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Who Killed Arpaio Guilty?

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Monday morning during a press conference, President Donald Trump defended the pardoning of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio. In brief, Arpaio was initially found guilty on the charges of criminal contempt for violating court orders, despite the legal argument that he was not knowingly defying the judge’s orders. Specifically, the order to not detain any suspected undocumented immigrants. These rulings were given after a case in 2013 found him guilty of racial profiling. However, on August 25th, President Trump officially pardoned Arpaio, claiming, “Sheriff Joe is a patriot. Sheriff Joe loves our country. Sheriff Joe protected our borders. And Sheriff Joe was very unfairly treated by the Obama administration.” To support his decision, Trump said many people stood beside the pardon, though adding he expected more to show support despite of Hurricane Harvey. …show more content…

“[Arpaio] was treated unbelievably unfairly when they came down with their big decision to get him right before the election voting started, as you know. And he lost in a fairly close election, he would’ve won the election, but they just hammered him just before the election. I thought that was a very, very unfair thing to do.” In addition, Trump also cited other controversial pardonings made by other presidential administrations, including Marc Rich and Chelsea Manning. Speaking of his recent rally in Arizona, he made the claim that during his rally “...the place went absolutely crazy,” when he made reference to Arpaio. To conclude his conference, Trump reiterated the fact that Arpaio won many elections and that he should have won the last

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