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President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned former sheriff Joe Arpaio, the retired Arizona lawman who was convicted for intentionally disobeying a judge's order in an immigration case. The White House said the 85-year-old ex-sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County was a "worthy candidate" for a presidential pardon.
President Donald Trump spared his ally former Sheriff Joe Arpaio a possible jail sentence on Friday by pardoning his conviction, reversing what critics saw as a long-awaited comeuppance for a lawman who escaped accountability for headline-grabbing tactics during most of his 24 years as metropolitan Phoenix's top law enforcer. "Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," the White House statement said.
In this Jan. 26, 2016 file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of metro Phoenix, at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa. Trump made the controversial move of pardoning Arpaio on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017.
Experts at credit rating agencies are watching Washington's political squabbling over budgets and spending closely, and they might make another cut in the U.S. credit rating if the Republican-controlled White House, Senate and House cannot reach an agreement. President Donald Trump has promised to build a massive wall along the southern U.S. border in a bid to stop illegal immigration.
Officials at The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights , have angrily denounced reports that aides for President Donald Trump are urging him to protect the more than 800,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation but in exchange ask from Congress funding toward mass deportations. The plan, CHIRLA officials said Tuesday, would hold DACA recipients, known as "DREAMERS," as hostages to fund "a mass deportation machine" and expand a white supremacist agenda.
At the end of last year's presidential campaign, a sufficient number of voters in just the right places elected Donald Trump to go shoot up Washington and fundamentally change the way it operates. In fact, 30 weeks after he took office Trump is still shooting wild words and tweets at most anyone who criticizes him, hints at criticizing him or just moves.
The conflict between President Donald Trump and Congress escalated a day after he threatened to shut down the federal government over funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall and targeted opponents in Congress, aggravating tensions as a difficult legislative agenda looms. Trump is now at odds not only with Democrats, who cemented their objections to funding the wall Wednesday, but also with Republicans, who must reconcile his brash rhetoric with the governing realities of Congress.
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio arrives at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 21, 2016. Arpaio was convicted in July 2017 of criminal contempt of court charges for violating an order that he refrain from detaining illegal immigrants; President Donald Trump has hinted that he will pardon Arpaio.
Senator David Perdue: "The American people elected President Trump because he shares our sense of urgency in securing our border to protect our country. After years of careless immigration policies and leaders who have turned a blind eye to the chaos at our southern border, it's reassuring we now have a President who treats illegal immigration like the national security crisis that it is.
U.S. President Donald Trump hinted on Tuesday that he would issue a pardon for Joe Arpaio, a controversial former sheriff convicted last month of criminal contempt in a racial profiling case. Trump, who had already held out the possibility of a pardon for Arpaio, decided against announcing it at a major rally in Arizona on Tuesday night but suggested that he would step in at some point.
U.S. President Donald Trump revved up supporters on Tuesday with a defense of his response to a white supremacist-organized rally in Virginia and a promise to shut down the U.S. government if necessary to build a wall along the border with Mexico. Under fire for saying "both sides" were to blame for the violence between white supremacists and left-wing counter protesters in Virginia on Aug. 12, Trump accused television networks of ignoring his calls for unity in the aftermath.
Health-care reform is dying. Every time the White House announces a new Infrastructure Week, Trump gets bored by mid-morning on the first day and goes to Twitter to churn the political-media cesspit.
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., August 22, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts Protesters leave the scene after Phoenix police used tear gas outside the Phoenix Convention Center, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017, in Phoenix.
On Tuesday, President Trump will visit a state he loves to make waves in for exactly the kind of events he loves to make waves at: a border tour and campaign-style rally in Arizona. For Trump, it's a precarious moment.
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"Do people in this room like Sheriff Joe? . . . I'll make a prediction: I think he's going to be just fine, OK?" "He has done a lot in the fight against illegal immigration.
The nation's political split over President Donald Trump is expected to be on full display Tuesday as hard-core backers of the Republican president flood into the Phoenix Convention Center and police brace for protests from opponents outside. The rally organized by the Trump campaign will also be a test of the president's support among his base and elected Arizona Republicans, some of whom won't show up because of the possible damage he can do to their own political standing.
Here's why you can't ignore violent right-wing extremists when it comes to domestic terrorist attacks. Eight years ago, I warned of a singular threat - the resurgence of right-wing extremist activity and associated violence in the United States as a result of the 2008 presidential election, the financial crisis and the stock market crash.