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August 15, 2017

Trump Says He's Considering Pardoning Notorious Racist AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio
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President Trump says he's considering pardoning the notorious former
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has been convicted of criminal contempt
for defying a court order to stop his deputies from racially profiling
people and then detaining them on suspicion of being undocumented. Trump
called Arpaio a "great American patriot" and said he's considering
pardoning Arpaio as early as this week. Arpaio is a major supporter of
Trump whose policies have included detaining immigrants in a scorching
outdoor tent city jail, which Arpaio once referred to as his own
"concentration camp."


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