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Trump asked Sessions about closing case against Arpaio, an ally since ‘birtherism’ … As Joseph Arpaio's federal case headed toward trial this past spring, President Trump wanted to act to help the former Arizona county sheriff who had become a campaign-trail companion and a partner in their crusade against illegal immigration.
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio is no conservative and no hero, no matter what President Trump says — Convicting Arpaio of contempt of court was like busting Al Capone on tax evasion. It was the tip of an iceberg of misdeeds I saw my longtime sheriff commit. — CONNECT
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House Speaker Paul Ryan Criticizes Donald Trump's Pardon for Joe Arpaio — Republican joins two GOP senators from Arizona in opposing the move — House Speaker Paul Ryan on Saturday criticized President Donald Trump for pardoning a former Arizona sheriff, Joe Arpaio, becoming the highest-ranking Republican to object to the move.
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What authoritarianism experts think of Trump's decision to pardon Joe Arpaio — On Friday night, as Hurricane Harvey was bearing down on the Texas coast, President Trump pardoned Joe Arpiao. The former Arizona sheriff had been convicted of criminal contempt for ignoring a judge's orders …
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New York Times, Impeachable Offenses?, Hullabaloo, New York Magazine, Booman Tribune, The Guardian, BuzzFeed, The Nation and CNN

Trump after pardoning Arpaio gives plug for another polarizing sheriff
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Shareblue, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and Joe.My.God.


Obama adviser: Trump asking to drop case against Arpaio could get him impeached
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Infowars, Raw Story and Business Insider

Trump Asked Top Aides Months Ago if Arpaio Case Could Be Dropped, Officials Say
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Trump's pardon of Arpaio fits a pattern: A divider, not a uniter
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Politico and FiveThirtyEight

The year I spent in Joe Arpaio's tent jail was hell. He should never walk free.
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Don Surber, Business Insider, ImmigrationProf Blog, ThinkProgress and New Yorker


‘We Are Living Through a Battle for the Soul of This Nation’ — In January of 2009, I stood waiting in Wilmington, Delaware, for a train carrying the first African American elected president of the United States. I was there to join him as vice president on the way to a historic Inauguration.


Harvey slams Texas: Rescue operations underway as historic flooding hits Houston area — Houston is being inundated with flooding of historic proportions after the ferocious Hurricane Harvey set in over the Texas Gulf Coast this weekend, dumping torrential rain on the city with no end in sight for days.
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First Cohn, now Tillerson, turn on Trump — Asked by Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace about President Trump's values, Secretary of State Tillerson said, “the president speaks for himself.” Wallace followed up by asking Tillerson if he was separating himself from Trump's values …
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Behold Our ‘Child King’ — REPUBLICAN lawmakers have seen the Trump disaster coming for a while now. They simply have no clue what to do about it. — A couple of months ago — before we learned that Donald Trump Jr. wanted to spend quality time with people he believed represented the Russian government …
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What if Trump ditched the GOP?
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ICE Left 50 Immigrant Women And Kids Stranded At A Bus Station Before Hurricane Harvey Struck — The bus depot had been closed due to the approaching storm. — Federal immigration authorities left about 50 immigrant women and children, most of them asylum-seekers from Central America …
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ImmigrationProf Blog and Lawyers, Guns & Money


Zinke's veteran daughter excoriates Trump in response to transgender military ban — The daughter of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, like her father a Navy veteran, appears, in the rawest of terms, to have excoriated President Donald Trump in a social media post after the announcement …
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The Hill, Raw Story and Political Wire


Two Men Arrested in Connection With Charlottesville Violence — The police arrested two men, including a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and were seeking a third in connection with violent episodes that took place at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., this month …


EXCLUSIVE-'Like the Last Scene of Star Wars': Sebastian Gorka Compares Battle Against Globalist Cabal to Rebel Alliance Fighting Evil Empire — Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a now former Deputy Assistant to President Donald J. Trump, says that the West Wing Democrats, the left, and the Fake News Industrial Complex …
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Exclusive — Low Level White House Staffer Inflates Credentials to Lie About Dr. Sebastian Gorka's Resignation to Press
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Gorka says he's heading back to Breitbart
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The Trouble With Ivanka's Business Partner — His vendors call him a “career grifter.” His father's creditors claim he's a fraud and a serial extortionist who shakes people down with trumped-up threats of criminal charges. With these and other allegations piling up in court records along with judgments …
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