If you don’t already know that there are rabid individuals on both extremes of the political spectrum, I don’t know what to tell you.
And they would know that because…? How would anyone know what Trump is going to announce today? Trump himself may not know.
Fox 10 Phoenix was discussing it a minute ago, they seem to think it’s unlikely too.
Why don’t you come visit your pit thread?
It’s possible Trump goes off script or makes comments about how Arpaio should be pardoned.
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Why would he want to make Arpaio the center of attention? These weird ass [del]klan gatherings[/del] rallies exist solely to soothe his infantile need for approval and reassurance.
I don’t know that that’s their ONLY purpose, but it’s easy to imagine that it’s one of their purposes.
For the sake of the country, hopefully he won’t pardon Arpaio (since I think he very clearly broke the law, in addition to being a vile bigot who has hurt a lot of decent people), but for the sake of the Democratic party, I hope he does – the more of this kind of thing from Trump, the better for the Democrats’ chances of making Hispanic Americans as large and as long-term a Democratic constituency as African Americans.
Aren’t pardons pretty much always for people who “very clearly broke the law”? If there had been some “reasonable doubt” as to that question, they should have been acquitted.
Okay, yes – I’ll add that he (from my understanding and in my judgment) very clearly broke a just law, and doesn’t deserve a pardon in any way at all.
Sometimes people successfully apply for pardons after reasonable doubt pops up after a conviction, and they land in a limbo where they couldn’t be convicted in a new trial but also don’t have cause to get the conviction overturned. (Joe Arpaio is obviously not in this category, though.)
President Trump is not speaking in Arizona yet, but they were playing “We are the champions, my friend” a minute ago. It does have a very campaign-rally-esque feel to it.
Not surprising as it’s been billed as a campaign rally from the start.
Last year, Queen denounced the use of their song at the Republican National Convention as not authorised. Do you think they’ve authorised it now?
No “authorization” is needed, AFAIU, to just blast a song at a rally at a public arena.
Every big arena already has a “public performance” license with every organization that covers all the popular songs. The performer can sue under several laws to claim that playing of the song damages his “image” or suggests his endorsement for the candidacy, but I would suspect after spending lots of $ on the suit he will lose if the song was just played before the rally.
You can say that of many pardons and commutations in history. That’s why they are often left until the end of a presidency.
If I had to guess Trump is going to pardon Sheriff Joe but he will probably wait till next month when the sentencing happens. All that will happen is some knashing of teeth and an old man doesn’t go to jail for a couple of weeks.
My guess is that Trump will bury his pardon over Thanksgiving or Christmas
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That may be too late. He is due to be sentenced October 5th. I’m sure they will ask for a delay I the sentence being carried out until appeal but I don’t know if in federal court that will be automatically granted. He already hinted about in today he doesn’t care about burying it.
I’m actually less convinced that Trump will do it than I was before the rally. I think he would have done it then if he really wanted to do it. Sheriff Joe can ask Trump’s creditors how it feels to want something from Donald Trump.
I would take a dozen free pardons in advance even if I had never done anything wrong rather than spend a day in prison.
My good name won’t mean squat in 50 years time.