Jeff Sessions Subpoenaed In Trial of Trump Soul Mate Joe Arpaio
Source: The Daily Beast
After Trump’s election sidekick ignored a civil contempt ruling, the Justice Department charged him with criminal contempt. So he’s calling Jeff Sessions as a defense witness.
MICHAEL DALY
06.12.17 1:00 AM ET
Along with testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee this week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions can expect a subpoena from lawyers for a former Arizona lawman who has been called Donald Trump’s political soul mate.
The soul mate is 84-year-old former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was Trump’s sidekick in championing the birther nonsense about President Obama and in raising the specter of criminals and rapists pouring across our southern border.
Arpaio is presently being prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly violating a federal judge’s order to cease immigration enforcement such as the Trump administration is now pressing sanctuary cities to conduct, or else.
The Arizona U.S. attorney’s office had long worked with Arpaio as it would any local law enforcement official and recused itself. The case went to the Public Integrity Section of the criminal division of the main U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.
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