Posted on 08/28/2017 4:24:55 PM PDT by cotton1706
"Let Me Tell You Who Obama Pardoned" Trump Destroys Reporter Over Joe Arpaio Pardon
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“So Trump defends his own abuse of the process by listing the abuses of Obama and Clinton? “
No, Trump was saying to the press why are you just now caring about Arpaio who was actually upholding the law, when you didn’t give a Shit about the shameful Clinton and Obama pardons.
He was pointing out the hypocrisy of the press, rather than making excuses for himself.
FreeReign did not make that statement.
Let’s be grateful for what we saw!
In much the same way Reagan stopped the global spread of communism that had been completely unchecked up until that time, Trump has at least stopped the 24x7 kowtowing and groveling of a non-Democrat President to those who attack him.
I am thrilled.
Aaaaaaand.....that’s why he was elected.
I know. I was just too lazy to ping the fogblower.
I have always respected your views on many things, Vermont Lt., but I have to disagree with you on this.
AppyPappy, there sure are times over the last six months or so I have thought that was a certainty!
It’s about damned time he brought obama into questions from the media!!!!!!!!! This should have been done months ago... keep bringing obama into these questions!! the media has gotten away with accusing Trump of things he did not do, but obama DID... they don’t want their viewers to hear about obama... keep telling what he did...keep turning every question back to the king of the media.. keep reminding the viewers via the media.. just who obama is/was.
BTW.. when I first heard the name, barack husein obama, I thought he was a foreigner... no American running for the highest office in the land, would have that name.. it didn’t sound American.. and he wasn’t American!
Been awhile since I saw that term, lol.
I’d like to think that Roberts asked this question to give Trump a chance to answer as he did. I saw a replay of the answer, but didn’t see who asked it.
JohnnyP, get your attribution of that quotation correct. It’s not mine!
SaveFerris, thanks for the headsup.
That was my first thought. John threw him a batting practice pitch and he hit it 450 feet.
What you want.
Thanks for allowing me to say that.
I once had the chance to tee it up for Pres Bush. It was Feb, 2002 at a town hall meeting in Ontario, CA. I talked to people to see how he called on people to ask a question. A split second after the first question was answered, I jumped from my seat with my hand up and he saw me. I timed it right and he called on me. No one asked me what I was going to say, unlike the Dem rallies where everything is scripted.
Here is what I remember: Sir, first a message from the crew of the the USS ENTERPRISE, which just returned. My son in law was on that fine ship. They wanted you to know that every last one of them is honored to call you their commander in chief. [At that, I thought he was about to cry.]
They then tried to take the microphone from me but I wouldn’t let okay and said I didn’t get to ask my question. “After you make Tommy Daschle go to his room from being bad [lots of laughter from the crowd], what are you going to do about our dependence on foreign oil.
That question gave him a chance to hit it out of the park.
See post #49.
Roberts acted like an a$$hole when he responded after the President's answer. Roberts was so concerned that his fellow vermin in the WH Press Corps would criticize him for asking a "softball" question that he said, "I'd like to claim prescience that you did all the research, but the question was pretty obvious." Roberts didn't want to create the impression that he had given the President the question in advance.
Another Never Trumper makes their self known.
It makes a lot of sense given the MSM's reaction to the Arpaio pardon versus the egregious pardons by Clinton and Obama that drew scant rebukes by the MSM.
And the Arpaio case is far different. You need to read this: RINOS Wrong on Arpaio This was a gross miscarriage of justice by a politicized Obama DOJ. The Obama appointed Judge prevented a trial by jury and the charges were limited to a misdemeanor for political reasons.
"Arpaio was cleverly denied a jury of his peers, a jury comprised of Arizona citizens beset by illegal aliens and the crimes they commit, according to National Center for Police Defense (NCPD) President James Fotis, who was present in the courtroom, and was highly skeptical a Phoenix jury could have ever found Arpaio guilty. He told Breitbart News:
“I sat through three days of testimony and it was clear from the beginning that the DOJ had no evidence to make their case. In fact, all of the DOJ’s witnesses made it clear that Judge Snow’s order was unclear and ambiguous. There is no way a jury would have determined that the Sheriff willfully and intentionally violated the judge’s order.”
As Investor’s Business Daily editorialized at the time, the decision to prosecute Joe Arpaio smacked of hypocrisy, injustice, and legal gymnastics involving one Thomas Perez, current foul-mouthed head of the Democratic National Committee and former Obama administration DOJ official
The administration that refused to enforce voting rights law in the New Black Panther case is going after America's best-known sheriff for what it calls discriminatory policing practices involving Hispanics…
With a thoroughness not seen in Justice's handling of the "Fast and Furious" federal gun-running debacle that resulted in the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry a year ago, Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez, head of the department's Civil Rights Division, listed Arpaio's alleged excesses and said a three-year civil investigation found that the sheriff and his deputies engaged in unconstitutional conduct and violations of federal law that jeopardized his "commitment to fair and effective" law enforcement…
No doubt Arpaio has been under scrutiny for some time. But the timing of the announcement is curious, not only because of the announced Supreme Court review of SB1070, but also because it can be seen as another attempt to rally the president's Hispanic base as we enter an election year, and to portray border security advocates as racist and anti-Latino.
If the name Thomas Perez sounds familiar, it should: Perez was heavily involved in the decision to drop the voter intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party. Perez testified before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that "the facts did not constitute a prosecutable violation of the federal criminal civil rights statutes."
The fact is that Joe Arpaio was in fact enforcing federal law as originally written, only to have the Obama administration rewrite the law in order to prosecute Arpaio. Under the federal government’s 287(g) program, Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office was authorized and trained to enforce federal immigration law and ask those suspected of a crime their immigration status.
Who is Joe Arpaio? Arpaio was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on June 14, 1932, to Italian parents, both from Lacedonia, Italy. Arpaio's mother died while giving birth to him, and he was raised by his father. Arpaio completed high school and worked in his father's business until age 18 when he enlisted in the United States Army. He served in the Army from 1950 to 1954 in the Medical Department and was stationed in France for part of the time as a military policeman.
Following his army discharge in 1954, Arpaio moved to Washington, D.C., and became a police officer, moving in 1957 to Las Vegas, Nevada. He served as a police officer in Las Vegas for six months before being appointed as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which later became part of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). During his 25-year tenure with the DEA, he was stationed in Argentina, Turkey, and Mexico, and advanced through the ranks to the position of head of the DEA's Arizona branch.
Arpaio was first elected as sheriff of Maricopa County in 1992. He was re-elected in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012.
It is a shame that Trump had to issue a pardon. Arpaio should never have been charged in the first place.
But you’re being disingenuous by implying that if one president’s pardon is an abuse of power, then another president’s pardon must also be an abuse of power.
Using the power to pardon doesn’t represent an abuse of power in and of itself. Whether or not it is an abuse of power depends on whether the pardon serves justice or obstructs justice.
I’ll use an analogy. If I use my first amendment right of free speech to spew lies and hate, that is an abuse of my right. I still have that right, but it is an abuse.
Trump and all other presidents have the power to pardon, whether they abuse it or not. The reason for it is to prevent innocent people from having their lives ruined by politically motivated witch hunts.
Trump pardoned a man who he believed was innocent and the victim of a judge on a political witch hunt. That is a textbook example of why the pardoning power exists. Hardly an abuse.
Obama pardoned criminals not to correct injustices but rather to repay political debts - and in so doing he prevented justice from being served.
I don’t know why you are choosing to conflate these two opposite cases, I think you know better.
Nomatter how unreasonable your post, people should remain civil in their responses, but that doesn’t mean they can’t politely call BS.
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