Current Events > Trump pardons Arpaio

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Antifar posted...

EternalDivide posted...

lol CNN is honestly more pissed about this happening before the hurricane hitting than anything else. Because they'll be forced to cover that rather than their typical circle jerk over everything Trump.

It's a deliberate tactic for Trump to announce this on a Friday evening as a hurricane nears landfall.

I mean this is nothing new. Presidents have been have been doing Friday evening dumps for a long time.
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Yea. You should be upset he timed this the way he did in an attempt to sweep it under the rug. So much for accountability.

Gojak_v3 posted...

Antifar posted...

EternalDivide posted...

lol CNN is honestly more pissed about this happening before the hurricane hitting than anything else. Because they'll be forced to cover that rather than their typical circle jerk over everything Trump.

It's a deliberate tactic for Trump to announce this on a Friday evening as a hurricane nears landfall.

I mean this is nothing new. Presidents have been have been doing Friday evening dumps for a long time.

Yeah, it is pretty typical for presidents to time controversial moves to coincide with major natural disasters.
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TheVipaGTS posted...

Yea. You should be upset he timed this the way he did in an attempt to sweep it under the rug. So much for accountability.

God I love this fake outrage. These Friday dumps of news have been done forever.
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Okay. Stuff like this doesn't bother me as it's what I expect from Trump.
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Because he's the first president ever to do a news dump on a Friday night right. This has never happened before right.
And yeah, where was all this outrage over that actual traitor Manning being pardoned?
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Gojak_v3 posted...

God I love this fake outrage. These Friday dumps of news have been done forever.

Does that make it good? A whole lot of things have "been done forever" which are, nonetheless, bad.
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it all comes tumbling down tumbling down tumbling down
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Yeah, it is pretty typical for presidents to time controversial moves to coincide with major natural disasters.

Late afternoon Friday dumps have always been controversial. The hurricane really plays no part here, cause like I said this is par for the course.
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There's a pretty big difference between a "Friday news dump" and a "Friday news dump while part of the US is being obliterated by a hurricane".

Go back to deeding, Gojak.
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Gojak_v3 posted...

TheVipaGTS posted...

Yea. You should be upset he timed this the way he did in an attempt to sweep it under the rug. So much for accountability.

God I love this fake outrage. These Friday dumps of news have been done forever.

But Trumps not just another politician!!!!!
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Bullet_Wing posted...

What a fucking night. Let's recap

-Trump pardons a racist piece of shit

-White supremacist resigns from White House complaining that MAGA has been derailed

-Harvey turns Cat 4

-NK tests missles

-Border patrol set to check evacuees

Celebrity APresident just gets better and better

Pre ordered the Blu Ray steelbook earlier.
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what did Arpaio do exactly? I really have no idea what's going on
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Republicans don't care about law and order when it comes to rich white people. This is nothing new.
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smh gojack supports a racist smh nice teeth smh
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Antifar posted...

Gojak_v3 posted...

God I love this fake outrage. These Friday dumps of news have been done forever.

Does that make it good? A whole lot of things have "been done forever" which are, nonetheless, bad.

I'm saying take issue with the act if you want. As for the timing this is nothing unusual.
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Gojak_v3 posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Yeah, it is pretty typical for presidents to time controversial moves to coincide with major natural disasters.

Late afternoon Friday dumps have always been controversial. The hurricane really plays no part here, cause like I said this is par for the course.

Except this has been a possibility for weeks and could have been done any of the last few Fridays. The fact it's THIS one is absolutely relevant.
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lol people responding to gojak
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CEs_EFG posted...

what did Arpaio do exactly? I really have no idea what's going on

https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/five-reasons-racist-sheriff-joe-arpaio-should-not-receive-presidential-pardon

He's a legitimate piece of shit.
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CEs_EFG posted...

what did Arpaio do exactly?

Racially profile Hispanics, detaining them based on nothing in a putative effort to catch illegal immigrants, get told not to do that by a court, continue doing that in violation of court orders.

Also a shit ton of mistreating inmates.
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Good, the guy was just actively protecting America.
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https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/225620165138726912
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FrisbeeDude posted...

The attack ads during the primaries against the trump administration and anyone who supports him are gonna be glorious. There's SO much material to work with.

Hardly.
The Church of Trumpism dont exactly care about anything bad Trump does.

Better off attacking all the lies with charts taking down the ludricous claims he has as accomplishments. For example the lie he is the reason the stock market is up.

It would be a mistake to use the clinton campaign strategy of attacking how he hurt feelings.

Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/225620165138726912

Lol an actual tweet from the president of the United States of America. This country is doomed

Also I guess that answers why he would bother pardoning him since Trump was behind the birther shit in the first place

Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/225620165138726912

Lmfao
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they denied his constitutional right to a jury trial so I don't mind the pardon tbh
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Axiom posted...

Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/225620165138726912

Lol an actual tweet from the president of the United States of America. This country is doomed

Also I guess that answers why he would bother pardoning him since Trump was behind the birther shit in the first place

And people still support that idiot. Not surprising that most who do act like 5 year olds. Much like he does.

Antifar posted...

CEs_EFG posted...

what did Arpaio do exactly?

Racially profile Hispanics, detaining them based on nothing in a putative effort to catch illegal immigrants, get told not to do that by a court, continue doing that in violation of court orders.

Also a shit ton of mistreating inmates.

And like...more, like deliberately not investigating sex crimes, violating election law, abuse of power, it's fucking crazy.
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Axiom posted...

Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/225620165138726912

Lol an actual tweet from the president of the United States of America. This country is doomed

Also I guess that answers why he would bother pardoning him since Trump was behind the birther shit in the first place

Well, that tweet was in 2012.
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BignutzisBack posted...

they denied his constitutional right to a jury trial so I don't mind the pardon tbh

2 wrongs make a right when it comes to racists.
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Antifar posted...

CEs_EFG posted...

what did Arpaio do exactly?

Racially profile Hispanics, detaining them based on nothing in a putative effort to catch illegal immigrants, get told not to do that by a court, continue doing that in violation of court orders.

Also a shit ton of mistreating inmates.

Proof?
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Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/225620165138726912

Holytaco's comment is on point
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Bio1590 posted...

Antifar posted...

CEs_EFG posted...

what did Arpaio do exactly?

Racially profile Hispanics, detaining them based on nothing in a putative effort to catch illegal immigrants, get told not to do that by a court, continue doing that in violation of court orders.

Also a shit ton of mistreating inmates.

And like...more, like deliberately not investigating sex crimes, violating election law, abuse of power, it's fucking crazy.

Yep. He was corrupt and pure garbage just like that sheriff republicans love who had a prisoner die of dehydration. GOP sure do love their abusive sheriffs

Bishop9800 posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

A giant orange middle finger to the entire justice system.

Lmao
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I don't care that he went to extremes, illegal immigration is bullshit and only brings poverty and crime.

People who hate the guy are privileged whites in gated communities that don't have to deal with illegals.
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SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Proof?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/us/sheriff-joe-arpaio-convicted-arizona.html

Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio committed a crime by defying a court order to stop detaining suspected undocumented immigrants, a judge ruled on Monday, in the latest rebuke for a once-popular politician who was voted out of office last year.

United States District Judge Susan R. Bolton found Mr. Arpaio, 85, guilty of criminal contempt of court, a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail. Mr. Arpaio’s lawyers said he would appeal.

The conviction comes as sheriffs are under pressure to play a major role in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The president has threatened to withhold federal funds from local governments that do not cooperate by holding jail inmates for deportation, and immigrant advocates have pushed back with lawsuits charging that such detentions violate constitutional rights.

Mr. Arpaio served for 24 years as sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., which includes Phoenix, building a national reputation for harsh conditions in his county jail, and for his campaign against undocumented immigrants. The criminal charge grew out of a lawsuit filed a decade ago charging that the sheriff’s office regularly violated the rights of Latinos, stopping people based on racial profiling, detaining them based solely on the suspicion that they were in the country illegally, and turning them over to the immigration authorities.

Hearing the suit, another federal district judge, G. Murray Snow, ordered the sheriff in 2011 to halt detention based solely on suspicion of a person’s immigration status, when there was no evidence that a state law had been broken. An appeals court upheld that ruling, and Judge Snow later reinforced it with other orders.

But Mr. Arpaio insisted, publicly and repeatedly, that his office’s practices were legal and would not change, and advocates said the detentions continued.

On Monday, Judge Bolton ruled that Mr. Arpaio had willfully violated the 2011 court order. “Not only did Defendant abdicate responsibility, he announced to the world and to his subordinates that he was going to continue business as usual no matter who said otherwise,” she wrote.

Cecillia Wang, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union and one of the lawyers in the suit against Mr. Arpaio , said the verdict “is a vindication for all the victims of his illegal stops and detentions whose constitutional rights were violated.”

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Nepsy posted...

I don't care that he went to extremes, illegal immigration is bullshit and only brings poverty and crime.

People who hate the guy are privileged whites in gated communities that don't have to deal with illegals.

We don't need anecdotes from a racist.
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Shut up kid^
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Webmaster4531 posted...

Nepsy posted...

I don't care that he went to extremes, illegal immigration is bullshit and only brings poverty and crime.

People who hate the guy are privileged whites in gated communities that don't have to deal with illegals.

We don't need anecdotes from a racist.

Ad hominem.
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Nepsy posted...

People who hate the guy are privileged whites in gated communities that don't have to deal with illegals.

Half of Arizonans oppose his pardon
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2017/08/21/poll-arizonans-oppose-sheriff-joe-arpaio-pardon-president-donald-trump-phoenix-rally/586957001/
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"Nobody's going to be tougher on crime than me."

"Nah not you buddy, you're free to go."
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Bullet_Wing posted...

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Antifar posted...

CEs_EFG posted...

what did Arpaio do exactly?

Racially profile Hispanics, detaining them based on nothing in a putative effort to catch illegal immigrants, get told not to do that by a court, continue doing that in violation of court orders.

Also a shit ton of mistreating inmates.

Proof?

Do you understand that when you receive a pardon, it's a legal admission of guilt? Arpaio is going to get absolutely fucked with civil suits

Ok then what?

Fucking shitbag is older than dinosaurs and has no money
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Redhats would defend him if he pardoned a lynch mob, they have no excuses, "lib tears" is their sole motivation.
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Bullet_Wing posted...

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Antifar posted...

CEs_EFG posted...

what did Arpaio do exactly?

Racially profile Hispanics, detaining them based on nothing in a putative effort to catch illegal immigrants, get told not to do that by a court, continue doing that in violation of court orders.

Also a shit ton of mistreating inmates.

Proof?

Do you understand that when you receive a pardon, it's a legal admission of guilt? Arpaio is going to get absolutely fucked with civil suits

We'll have to see what happens. I'm sure he talked with Trump himself or certainly had contact with his administration.

He didn't have to accept the pardon. I'm sure he's well aware of the potential circumstances.
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Literally not since the Civil War have pardons been used to circumvent the judicial system.

Trump is probably trying to distract from the subpoenas Mueller served.
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Obama pardoned drug dealers
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https://www.propublica.org/article/the-joe-arpaio-i-knew

First elected in 1992 as a tough-on-crime reformer, Arpaio built his reputation on disregard for inmates. Faced with overcrowded cells, he erected the infamous “tent city,” an outdoor jail that held the convicts in U.S. Army tents from the Korean War. During Arizona summers, temperatures sweltered well above 110 degrees in the tents. Inmates were caught stealing underwear, so Arpaio had all jail underwear dyed pink in the belief that would end the black-market for briefs. Or that’s what he told the press, which produced scores of stories about the sheriff and his endeavors.

He’d been uninterested in undocumented immigrants until 2006, when he seized on rising public anger over the issue, both locally and nationally. Once Arpaio was in the battle, he was all-in. Collateral damage accumulated quickly. By 2008, numerous U.S. citizens had been wrongly arrested by Maricopa County deputies, and several filed a federal lawsuit accusing the sheriff’s office of racial profiling.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/blogs/joe-arpaio-tent-city-a-concentration-camp-6500984

Responding to some crackpot from the audience who wonders when Joe'll start using concentration camps, Arpaio gives the following response.

"I already have a concentration camp," he snarks around 2:52 in, with nativist GOP politicians Don Goldwater and then Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas chortling along. "Andy, you gonna cover me on this, too? It's called Tent City."

https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/901240111920295939
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NurseRedHeart posted...

Obama pardoned drug dealers

Victimless crime
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