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Originally Posted by kmanrox
Personally I think Trump should have let Arprio go to court where he probably would not have gotten jail time. This way Trump's detractors can't cry 'racist'.
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Trump obstructed justice by pardoning Arprio before he was sentenced. The judicial branch of government was obstructed by Trump's premature executive branch pardon.
An unforgiveable pardon for Sheriff Joe
"Mr Trump and his cheerleaders have a different explanation for Sheriff Joe?s pardon. The authoritarian showman is being pardoned, the president has signalled, because he did nothing wrong in the eyes of ?patriots? who know how police powers should really be used. That is not an act of grace. It is an act of nullification by stealth: the highest office-holder in the land saying that legal checks and balances are so much politically correct nonsense."
"In 2011 Mr Arpaio assigned a five-member ?cold-case posse?, financed by conservatives across the country, to investigate whether Barack Obama had faked evidence of his birth in America (the sheriff argued that Mr Obama had indeed faked his birth certificate, making him an early ally of Mr Trump, who used the racially charged ?birther? conspiracy to launch his own career in nativist politics)."