President Trump granted a pardon to Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., on Friday.
Arpaio, 85, was recently found guilty of criminal contempt for defying a judge’s order to stop traffic patrols that allegedly targeted immigrants.
He had been charged with misdemeanor contempt of court for allegedly willfully defying a judge’s order in 2011 and prolonging his patrols for another 17 months.
.@POTUS's pardon of Joe Arpaio, who illegally profiled Latinos, undermines his claim for the respect of rule of law https://t.co/2FckGtwQ2m
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) August 26, 2017
“Sheriff Joe Arpaio is now 85 years old, and after more than 50 years of admirable service to our Nation, he is worthy candidate for a Presidential pardon,” the White House said in a statement.
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I am very happy Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio. It was the right thing to do. MAGA!!
So, this “Republican” wants to imprison an 85-year old patriot, What? for ten years? twenty years? For jailing illegals?
McCain needs to do the right thing, join the Democratic party!!
I don’t think Mccain has EVER done the right thing.. So expecting him to do so now, is fool hardy..
If McCain did the right thing, He would remember
what General Douglas Mac Arthur said: “old
soldiers never die, they just fade away” Oh what
a blessing that would be.
i am glad he pardoned sheriff joe also.
anything that trump does that the lefties and rinos hate is goooood!!
All McCain has done is ride the sympathy train for the last 50 years. He didn’t fly a jet any better than he ran for president. That’s why he got his butt flamed.
I agree. Compared to the thousands of people Obozo pardoned, Arpaio actually DESERVED it..
McCain ….go ahead and join the dems..are you mad because you could not win the presidency..?
Of course MaCain dissents. He would dissent if Trump said the sun will rise in the East tomorrow. McCain never misses an opportunity to demonstrate how little of his brain is left.
McCain needs to take his liberal *** across the aisle and shut the hell up !!
No, what he needs to do is just hurry up and die off.. OR have the people of AZ recall his behind for incompetence and being mentally unfit for office..
McCain needs to shut up.. I didn’t hear him say a word when Obama pardoned that American Traitor who sold secrets… did he… He is DISGUSTING!!! He needs to shut up and go away…
Sheriff Arpaio (IMO) did NOTHING wrong.. he tried to enforce our laws.. those illegal aliens have NO right to be in this country.. PERIOD!!! The Federal government targeted him and did not like that he was enforcing our laws… WE NEED MORE SHERIFFS LIKE HIM… THIS COUNTRY WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE WITH MORE SHERIFFS LIKE HIM
Actually, i could have sworn i saw something mentioned Mccain PRAISED obama for commuting Manning’s sentence..
The said thing is John Traitor McCain, when he dies from his brain cancer, will be hailed as a hero. Secondly, shame on you brain dead voters in Arizona, who kept voting in this traitor. You RINO voters are a disgrace. “Useful idiots” describes you RINO voters to a tee!
Do you know the definition of traitor and where it’s found in US law? Also, did you ever serve in the military, get injured, and become disabled. Sen. McCain is a RINO, but at least he sacrificed for this country.
Yeah a real patriotic stud that McCain boy is. That’s why the NVA guards in the Hanoi Hilton gave him the name “songbird” He got shot down, then shot off his mouth. Stockbridge and the rest of the former POW’s all agree that every man has his breaking point. Some arrived at that point far sooner than others.
Evidence of the man’s lack of loyalty can be seen to this very day.
His dramatic, Ceaser-esque vote with the thumbs down gesture, then running over to do high fives with his Demorat buddies on the replacement for the ACA is yet another example of how far the man’s cancer of the brain has had an effect. The guy should take this opportunity to be at home with his family. Unless, of course they don’t want the doddering old fool around either!
Arizona has a chance to rid itself of two flakes with a single election. Time will tell how those folks feel about their future.
Sorry to disappoint you, but it was American POW activists who called McCain “Hanoi Songbird”, not N. Vietnamese guards. In addition, two POWs who were in the Hanoi Hilton at the same time dispute the allegations that McCain was a traitor.
What McCain is is a RINO. I don’t believe he supports the original Republican values of limited government, low taxation, and law and order. We need real conservative constitutionalists in Congress.
McCain is NO hero. He crashed a plane onto the deck of a carrier, killing many of his own men. Then he gets shot down while disobeying an order, and rats out his fellow countrymen. He rode his daddy’s coat tails throughout his younger years, and now disgraces his father’s name with every word he utters. John McCain is the worst the political elite have to offer. He can’t die soon enough. Oh, and by the way recce1, yes, I did serve in the US Army, 8 years.
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Sadly, McCain is not up for re-election. He ran in 2016 and we’re stuck with him for 6 years or brain cancer, whichever comes first. He’s not planning on running again.
He no longer has anything to lose by going full-on RINO, which in his case already having been a full-on RINO, means he might as well declare for the Democrats. We all know who his real pals are.
Trump ought to make it official and kick him out of the Republican party.
Hey, there’s a thought. The Media would no longer be able to put his ugly mug on TV as an example of “Republicans” who disagree with Trump. It would be a symbolic victory if nothing else.
McCain is a disgrace.
Yes i do know the definition reece.. Its “Giving aid and comfort to the enemy”.. SINCE BY many accounts he spilled his guts to the enemy when he was a POW, that definitely qualifies him for that. AND HE WOULD HAVE been courts martialed for it, when we got him back, HAD IT NOT once again been his admiral daddy covering for him..
“but at least he sacrificed for this country.”
But we never hear of his role in concealing the fact we left up to 600 POW’s in Vietnam
He betrayed them
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By Sydney H. Schanberg
The Nation – John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home.
the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs …. The report gave no figures but estimates from various branches of the intelligence community ranged up to 600. The lowest estimate was 150.
Here is a little bed time reading https://rightedition.com/2017/02/18/songbird-mccain-evidence-words-fellow-veterans-captors/
BTW baitfish, it was McCain’s A-4 on the deck of the Forrestal when a Zuni rocket was accidentally fired from another A-4 on the starboard side of the deck. McCain’s aircraft had been armed and wit the entire strike package for the day. The resulting fire cost 134 men their lives and injured 161 men. The casualty is still used in training to this day.
Now he needs to appointment him to head ICE!
That or the Border Patrol.
As old as Arpio is, i doubt he would ever be confirmed to either job…
Has anyone checked the voting registration records in AZ? I am baffled as to why Sen. McCain (Rino-AZ) is continually elected…and not ran off tarred and feathered. Is it because those of voting age in AZ who have registered as being Republican are indeed RINOs themselves? I can think of only these two reasons as to why he remains in office.
Sheriff Joe has become, and remains, an American hero….standing strong for our laws and justice and for “getting the job done”. Not surprising then how left-leaning, lifelong politicians …on the public dole… would find him so offensive, much as they do Trump. His pardoning of Joe for working fearlessly to UPHOLD the laws of the land and make our country a safer place is in stark contrast to the recent pardoning catastrophe of Obama who pardoned/released/unleashed hundreds of drug dealers, embezzlers, thieves, money launderers, etc. back onto the streets of our United States to continue once again their “preferred” trades.
Thank you President Trump for pardoning Joe. Indeed another public moment of doing that which is just…….MakingAmericaGreatAgain!
As for us Arizonians…….. The scuzzball AZ Republican party run so many candidates in the primary that McLame stole it……. The Democrat that run against him was just a wee bit worse than McLame, but at least she was a Democrat, as in believing she was what she said she was. Lame Brain McCain
So what did Sen. McCain do that was illegal in the election? Isn’t the problem with the Party because it ran too many candidates, and likely weak ones at that? How do we rank and file Republicans clean up the Party that doesn’t seem to represent the traditional values of the GOP? What happened to its core values of limited government, fiscal sanity, law and order, avoidance of unnecessary foreign entanglements, lower taxation, and true federalism?
Recce1, McCain’s antics in the primary were not illegal, but were definitely immoral. They ran dummy candidates to siphon votes from his main challenger thus assuring his primary win. It’s not illegal, just dirty politics. Another reason to reject flawed “hero” McCain. He deserves no respect.
teapartyproud, is there any evidence that McCain ran dummy candidates in the election or did the GOP Establishment do so?
By the way, I don’t consider McCain a hero, but as a former serviceman, I find it troubling when others who’ve likely never served disparage those who have and have suffered greatly for it.
I do wish McCain would retire and that a real TEA Party type Republican would take his seat in the Senate. We need to support those who take the Constitution as exegetically written.
Thanks.
Recce1
Benedict Arnold was a serviceman, but his name is now synonymous with Traitor. Unlike McCain, Arnold really was a war hero.
Arnold’s raids into Canada were noted by the French. He was a superior warrior and a ruthless commander. Up until these raids, the French had no faith that the USA could possibly win the revolution. After witnessing Arnold’s mastery of battle, the French lent us much-needed financial aid to fight the war.
If not for Benedict Arnold, there would be no USA. But then Arnold turned coat. Despite his illustrious war record, he was and will always be a traitor to our nation.
McCain is a traitor, without the illustrious war record of Benedict Arnold. He performed no heroic deeds. As much as I support our troops, and I do, I don’t go slapping the word “hero” on everyone who wears a uniform. The word means nothing if applied to McCain.
In WWII we captured a lot of Nazis in uniform. Were they all war heroes just for wearing a uniform? I think not. Being a POW doesn’t make you a hero. Neither is McCain.
Name one heroic thing McCain ever did. Or name one battle he’s won. You can’t. He’s no hero.
I support the action of President Trump. The good sheriff was actually enforcing the law. Economics causes crime. Therefore, minorities commit most of the crime because they are poor. What is wrong with Senator McCain?
I agree with Mamacat1041 McCain is a fraud. A Bully,Traitor, Liar,Adulterer. Sheriff Joe is a Hero
http://fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/fraud/elections_campaigning/news.php?q=1217103060
So how is McCain a fraud, bully, and traitor? Do you even know the definition of traitor? By the way, have you ever lied or had sex out of marriage?
McCain swore an oath of allegiance upon getting voted in. He swore to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Breaking that oath makes you a traitor.
Whenever President Trump performs a legal action, in keeping with his Article II powers under the Constitution, and McCain tries to undermine him, he is really undermining the US Constitution. That is the action of a traitor. Trump doesn’t need McCain’s permission to pardon Joe Arpaio, and no the Constitution isn’t “wrong” for giving Trump that power.
Also, giving aid and comfort to the enemy in times of war makes you a traitor.
To a lesser degree, he’s a RINO (Republican In Name Only). He runs as a Republican, but sides with the Democrats. He is without a doubt a traitor to the Republican Party. Granted, there’s no oath required to be a Republican, but the same mentality that would cause a man to betray his Party would also cause him to betray his country.
Or in McCain’s case, he first betrayed his country, then betrayed his Party. Then betrayed his country some more.
A man who is disloyal in one thing is disloyal in all. Fidelity is loyalty to your spouse. Adultery is disloyalty. McCain is only loyal to himself.
John McCain needs to switch to the Dems where he belongs. He should have done that a long time ago, but then he probably could not be elected if he did.
We can certainly HOPE he wouldn’t have ever been elected, if he switched party and outright came out of the closet as a Democrat.
McCain is sick and needs to get out of the Senate so he can get medical help and counseling. Then AZ can put someone from that state in the Senate that can be of help getting this Nation back on track.
And yes, thank you President Trump for doing what is right for the Best Sheriff in AZ
McCain should not be opining about politics. He is not thinking straight and should not be held responsible for the off comments he is making! In fact, his vote to not repeal Obama care should not count. He should be focusing on his health, rather than saying things that are destroying our country! I feel very sorry for his daughter, Meagan! She gave such a moving speech about her dad when it was discovered he has brain cancer. Now that he is doing all these irrational things, she is probably having a tough time showing her face! I don’t see her on Fox anymore! He needs to drop out of politics and save whatever respect he has left.
Very good commentary hijalibre. I agree with all you mentioned.
Unfortunately your opinion isn’t supported by the Constitution. That’s why we need term limits, and perhaps even an amendment like the 25th which would apply to Senators and Representatives when they’re suffering from ill health.
I’m not sure that Meagan McCain’s not being on Fox much has to do with her father. I fear that Fox is discouraging conservative hosts and commentators more and more.
What you allude to is a reason for us conservatives to back an Article V Convention to repeal the 17th Amendment. That’d give back to the Sovereign States their representation in the federal government.
It might also permit the State legislatures to recall Senators they believe have strayed from the principles they were elected on. In addition, we need Term Limits.
Repealing the 17th would be wonderful. It would prevent people from promising one thing and then doing the opposite once in office. This is especially true for Senators, who have 6 year terms.
For the 17th Amendment don’t think Senator, think Representative. All the Senators and Congressmen are supposed to represent their States. If they are doing a poor job of that, their State will recall them on the spot.
As a failsafe, States ought to be able to exercise a do-over in case their maverick representative votes contrary to their will. Suppose McCain (as a purely random example) votes to hand over our nuclear codes to Russia. If the State recalls McCain for this, it’s pretty clear that he voted out of line, and his vote should also be up for recall.
None of this “Too late I already cast my vote nyaa nyaa” nonsense.
Starting 24 hours (in response to a horrible action) before the bill is introduced in the State legislature to repeal a representative, all official votes after that point should be subject to recall as well.
The judge that administered the trial for Sheriff Joe was agreeing with obamas idea that if obama said to ignore the Valid laws of the United States it was the correct thing to do. I think that a Federal Law takes pesidence over conversation by a burglar in the White house.
And refusing to enforce valid laws is cause for impeachment, be it a federal judge or a president. Both the judge and Mr. (intentional) Obama should have been removed from their positions.
Leith.. THAT is why i say Federal marshals should be sent into EVERY city, town and state that have declared themselves, sanctuary cities, AND START arresting every politician, sheriff, and DA who have REFUSED to enforce federal law on immigration.. CAUSE THEY ARE ignoring the law..
McCain is insignificant and after killing NAVY PERSONNEL with his hot start during the VIETNAM
WAR he continues the assault with the USS JOHN McCain !!!
I wish puerile caitiffs like you who’ve likely never served or sacrificed for this country would quit the blatant prevarications. McCain never killed any US military personnel, only N and S. Vietnamese enemy. Nor did he ever do a WET (hot) start that damaged anything. In addition, the USS Forrestal fire which killed about 130 Navy crewmen wasn’t McCain’s fault. But I realize many haters of McCain love to claim otherwise despite the inconvenient facts.
Also, the destroyer USS John S. McCain is named after ADMIRAL John S. McCain AND ADMIRAL John S. McCain II, not CAPTAIN John S. McCain III. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence could look that up. But then I wouldn’t expect that of someone who disparages those who’ve sacrificed a lot for this country but is simply consumed with animus.
So grow up and become a mensch.
Wrong again, John. Your incompetence and neglect are about over. The VA and the border are going to be fixed by the president in spite of your ignorance and disloyalty.
John McCain is insane and needs to forced out.
McCain has brain cancer and will die within the next 7-months like most brain cancer patients. Brain cancer patients become noticeably incompetent after 30-days of brain cancer surgery, even if they are pumped full of steroids and other enhancement drugs.
McCain needs to be removed from office and sent home to be with his family for his final days before he makes any more embarrassing mistakes.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio was illegally targeted by loser Obama because he exposed all the discrepancies on Obama’s fake birth certificate. Sheriff Joe’s pardon was justified.
Perhaps if the 17th Amendment was repealed States could recall Senators they felt were no longer effective either for reasons of health or political stance. I also favor term limits.
Recc1, I believe repealing the 17th Amendment is vital if we are going to “drain the swamp”, because returning the election of Senators to state legislatures is the ONLY way to put a stop to the blatant BRIBERY and buying of Senators by special interest lobbyists offering campaign funding in exchange for selling out their constituents. “Career politicians” were NOT the kind of “statesmen” our Founding Fathers envisioned in either the House OR the Senate. Too bad we don’t have a similar mechanism to reign in the House of Representatives! Term limits would be a real good start, though.
Reece, that’s why i signed up on that convention of states when it made the rounds last year..
Long live Joe Arpaio! McCain is RINO in chief! Thank you, President Trump, for righting this horrible wrong!
And thanks for not mentioning McCain’s name at your rally. Hero’s are Hero’s because the are brave and save lives not because they surrender and spend time safe time in captivity.
McCain needs to retire. He’s done enough damage.
McCain needs to fade away into the sunset. Thank God for men like Joe Arpaio who will stand for law and order.
McCain needs to fade away into the sunset. Thank God for Joe Arpaio and those like him who stand up for righteousness.
Extremely happy that Trump pardoned Sheriff Joe! Joe is a great American, just doing his job as instructed by the laws of America and the State of Arizona. The Judge was the problem here and perhaps his misbehavior should be examined by the Judicial Review Board. I am sure there is a place on the Trump Team for Joe working on the Immigration Problems of America – he seems to have the right answers to the illegal alien problems! Go Joe, Make America Great Again. And to McCain – I worked very hard to get you elected, I appreciate your service as I am also a Vietnam Veteran – but I think you have developed a mental illness as you are not the same human being I voted for! Somehow you have been corrupted.
He should be one to complain about someone being pardoned for BS charges, with all the crap he got away with in his lifetime.
It’s party time!
LEEENK!
This is a wonderful day. Thank you, thank you, President Donald Trump for smacking the hand of judicial over-reach with a Presidential yardstick. How DARE they arrest and convict a great American like Joe Arpaio for doing his job and doing his job well?
You can’t argue the common sense of his tent city prison. Why should prisoners get better treatment than our soldiers in Afghanistan who never committed a felony? The shouldn’t. And because of him they didn’t. No HBO for you, criminal.
What a wonderful day! What a joyful day. This day, justice does not lay bleeding in the streets. This day, justice and mercy have merged. Rightfully so.
To John McCain – How *DARE* you offer a dissenting opinion on this? You sir are a hater of the Rule of Law. You swore an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. But like the liar you are, you are the domestic enemy of the Constitution.
You are a traitor to this nation. If I was king for a day, you would answer for your crimes. Filthy America-hating divider.
I think we need to stop badmouthing John McCain, and start praying for him. He has brain cancer, for pity’s sake! I don’t think he is thinking straight. He has been a hero in the past and should be respected for that, not hated. Brain cancer has probably been affecting his thinking for quite a while. He needs to drop out of office, and be allowed to ride into the sunset peacefully.
McCain was never a hero, and he has been “thinking that way” for a very long time. In 2013 he formed the Gang of Eight in an effort to take control of the Senate and move it leftward.
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Notice the names Jeff Flake, Lindsay Graham, and Chuck Schumer. These are McCain’s peers in ideology. They were far to the left of John Boehner, who shut down their attempts to erase the border. Also note Rubio’s name in that list.
Respect is earned, not given out of pity, else it’s not actually respect. McCain has done nothing to earn my respect. I have no respect for John McCain. On top of that, he is a liar, a RINO, and an oath breaker. On top of that, his weak-kneed performance in the 2008 election gave us 8 years of Obama. He didn’t want to appear “mean” to Obama then but now he’s got the courage of 40 men when it comes to being mean to Trump.
If he had attacked Obama 1/10th as hard back then we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Zero respect. Not a war hero. Useless RINO.
That said, if you can pray him into being a hero and not a villain, then more power to you. The Apostle Paul started out as Saul of Tarsus and was everything John McCain is and more. He later called himself the chief of all sinners. But God turned him around into a powerful force for the Lord.
But before that happened, he was a smug, scumbag, sinner, turncoat who arrested and killed Christians. He felt it was his duty.
So we need to take an honest look at McCain. We’re not starting with a hero and trying to make him better. We’re starting with someone who is a total loss and trying to save him. God has performed mighty miracles with worse.
If you’re going to pray for him, pray very hard.
Sure, we can pray for him. But even before he had brain cancer, he was a very bad person… always has been. Look up his history if you are not aware. He was shot down in Vietnam and served as a POW for years. I feel sorry for him having to endure that. But as Trump said, it hardly made him a War Hero. Just a victim of circumstances. Time for him to leave politics for the good of the nation.
hijalibre, yes he has brain cancer. BUT HE’s been a total idiot for a hell of a long time, and deserves NO ONE’s prayers..
Sheriff Joe has the spirit of what made America great. Sadly, it is hard to find now. McCain is a disgrace to the Republic.
One can often tell when brain function becomes erratic. Joe Arpaio was railroaded by a court system designed to remove individual freedoms. No one in their right mind could object to righting wrong and to investigating legislating from the bench.
McCain talks like somebody with brain cancer!
The President did the right thing. McCain objected. It’s an equation.
“McCain Dissents”, but did not become apoplectic.