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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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Yes, do it President Trump. MAGA!
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:43:39 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
To: jazusamo
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:44:27 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:45:10 AM PDT
by
KittyKares
(Drain the Swamp)
To: jazusamo
or willfully disregarding an Arizona judge’s order in 2011 This "judge" is the one who should be going to prison.
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:45:40 AM PDT
by
grobdriver
(Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
To: jazusamo
😱😭. Lib heads a'poppin'.
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:45:45 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: jazusamo
That would be the best news I’d have heard all year!
Please do it, and do it soon.
Elderly folks don’t need this kind of stress.
Arpaio is tough, but he’s been through the propaganda wringer for at least the last ten years.
To: jazusamo
Considering it? It should have happened the day he was charged. Trump is a wimp.
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:47:30 AM PDT
by
heights
To: jazusamo
Can a president pardon at any time of the year?
I ask that because it’s usually toward late December when I hear about Presidential Pardons.
Or maybe it just seems that way.
To: lee martell
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:47:51 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:50:08 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:50:44 AM PDT
by
LeoWindhorse
(America First !)
To: heights
The MSM thanks you for your statement.
MAGA!
Please bump the Freepathon or click above to donate or become a monthly donor!
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:52:28 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
When I think of the term 'RAILROADED', I think of what Team Obama attempted to do to the good Sheriff: PUNISHING HIM FOR TRYING TO STOP THE ILLEGAL INVADERS FROM CONQUERING ARIZONA.
UPHOLDING FEDERAL LAW IS NOT A CRIME ANYMORE.. I hope President Trump pardons Arpaio!
Glad to hear Trump has not forgotten this PATRIOT RAILROADED BY OBAMADULLAH.
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:52:32 AM PDT
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Feminism DESTROYED females)
To: jazusamo
A Presidential Pardon for a misdemeanor conviction may well be a first.
To: lee martell
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:53:56 AM PDT
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jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
Don’t just think about it, do it.
And end DACA like you said you would.
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:54:54 AM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
To: jazusamo
President Trump needs to do it. That prosecution and the sentence were a miscarriage of justice.
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:55:00 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: cowboyusa
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:56:03 AM PDT
by
gunnyg
("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:56:12 AM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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