Replies

-- why is he wasting cycles on this dead issue? --

CNN is using the issue as a cudgel against Arpaio.

CUOMO: Let's look at it in a different way. You're kind of reintroducing yourselves to the voters there. Is there regret that you hold in your heart for conditions the people were kept in? The nature of immigration enforcement? The birtherism claims about President Obama, things that are black marks on your record. Do you have regret? Do you have any change on any of those?
ARPAIO: Well, you know, Frank Sinatra says "My Way" regret, so I few (INAUDIBLE) and I will repeat that to you. But with no -- I have no regrets. We did the right thing. My people did the right thing, we were very successful throughout my 24-year tenure, the longest-serving sheriff in the history of Maricopa County. No, I don't have a regret, a few mistakes, yes. Everybody makes mistakes.
CUOMO: Was the birtherism a mistake?
ARPAIO: Oh, now you're bringing that up.
CUOMO: Why wouldn't I?
ARPAIO: I'm going to tell you s something.
CUOMO: Do you think it doesn't matter? You want to be a U.S. senator and you were part of a campaign to delegitimize a president of the United States? Matters, you know.
ARPAIO: No, I started this because of fake document -- a government document. I didn't care where the president came from. I didn't care at all. That we had the evidence, nobody will talk about it, nobody will look at it. And anytime you want to come down, or anybody we'll be glad to show you the evidence.
[21:40:01] And by the way you'll -- you're going to hear more about this fake --
CUOMO: Do you believe that President Obama's birth certificate is a phony?
ARPAIO: No doubt about it. No doubt about it. We had the evidence, I'm not going to go into all the details.
CUOMO: You know, even Donald Trump now says that --
ARPAIO: It's a phony document.
CUOMO: -- that he believes that the president was born in this country, right?
ARPAIO: He never said about a fake birth certificate, that's the only thing I was trying to prove.

CNN - Jan 10, 2018

Somebody needs to fly this comment back in the face of Cuomo:

“Do you think it doesn’t matter? You want to be a U.S. senator and you were part of a campaign to delegitimize a president of the United States? Matters, you know.”

Cuomo needs to explain why he hasn’t asked all the Trump-haters - especially those who have been found to commit CRIMES to “delegitimize a president of the United States” - if they really think that doesn’t matter.