Coming from anybody but Donald Trump, the pardon issued to rogue cop Joe Arpaio would be shocking. Yet President Trump has had nothing but praise for “Sheriff Joe,” who joined him in a racist, crackpot attempt to prove that President Obama had forged his birth certificate. Trump went ahead and pardoned Sheriff Joe. As president, Trump has banned newcomers from six Muslim-majority countries, sought to repeal affirmative action, stepped up deportations of largely Latino undocumented immigrants, and defended Confederate monuments. No wonder Trump loves Sheriff Joe: The two men are united by similar, equally repugnant belief systems and a similar willingness to run roughshod over the Constitution to enhance their own power.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 28, 2017 14:03 UTC