. Arpaio’s conviction arose out of a lawsuit wrongfully accusing...

Chiricahua National Monument Celebrates the Contribution of Buffalo Soldiers to the National Park Service WILLCOX -- Special exhibits will be displayed at the Chiricahua Visitor Center from Sept. 4 to 30to honor Buffalo Soldiers. One exhibit describes the past and future archaeological work in Bonita Canyon to document the Buffalo Soldiers’ encampment. Buffalo Soldiers patrolled Bonita Canyon from 1885-1886, an area that became part of Chiricahua National Monument when it was established in 1924. The park archaeologist developed this exhibit. Another exhibit focuses on the Buffalo Soldiers and Colonel Charles Young, the highest ranking African-American officer in the US Army...

WaPo news ticker, Trump pardons Sheriff Joe!! Waiting for link now.....

The infamous Mr. Pepperballs shot in the groin after the Phoenix Trump rally is in a lot of trouble. After failing to disperse and leave the area as ordered by the police, he was part of a group of protesters that started throwing rocks, water bottles and at least one pepper bomb at the police. The police launched a tear gas canister in his direction, and he tried to kick it back at the police. He's been charged with one misdemeanor count of unlawful assembly and three felony counts of aggravated assault. The minimum he could be charged with is...

Yet as one of the videos shows, the news van's headlights were pointed at the memorial before, during, and after the incident, illuminating it as the suspect spray-painted the monument. Channel 12's team arrived in the parking lot of Wesley Bolin Plaza just after 4:40 a.m., the video shows, seconds after the vandalism suspect rode up on a bicycle. The suspect appears to have ridden or walked near the van before and after the incident, which is still being investigated by the Arizona Department of Public Safety. In contrast, West reported on the morning news, and also in a live video on...

The news just keeps getting worse for Jeff 'The Flake' as a new poll shows him trailing Kelli Ward by 14 points. Flake, who voted for Evan McMullin in the 2016 election, only accomplishment as a senator was to push for amnesty as a member of the 'gang of eight'. Flake has spent the last couple of months trying to sell his new book by going on liberal networks to bash the president. Flake siding with Hillary Clinton, Obama, and the democrats on gun control, open borders, on the supreme court, and on unbridled free trade has shown Arizona republicans...

Phoenix police said they arrested the man who was hit by a gas round during the Trump protest after kicking a gas can toward officers on Tuesday night. Police said he's still being interviewed and hasn't been booked on any charges yet. When 3TV/CBS 5 talked to him on Wednesday, he asked us not to use his name. Phoenix police haven't identified him. [READ MORE: Protester hit by gas round talks about his exchange with Phoenix police] The man was caught on video, that has since gone viral, kicking a can of tear gas back at police officers. They returned...

I guess this is what we can look forward to for the foreseeable future. When the president of the United States decides to show up somewhere and say words, left-wingers will riot. And why not? The Washington Post is already building the narrative that conservatives who dare to say words are instigating the inevitable violence. The mayor of Phoenix, who is a Democrat, asked Trump to cancel the Tuesday night rally - mainly out of partisan motivation but also because he knew this would probably happen. When a left-wing mob threatens to wreak havoc and assault your police, give them...

A New poll shows Arizona Senator Jeff Flake is in big trouble, in what might be the toughest political race of his career. AZ Highground reports Flake is trailing Kelli Ward by 14%. AZ Highground reports: A statewide Arizona survey of 400 likely Arizona 2018 General Election voters shows Republican incumbent Senator Jeff Flake fourteen points behind his primary Republican opponent Kelli Ward and eight points behind prospective Democratic opponent U.S. Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema (D, AZ-9). Q. If the primary election for United States Senate were held today, would you vote for [Rotate] Jeff Flake or Kelli Ward? 28.2% Jeff...

I'll let the ad speak for itself...

I checked out the Lamestream Media coverage this morning . As you already know , it was, as they might have phrased it in their PC speech, “Reality Challenged”. Might start calling them 'Unhinged Media' now. The latest smearstorm is that Trump is crazy and must go. Perhaps some of the media are so divorced from reality they've actually gone off the deep end. My take is they are just following orders handed down to them from the “Ministry of Truth”. ( A little ”Orwellian” speak there, our modern Ministry of Truth is probably more like a mental orgy where...

A group of anti-Trump demonstrators used gas canisters, rocks and bottles to assault police Tuesday night and create havoc at what officials said was mostly a peaceful protest in Phoenix. Video captured by a local reporter also shows a smoking object being thrown at police while hundreds of officers attempted to keep order at a rally after President Trump's speech at the Phoenix Convention Center had ended. Video appears to show demonstrators throw canisters at police pic.twitter.com/inNJoCf82V

This is an update to the following article: http://investmentwatchblog.com/breaking-news-paid-actors-to-protest-at-president-trumps-arizona-rally-tonight/ This is an investigation into the validity of the Craigslist Ad which popped up in an Arizona newspaper before President Trump’s Rally in Phoenix Arizona last night. (August 22, 2017). I am searching for the actual ad itself in the actual newspaper. I have found what appears to me to be an actual ad from CRAIGSLIST, BUT IT IS NOT THE ONE I AM LOOKING FOR, NEVERTHELESS, IT IS AN AD THAT CAN BE DEEMED A PART OF THIS INVESTIGATION.

On Monday, August 21, I attended a volunteer orientation in response to a call for help for the Trump rally the following day. It was not clear that this was from the Trump campaign or the Arizona GOP, but at any rate I and dozens and dozens of other people showed up at the Arizona Republican Party HQ. So many showed up, in fact, that they had to do orientations in shifts. Judging by the names on the rolls, they got about three times as many people as they needed. Instead of being ushers or working inside, however, we were...

""News hosts shocked into near-silence as Trump protester is shot in GROIN with rubber bullet as police open up with tear gas canisters on crowds after Phoenix rally"" Anti-Donald-Trump protests turned into skirmishes with police in Phoenix on Tuesday, as cops unloaded on the crowds gathered outside his rally with tear gas. In one wince-inducing moment screened on CBS5 and captured on Twitter, one protester - clad in a gas mask - kicked a canister of tear gas back at police. Seconds later a cloud of dust mushroomed up from his groin and he doubled up in agony. 'A guy...

PHOENIX - Authorities have deployed safety tactics an an effort to disperse crowds in downtown Phoenix after President Donald Trump's rally concluded. Video and photos showed authorities discharging pepper balls and tear gas toward crowds, along with the sounds of large noises, possibly flash bangs. Phoenix Police said via email that some people began throwing "rocks and bottles" at officers. Authorities then responded with pepper balls and gas. Trump spoke for roughly 90 minutes within the Phoenix Convention Center on Tuesday night. Prior to his speech, hundreds of people gathered for hours outside the Convention Center in downtown Phoenix to...

As protesters for and against President Trump awaited under a brutal Arizona sun for his arrival to a rally here, one question surfaced repeatedly: Which President Trump would show up? Would it be the president who on Monday night soberly acknowledged the error of his pledge to pull U.S. troops from Afghanistan and laid out, albeit with few specifics, his preferred path forward in a conflict that has raged for more than a dozen years? Or would it be the far more familiar Trump, the president who has long reveled amid his giant crowds of supporters, whose adoration more often...

Tim, Cindy and Jillian Henry drove four and a half hours from Ontario, California to Phoenix to see President Donald Trump. Frado Smith is from Miami and Ralph Medina is from Texas. They are vendors selling Trump T-shirts and hats to fans of the U.S. president outside the Phoenix Convention. Trump is holding a campaign rally there — his first since the violence at an alt-right protest Charlottesville, Virginia. Trump isn’t slated to speak until 7 p.m. and the doors to the convention center won’t open until 4 p.m.. Anti-Trump protests are expected to get going later this afternoon. Opponents...

The last time a president visited the border in Yuma, Arizona, was 2007, when then-President George W. Bush came to oversee the massive fence-building campaign he’d begun a year earlier, hoping to get a handle on the sea of illegal immigrants flowing north. Ten years later, as President Trump visits Yuma on Tuesday, the region is considered one of the border’s clearest success stories. A surge in fencing and Border Patrol agents and a get-tough approach to prosecuting illegal immigrants have produced results that once seemed unimaginable. The number of illegal immigrants arrested — a rough yardstick for the overall...