Posted on 08/27/2017 9:34:26 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
As Joseph Arpaio’s federal case headed toward trial this past spring, President Trump wanted to act to help the former Arizona county sheriff who had become a campaign-trail companion and a partner in their crusade against illegal immigration.
The president asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions whether it would be possible for the government to drop the criminal case against Arpaio, but was advised that would be inappropriate, according to three people with knowledge of the conversation.
After talking with Sessions, Trump decided to let the case go to trial, and if Arpaio was convicted, he could grant clemency.
Trump and Arpaio became brothers in arms five years ago. As they saw it, the two provocateurs — one a celebrity real estate developer, the other a polarizing sheriff — were pursuing justice in the form of supposed evidence that Obama’s birth certificate was fraudulent.
“There was no collusion,” Arpaio said in an interview Saturday. “I started my birth certificate investigation around the same time he did his.”
The Manhattan mogul sent Arpaio a fan letter and flattered him on social media. “Congratulations to @RealSheriffJoe on his successful Cold Case Posse investigation which claims @BarackObama’s ‘birth certificate’ is fake,” Trump tweeted in 2012.
Three years later, in July 2015, when Trump swooped into Arpaio’s hometown of Phoenix for the first mega-rally of his upstart presidential campaign, the sheriff returned the favor by testifying on stage to “the silent majority” that Trump had begun to awaken.
Backstage at that rally, Arpaio recalled, the two men talked about their shared birthday — June 14, which is Flag Day. Their friendship blossomed and Arpaio became a fan favorite at Trump rallies. “I had a gut feeling that he was going to win,” Arpaio said.
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IMO it’s very probable 0bama was born in Hawaii. There’s two things, however I’ve always found odd. Of all the people still alive who worked at the hospital he allegedly was born in, nobody has any recollection of him being there. Unusual because, in those days anytime a White woman gave birth to a child whose father was Black it certainly would’ve raised a few eyebrows. Also the moment he was officially declared President elect you’d think the hospital administrators would immediately commission artists and stone masons to design build and erect some monument to be loudly and proudly displayed at the main entrance to commemorate such an historic event. And surely, like other Presidential birthplaces the hospital would’ve been landmarked by now.
Thanks for the ping!
Hey Compost, just keep digging, please.
“I think “Sid Viscious” was the guy on Hillary’s team responsible for pushing the Barry was born in Kenya story.”
Bath house Barry wasn’t born, he was hatched out of the a$$ end of a white female pit viper.
Yep. They see the Russian collusion story slowly evaporating so they've got to come up with some backup plans to keep Mueller's investigation going.
And don’t forget, the woman who drowned in the plane crash in Maui who was in charge of birth records for the State of Hawaii. And remember, she was the only one in the “crash” who didn’t survive.
“Hey Compost, just keep digging, please.”
Written by another capo, Rucker the F*cker!
Arpaio PROVED that the “birth certificate” is a digitally-created forgery.
Anyone who denies this is totally dishonest.
I am embarrassed when journalists with all their education failing to properly state the facts about the constitution.
It was nice of him to ask. Trump COULD have ordered Sessions to drop it. The president clearly has that power. The modern usurpers love to pretend the DOJ is a new independent 4th branch of government that is beyond being ordered around in any way.
That’s a lie.
‘IMO it’s very probable 0bama was born in Hawaii.’
One-handed percent improbable, as a matter of fact. 1, No eyewitness places Obama’s mother in HI at any point during her pregnancy.
2, Stanley Ann was not living at the Kalanianaole Highway address, the ‘home,’ listed on both the BC and the birth announcements, nor (per a resident of the house) did she bring a baby home from the hospital to that address.
3, The first actual sighting of Obama’s mother after her 9 mo disappearance was in Seattle. She had a newborn with her at the time.
Hmm.
You are most welcome, as always! I was beginning to think this day would never come and Trump would get nailed before he could save the Sheriff. Now we have to see if Sheriff Arpaio can get the BC investigation restarted and get more incontrovertible forensic evidence into the public domain to gain support for it.
A good, honest attorney general would drop the case without being asked. Unless I’m missing something.
+1
Sessions is a lost cause. Somehow, some way, Trump needs to replace him.
And that was also inappropriate.
Maybe Sessions knows that Sheriff Arpaio is going to restart the “birther” investigation.
If Sheriff Arpaio now presents courtroom ready forensic evidence that Barry’s BC is forged and Sessions agrees to demand that Hawaii produce the original, Sessions will be in a much better position now.
At least he can say “I prosecuted Sheriff Arpaio to conviction. It was Trump who pardoned him. I judge each case on the merits.”
I like it.
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