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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This is some good stuff. It was a totally political ‘prosecution’.
You know, like in the Soviet Union.
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$$".
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
Just do it.
“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.
Give out the name of the judge! Then pardon Sheriff Joe and announce his was a political hit job by the Obama administration...
Consider consider, investigate investigate.
Can we actually DO anything!
Pardon Joe Arpaio today.....appointment him to supervise AZ boarder patrol.....Ha Ha
Good. Do it.
Not necessarily. It would have been better if Sheriff Arpaio had been vendicated with a not guilty verdict.
I stand with President Trump!
Your statement seems clintonesque, IMHO.
Please.
Not only that, he should replace McMaster with Arpaio as his national security advisor.
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.
He will do it because it is the right thing to do.
Seriously he should! Love to see the democrats explode.
Damn straight.
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.
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