Trump 'seriously considering' a pardon for ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio...

[HipChick]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/president-trump-considering-arpaio-pardon


President Donald Trump said Sunday that he was considering pardoning former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of criminal contempt of court in July.

“I am seriously considering a pardon for Sheriff Arpaio,” Trump told Fox News on Sunday in an interview from his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club. “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.”

Arpaio, who lost a re-election bid after 24 years in office last November, was convicted on July 31 of criminal contempt of court for refusing to follow a judges’ orders to stop his practice of racially profiling individuals for traffic stops and detention who law enforcement officials believed could be undocumented immigrants.

Arpaio said last week that he was “not going to ask him,” about a pardon, referring to Trump, but that “many, many people around the country are saying, ‘Trump should pardon.’”

[gratuitous]

1. Arpaio made sure to tell a reporter he wasn't going to ask for a pardon

*Wink, wink*

Message apparently received.

[dalton99a]

2. Shocking

[C_U_L8R]

3. Because nothing says "I'm against racism"

better than granting a sweet pardon for your racist pal. #trumpworld

[Hortensis]

4. Lol. Was this before or after Rump accused all America of being just as bad

as malignant racist groups? Could be wrong, but pardoning Arpaio may have become a more impolitic move than Rump and his deplorables imagined a couple days ago.

[emulatorloo]

5. Birther-in-Cheif to pardon Arpaio? I am so SHOCKED!

[procon]

6. He's an idiot!

If he does, considering recent events the link him with white supremacists, he might as well disembowel himself and commit suicide, live on Fox and Friends.