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President Donald Trump spared former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio the prospect of serving jail time in granting the first pardon of his turbulent tenure, wiping away the lawman's recent federal conviction stemming from his immigration patrols that focused on Latinos. The White House said 85-year-old Arpaio was a "worthy candidate" for the pardon, citing his "life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration."
In his first act of presidential clemency, Trump pardoned the deeply-divisive 85-year-old who ignored a federal court order that he stop detaining illegal migrants. "He kept Arizona safe!" Trump tweeted, calling Arpaio a "patriot."
One of the more curious trends of the 2016 election campaign was the tendency among many young libertarians to jump onto the Donald Trump bandwagon. As Salon's Heather Digby Parton recently discussed , some more conscientious libertarians have begun to confront this problem directly.
Politics is supposed to be the art of the possible, whereby politicians negotiate the issues of the day and arrive at compromises. Neither party gets all that they want, but each gets something.
Courtnay Hough protests in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. August 25, 2017, after former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio was pardoned by U.S. President Trump. President Donald Trump spared former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio the prospect of serving jail time in granting the first pardon of his turbulent tenure, wiping away the lawman's recent federal conviction stemming from his immigration patrols that focused on Latinos.
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. President Donald Trump has pardoned former sheriff Joe Arpaio following his conviction for intentionally disobeying a judge's order in an immigration case.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California has returned from Europe with a plan to brief President Trump on a meeting with WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange that he says touched on information disproving RussiaA s role hacking Democratic emails. The Orange County Republican visited Assange inside EcuadorA s London embassy last week and told the Washington Examiner on Thursday, shortly after his return, that "I would not talk on the telephone" with the president about the three-hour conversation.
The Republican National Committee on Friday approved a resolution condemning racism and white supremacy at its summer meeting in Nashville - but don't call it a rebuke of President Donald Trump. "This has nothing to do with the president," said the resolution's sponsor, Bill Palatucci, an RNC committeeman from New Jersey.
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. FILE - 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.
Jay Town, the new U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, told WHNT News 19 Friday that his office will increase cooperation with local law enforcement and aggressively pursue prosecution of violent crimes. "So the Department has its priorities: guns, drugs, bad guys, violent crime, opioids," Town said.
President Trump is exempting Citgo Petroleum Corp., owned by Venezuela's government, from the financial sanctions imposed Friday on the country. The latest set of sanctions is meant to punish the government of President NicolA s Maduro as it moves to rewrite the country's constitution and consolidate his power.To that end, the sanctions seek to exclude the Venezuelan government from the United States' economy, including its markets and capital, and to make sure the U.S. does not assist the Maduro government.
President Trump "escalated his attacks on congressional Republicans on Friday, targeting Sen. Bob Corker , a frequent ally who was also among the most vocal critics of the president's remarks in response to the violence two weeks ago in Charlottesville," the New York Times reports. "The president's early-morning tweet appeared to suggest that Mr. Corker was in political trouble in his home state."
Trump attacks Corker: 'Tennessee not happy' with GOP senator - President Trump on Friday fired back at Republican Sen. Bob Corker - (Tenn.), tweeting that Corker has privately asked the president whether he should run for reelection. - Trump was responding to Corker's remarks last week
The Republican National Committee walked the tightrope Friday in carefully but resolutely denouncing white supremacist groups without criticizing President Donald Trump, who waffled in his own statements in the wake of the deadly clash in Virginia this month. Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, the RNC approved a raft of resolutions, including one asserting "Nazis, the KKK, white supremacists and others are repulsive, evil and have no fruitful place in the United States."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., posted a Facebook photo of himself, holding a pair of eclipse glasses, and Mnuchin at the U.S. Bullion Repository In this Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, file photo, then Treasury Secretary-designate Stephen Mnuchin and his then-fiancee, Louise Linton, arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington, for the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump. Linton responded to a social media critic on Aug. 21, 2017, telling the mother of three that that she was "adorably out of touch."
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont inspired millions of loyal supporters, some of whom chose not to support Hillary Clinton in the general election in 2016. Fully 12 percent of people who voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries voted for President Trump in the general election.
President Donald Trump's latest threat to shut the government is just the most recent indication that he is unfit and unprepared for the office. The notion that the president of the United States would purposefully imperil services to taxpayers if Congress doesn't approve $1.6 billion for his Mexico border wall would be far-fetched, if a credible person occupied the White House.
Vice President Mike Pence, left, talks to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin accompanied by his fiancA e Scottish actress Louise Linton after he was sworn-in Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. CREDIT: AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Earlier this week, Louise Linton, the wife of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin posted an Instagram picture of her walking off a government plane, individually tagging every high fashion designer she was wearing and hashtagging her #hermesscarf.
Fanning the flames of GOP discord, President Donald Trump is accusing Republican congressional leaders of botching efforts to avoid an unprecedented default on the national debt. "Could have been so easy-now a mess!" Trump tweeted.