Posted on 08/22/2017 8:30:53 PM PDT by Innovative
President Trump on Tuesday all but promised to pardon Joe Arpaio, the hard-line former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., who became a national symbol of the campaign against undocumented immigrants, and whose round-’em-up raids have landed him in legal trouble. “I’ll make a prediction — I think he is going to be just fine,” an angry and defiant Mr. Trump told a campaign-style forum in Phoenix where he abandoned scripted remarks and launched into a half-hour tirade against the news media. “But I won’t do it tonight because I don’t want to cause any controversy.”
“But Sheriff Joe can feel good,” Mr. Trump added.
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WONDERFUL!!! Sheriff Joe should be able to retire in peace and reflect on a career of serving the people better than most in recent history.
Arpaio should have never been charge in the first place. It was because he was now bowing down to the Kenyan
I think there is another reason for not making the pardon. Is the case not still in the courts?
That is, might the matter not be resolved by being dropped or over ruled or some such at a higher level?
I got the impression that Trump's crowd could have made the protestors flee in terror if they but turned in their direction. I think the police were trying to err on the side of caution, but there was no threat of any serious violence to anyone but the obnoxious protestors, and that would have been just fine with me.
Exactly. If Arpaio accepts a pardon it is considered an admission of guilt. He would lose the right to appeal the verdict.
If there were ever a justified pardon...this would be it. A life long law man who stood for law and order. Sheriff Joe’s a good man.
"Mr. Trump"
The fake news NY slimes can't show him the respect of the office.
And from the enemy:
Arpaio Pardon Would Show Contempt for Constitution
And there would be only one remedy for Trump’s disrespect: impeachment.
“...if for no other reason, than to spit in the face of the communist Left...”
The reason is two-fold...
Sheriff Arpaio is a PATRIOT American, upholding the law and is innocent of any wrongdoing.
AND...yes... “to spit in the face of the communist Left...”
That’s NEVER a bad thing.
Disobeying an Obama law is an act of Patriotism, and a moral imperative.
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