Trump asked Sessions about closing case against Arpaio, an ally since ‘birtherism’

WaPo ^ | August 26, 2017 | Philip Rucker and Ellen Nakashima

[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.

[Fantasywriter]

Is Obama a Republican?

No?

Then he’s safe from Sessions.

Sad but true.

(Jmo)

[YogicCowboy]

Anything that supports MAGA will be found inappropriate by the treacherous gentleman.

Jeff is permanently not in Sessions.

[Lurkinanloomin]

“Birtherism” is the greatest Alinsky ever perpetrated.

They have gotten the American people to reject one of the most valuable safeguards bequeathed to us by the founders.
The natural born citizen clause served us well until we ignored it.
Barry Soetoro/Barack Hussein Obama should be proof enough of the wisdom of the founders when they tried to prevent him from being President by requiring someone who could only be a US citizen and nothing else.
Born here of citizen parents.
Naturally a US citizen because there is no other possibility.
One cannot be anything else and also be a natural born citizen.

It does not matter if he was born in Hawaii if his father was a foreign national.
Children of foreign nationals inherit the nationality of their foreign national parent(s).
Natural born citizen means born here of citizen parents.
No other possible citizenship(s).
Only when one cannot be anything else can one be a natural born citizen.

No foreign birth.
No foreign parent(s)
No foreign citizenship(s)
No foreign influence on the Presidency is what John Jay stated in a letter to George Washington as the reason for insisting on a natural born citizen.

Obama told us he was born a British subject.

Who believes Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Jay, Monroe, Madison, etc. would have found him to be a natural born citizen?

Who believes they would have thought the recently deceased King of Thailand was eligible to be President?
He was born in Cambridge MA.

Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009, happened with the complete cooperation of both parties.
They want the Constitution changed without the hassle of amending the Constitution.
Confuse people about the clear meaning of a three word phrase and voila, every anchor baby and Winston Churchill is eligible.

The bench was the reason the GOP went along with the fig leaf resolution for McCain that was used by the Democrats as cover for Obama.
Jindal, Rubio, Haley, George P. Bush and Cruz were all up and comers and the future of the party and ineligible.

The truth of the Kenyanesian Usurpation will never see the light of day because both parties cooperated in the violation of the Constitution

[generally]

What “proper channels”???

It is my understanding that the President can pardon anyone he wants for any reason.

Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich for a cash kickback. Are those “channels” more “proper” ?

[Hotlanta Mike]

And it was because of Trump that Soetoro had to publish a forged government document on the White House website.

[reasonisfaith]

I now think the better answer is the second part of my comment, which is that I’m missing something that’s going on behind the scenes.

One thing is certain—there is no reasonable way, given the information we have, to say the things you say about Sessions.

[Seizethecarp]

“And it was because of Trump that Soetoro had to publish a forged government document on the White House website.”

Trump and also Corsi’s book Where’s the BC reaching #1 on the NYT best-seller list in Amazon pre-order sight unseen!

[thecodont]

Thanks for the ping!

[Seizethecarp]

Next up, Sheriff Arpaio’s press conference on Tuesday at which time he says he will defend himself against all the stuff that is being said against him!

[LucyT]

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PING

Check article, and esp. comments.

Thanks, Seizethecarp.

[Liz]

(hat tip Kenya Sunday Standard)

DID PRESIDENT OBAMA ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING FOR HIS HOMELAND?

<><> 2 billion US tax dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood,

<><> $50 million US tax dollars to his tax-exempt foundation in the form of a grant to Kenya.

<><> Total US Foreign Aid to Kenya (FY 2012): $749,236,440

<><> $418M arms sale to Kenya

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(FR Posted by RobinMasters)

A Kenyan lawmaker told the nation's Parliament last month (March 2010) that Barack Obama was born in Africa and is therefore "not even a native American."

During debate over the draft of a new Kenyan constitution, James Orengo, the country's minister of lands and a member of parliament for the Ugenya constituency, cited America's election of a Kenyan-born president as an example of what can be accomplished when diverse peoples unite:

"If America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity and did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation," Orengo posited, "how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the president of America?"

Orengo held up the U.S. as a country no longer "living in the past," since Americans elected a Kenyan-born president without regard to "ethnic consideration and objectives."

Debate is then recorded in the Kenyan government's official March 25, 2010, hansard – a traditional name for printed transcripts of a parliamentary debate – as continuing with no other MPs mentioning or attempting to correct Orengo's comments about Obama.

[SaveFerris]

I’ll go ahead and don my official tinfoil hat and say the judge who went after Arpaio was on a personal crusade for a little payback for the doubt by the Cold Case Posse.

They never really got it done, but how dare they insult the false messiah of liberalism.

[LS]

As a historian I can tell you sooner or later almost everything comes out. No records remain sealed forever.

[DoodleDawg]

Unlike the hundreds of other stories on the Trump pardon to date, at least this story correctly reports that Arpaio and Trump did NOT claim that Barry was born in Kenya but ONLY that his BC was a FORGERY!

Would have been nice if one group of investigators or the other had presented their evidence.

[DoodleDawg]

I hope Trump calls for the investigation of the fake BC next.

LOL is right. I'd be happy if he just released the results of the birth certificate investigation from four or so years ago that he said was finding amazing things.

[Brown Deer]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/joe-arpaio-may-challenge-jeff-flake-for-arizona-senate-seat/article/2632732

[little jeremiah]

Tremendous research was done by freepers and others, much but not all of it posted on FR on research threads. A tremendous amount is known. I hope I live long enough to see it all made public.

[Seizethecarp]

“Would have been nice if one group of investigators or the other had presented their evidence.”

Reid Hayes in Hawaii and the forensic laboratory in Italy prepared confidential reports commissioned by Sheriff Arpaio and owned by him. The reports “courtroom ready” are intended to be presented to a grand jury or court of law only and not to the general public. Premature release of what is in the reports would tip off Barry’s lawyers to what is coming and possibly result in destruction of evidence.

[Fred Nerks]

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.

Agree with 1 & 2. But 3 is problematic imo. The babysitter referred to the tenant at the apartment house she managed as Anna, and she did not name the child, nor say how old that child was. She did however, fix the timing with the age of her own daughter who was born in July, 1959 as being 18 months of age. That indicates the baby-sitting took place in January 1961. Later, during a telephone interview with Jerome Corsi, she attempted to correct herself by stating the child she babysat was seven months of age, which again indicated January 1961. It was Charlette LeFevre of the Seattle Museum of the Mysteries who identified Anna Obama as Stanley Ann Dunham.

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2306351/posts?page=11984#11984

She became Ann Dunham Obama in January 1963, about the same time as she showed up with a toddler in Hawaii.