WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump has pardoned a controversial former sheriff who was convicted of a crime connected to the racial profiling of Latinos in Arizona.
Joe Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt in Arizona for his continuous racial profiling of Latinos. He faced a possible jail term in an upcoming sentencing hearing. He was not re-elected in the latest election in Maricopa county, Arizona.
However, his steadfast support of Donald Trump paid off, when the President delivered a pardon this weekend.
“I am pleased to inform you that I have just granted a full Pardon to 85 year old American patriot Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He kept Arizona safe!” President Trump proclaimed Friday.
In response, Arpaio thanked President Trump “for seeing my conviction for what it is: a political witch hunt by holdovers in the Obama justice department! I am humbled and incredibly grateful to President Trump. I look fwd to putting this chapter behind me and helping to #MAGA.”
Trump’s pardon brought about a stiff reaction. The ACLU said immediately afterward that “Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt of court for deliberately violating federal court orders, after violating the constitutional rights of people of color in his community. Trump’s pardon condones racial profiling and a sheriff who defied the rule of law. You can bet Trump will be seeing us in court very soon.”
Even members of his own party in Arizona weren’t happy with the pardon.
UPI/Kevin Dietsch
U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released the following statement on the pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio:
“No one is above the law and the individuals entrusted with the privilege of being sworn law officers should always seek to be beyond reproach in their commitment to fairly enforcing the laws they swore to uphold. Mr. Arpaio was found guilty of criminal contempt for continuing to illegally profile Latinos living in Arizona based on their perceived immigration status in violation of a judge’s orders. The President has the authority to make this pardon, but doing so at this time undermines his claim for the respect of rule of law as Mr. Arpaio has shown no remorse for his actions.”
I am pleased to inform you that I have just granted a full Pardon to 85 year old American patriot Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He kept Arizona safe!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 26, 2017
Nice thing about Trump and the Republicans are their conservative values that lift people up as opposed to the Democrats that are full of hate that kills hope and brings the whole country down.
Like someone said, left wingnuts are going the wrong direction while the right wingnuts are positive and taking the country in the direction of freedom and prosperity for hard working Americans.
Rep. Duncan Hunter – US House of Representatives (Republican representing San Diego County, CA.) on Donald Trump.
“He’s just like he is on TV,” Rep. Duncan Hunter told the group, “He’s an asshole, but he’s our asshole.”
Oh and by the way, Hunter is currently under criminal investigation for campaign finance violations.
Just got to just love those Republican “law and order” and “family value” types. 🙂
There’s no defense for supporting Trump.
What is it about these right wing nutters?
Their main defense is it’s OK that I do things I know to be wrong because others have as well.
That didn’t even work in grade school.
Everything wrong is about someone else, this clown takes no responsibility for his own behavior.
Good on President Trump! I love Sheriff Joe.
Trump defended his controversial pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio on Monday, saying his decision to announce it during Hurricane Harvey likely earned it “far higher” ratings.
“Actually in the middle of a hurricane, even though it was a Friday evening, I assumed the ratings would be far higher than they would be normally,” he said.
Ratings? Are you kidding me?
One of the worst natural disasters in recent history and this ass-clown is worried about ratings.
How in the hell can some of you people keep defending this joke of a President?
Where have you been. Dumping news on a Friday night has been ongoing for a long time. With this president, it doesn’t matter what he says, when he says it, and how he says it, how often he says it, how loud he says it, who he’s with when he says it, what time of day it is, where he is at when he says it, etc…. because the trump haters will always find fault.
Sounds like you are describing Obama haters.
Ya right Carly, dumping news on a Friday night at the beginning of a major natural US disaster was done all the time.
And then to comment about he hoped that it would get “higher ratings” that way.
No need to “find fault” with Trump, Carly as he creates the vast majority of it all on his own.
Trump was correct about one thing, when he said that he could shoot someone and people like you and your ilk will still defend him.
Let me ask you a question, is there anything that Trump would do that would make you oppose him?
Or would you follow him off of a cliff like a good little lemming.
No in answer to your question about jumping off a cliff. Yes i would oppose trump if he did something I disagreed with. Look back through history and you will see that there is a precedent for Friday night news dump.
Carly, that is not the point. Trump did the pardon to get ratings-to make himself look good and to hopefully gain a few more supporters. His ego says “I need to make myself look good. Maybe I should have pardoned him at a different time.” He is so self-absorbed with his own ‘greatness’ that the only thing that matters to him is public perception. And you supporters say he is not like other politicians. He is the ultimate politician.
Trump defended his controversial pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio on Monday, saying his decision to announce it during Hurricane Harvey likely earned it “far higher” ratings.
“Actually in the middle of a hurricane, even though it was a Friday evening, I assumed the ratings would be far higher than they would be normally,” he said.
Ratings? Are you freakin’ kidding me?
One of the worst natural disasters in recent history and this ass-clown is worried about ratings.
How in the hell can some of you people keep defending this freakin’ joke of a President
Bullshit article – nothing racial – just doing his job Obummer would’nt do. – 98 % were illegals from Mexico – so who would you ask for ID – the Mex or the Mus – neither 1 if you were a democrap.
^^
Bullshit comment. Only 10% of thsoe stopped were illegal.
You are very lucky that you can’t be pulled over and stopped for being incredibly stupid.
You’d never make it more than one block at a time.
Do you live in AZ?
I do and can tell the difference.
The dodge mini vans are all over the midwest…….enjoy
Sheriff Joe was upholding the law.
Then came along a the President and his gang and told the Sheriff not to uphold the law.
Sheriff Joe didn’t agree with the President and his gang and continued to uphold the law.
Then the President and his gang filed charges of “contempt” in one of the liberal “Kangaroo Courts” they lined up.
Bingo! Sheriff Joe is guilty of contempt.
Along comes a new “law and order” President and he pardons Sheriff Joe because he was upholding the law for all Americans.
Now Sheriff Joe is a hero and the President is happy because America is happy because American is now being protected.
All’s well that ends well.
Watchdog, you should really consider doing stand-up comedy, you’re hilarious.
Anon – I guess you do not know the difference between a US citizen and an ILLEGAL immigrant – OLD JOE DOES !
Sounds like my dad in the Korean war – jeez! All these people shooting at me – oh my! oh my! How do I know who my enemy is ? Just luckily he was a republican and had what is Known as common sense – He’s old now -but still alive and says the socialist propaganda (commy) is a repeat by the demorat party today only local – PS Tokeyo Rose could have take lessons from your corrupt anti American democrap organization (party of corruption) Stupid is as stupid does .
If you Trump haters were an animal the animal kingdom would have disposed of you long ago. Natures way. Now complain about that.
When one law is broken (illegal entrance to this country) in mass amounts, you better begin a process bordering, infringing, etc on the edge of ‘legality’ to control it or you will no longer have the Constitution that protects you idiots from complaining about it. Are you sure you are American citizens? By the way, quit biting the hand that is feeding you more and more, you idiots.
This country would be sittin’ a whole lot better, if we had a “Sherriff Joe” in every corner of the country.
Trump Sucks.
why, because he wants to take away all your entitlements? Sorry you will miss your free-bees, now go become a productive member of society
Richard is the one who really SUCKS!
Since when did MEXICAN become a race.
BTW, I live in Phx and voted for Joe.
“Look, you knew I was never going to get Mexico to pay for the wall, so instead I pardoned a guy who devoted his department’s resources to harassing US citizens just cause they look messican. That should be good enough to keep you yokels cheering for me, am I right? And hey Flynn, Manfort, Page and all my other cronies, this is just to show you. Cover for me, lie for me, obstruct justice for me, take the fall for me and I’ll issue a pardon and make it go away.”
– Donald Trump
There is a reason why law enforcement racially profile, because it works. Why was nobody in an uproar when Obama was pardoning and commuting sentences of drug dealers?
How about Chelsea manning? There is no comparison between crimes. Where was the outrage then?
Carly, you are a typical Trump supporter with your “whataboutism”.
I was against Obama commuting Manning & there was plenty of outrage then. And I object now to Arpaio being pardoned.
Note, Manning’s sentence was not a pardon as Manning had served over 6 years in prison while Arpaio was pardoned even before he was sentenced. Arpaio’s pardon was completely against every legal protocol for Presidential pardons.
Hey Carly, the truth is that “America’s toughest sheriff,” as Arpaio liked to call himself, was an incompetent buffoon, a sour mash of cruelty and inattention that cost his county hundreds of millions of dollars in fines, fees and legal settlements.
When I hear “what about…” when someone questions what the President is doing, my response is “What about it?” I won’t argue the truth or fiction part of the statement because that is fruitless, but tell me “what makes you think that what someone else did has any bearing on what happened here?” Would you go for that defense if it were your kid involved? If he said Billy next door didn’t get grounded for stealing his mom’s car so I shouldn’t either, you’d go along with that? That excuse is what children use. Trump’s an adult – sometimes.
And you’re a left wing loon. All times.
Because you weren’t bitching then so why are you bitching now? Dah! You can hate the person, but can’t hate what he is doing to make America Great Again unless you are a traitor.
Pardon me for my mistake. You are right, his sentence was commuted. You are wrong about your assumption that “I am a typical trump supporter. I am just a proud American citizen who likes to look at both side of a situation and make an informed decision. We have elections here and if you are not satisfied with the outcome you wait and vote in the next election. It is sad to see that we have changed into a society of people who have no respect for the presidency… no matter who is in there. It’s too bad that there are a few people who post on this site that like to call people names and make derogatory comments.
Carly, I have always respected the President even if I disagreed with then but it seems Trump himself does not respect the office so it is hard for me the respect him. Just saying
Trump is a great President. Just because he speaks in a different style don’t mean he isn’t on the same page as the rest of America.
In my experience people talk and act much differently from the New York area than we do here in the mid-west. It took me a while to understand there direct way of talking but they are good people and they have the same values as Mid-America does.
Anyone that wants to Make America Great Again is ok by me.
Also, I agree with Carly about people doing on the trash talking. It’s a total turn off!
SUPER ! Now throw half the democrap elected officals in jail and we will call it an even trade – Too bad the Haitians are still starving to death because the corrupt demorats stole the billions of dollars in donated relief money and run it through (kept 95% for themselves and their criminal DC swamp rats) the Clinton Crime Foundation – you POS dimms are too stupid to see the truth.
Obama pardoned thousand of hardened criminals without a word from the biased media. McCain is a has been that needs to retire and go away. Sheriff Joe was convicted by a left wing judge and it was strictly political. Joe was protecting the real citizens of this country. Good job President Trump.
Obama pardoned thousand of hardened criminals without a word from the biased media. McCain is a has been that needs to retire and go away. Sheriff Joe was convicted by a left wing judge and it was strictly political. Joe was protecting the real citizens of this country. Good job President Trump.
Trump likes helping the bottom feeders like this sheriff Arpaio 85 year old stuck in the past.Why the hell is he sheriff at 85 anyway, time to read his new handbook on how to treat people now days.The problem is Americans want low wage Mexicans to work and they pay them so they also are part of problem too.They don’t all come here with drugs.Look how many people OUR PRESIDENT TRUMP has screwed over in past with his so called bankruptcy claims,he has to be the 1st Pres.to screw over so many taxpayers with his claims and business people.We are a country with No Pres.I dare anyone to come up with 10 good things he has done for our Country,Only thing he is doing is making a lot of $ at Golf Resorts he owns I’m sure he is making $of his own security people staying there.Some people won’t believe this is happening even if they see it happening.You wanted CHANGE,well you got it.
This post reeks with bias, racism, discrimination, jealousy, and hate.
There is nothing in this post believable.
McCain is RINO, Republican In Name Only. He always criticizes the president, this latest outburst means nothing. When Obama administration ordered border patrol away from the border he made identifying illegal immigrants much harder. They had a chance to hide among Hispanic-Americans. You can thank Obama for creating the situation that led to profiling. At the border everyone crossing the desert is almost certainly an illegal immigrant.
The best way to end profiling when it comes to illegal aliens is to end illegal immigration. No illegals means Hispanics can again be assumed to be Hispanic-Americans. Profiling is not very accurate. Looking at local jail inmate lists shows that. You will find many Sub Saharan Africans, Middle Easterners, Saharan Africans, Asians, and others held for ICE. I used to share this information at the IowaNews thread at Storm Front. Unfortunately Network Solutions LLC has blocked the site. It is threatening to destroy years of discussions and data. I can no longer share proof that illegal immigrants come from all over. Assumption that all illegals are Hispanic goes unchallenged now. I also shared the suffering and death of illegal immigrants to show how evil illegal immigration is. Luring people with jobs lures many to their deaths. Like the semi from Iowa where 13 died of heat stroke. That also is gone now with the end of Storm Front. I doubt anywhere else will let me publish the politically incorrect information. Corrupt employers won. Free speech and verifiable truth died Friday.
One way to eliminate ethnic profiling in news is to identify all illegal aliens as such. That way there is no question if crimes are committed by illegals, Hispanic-Americans, whites, or others. Remember that Hispanics are classified as White race, Hispanic ethnicity. Profiling can not be racial unless you accept that whites are being racially profiled. BTW Iowa jails and courts use the White classification, making it a state standard.