People are
outraged Trump hid
behind a
hurricane to
pardon Joe Arpaio
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With a
Category 4 hurricane bearing down on the Gulf Coast, Donald
Trump decided it was the right time to
pardon Joe Arpaio.
The former sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County was found guilty of criminal contempt for ignoring court orders to stop racially profiling drivers. (The ACLU has a
good summary of why
People are so critical of Arpaio.)*
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Trump blasts the media for not praising him when he was nice to Nazis
Trump strongly
hinted that the pardon was coming earlier this week at a rally in Phoenix. Turns out he did it Friday — hours, according to CBS News, before he decided whether he would sign a disaster declaration for the states in the path of what could be the
strongest storm to hit the U.S. since 2005.*
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