Why EVERYONE is WRONG in Criticizing Trump’s Pardon of Sheriff Joe

by:D Jolly 

Everyone, including a number of Republicans, are criticizing President Donald Trump for pardoning former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and every one of those critics are dead wrong! The most shocking criticism was that of Arizona’s two senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake. 

McCain responded to the pardon, telling the media:

“Mr. Arpaio was found guilty of criminal contempt for continuing to illegally profile Latinos living in Arizona based on their perceived immigration status in violation of a judge’s orders. The president has the authority to make this pardon, but doing so at this time undermines his claim for the respect of rule of law as Mr. Arpaio has shown no remorse for his actions.”

McCain, Flake, Democrats and the liberal mainstream media are all saying that Trump’s pardon is racially divisive and sending the wrong message.
Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE is forgetting the real reason Arpaio was falsely accused and wrongfully convicted of racial profiling and the subsequent wrongful contempt of court charge and conviction.


The only thing Arpaio was guilty of was doing the job he was elected to do by the nearly 4 million residents of Maricopa County – enforce the laws of the county, state and nation.
The only reason Arpaio found himself in hot water was because he listened to the people of the county who petitioned him to investigate Barack Obama’s birth certificate. At the beginning, Arpaio believed the investigation was unnecessary, so he said he would not spend any taxpayer money on the investigation and turned it over to his Cold Case Posse, which is a volunteer organization who raise their own money.
After several months of investigation, the Cold Case Posse found overwhelming and compelling evidence that the alleged official Obama birth certificate presented by the White House was a forgery and that the individuals involved in making the forgery and presenting it to the public as genuine were guilty of fraud.


That is when Obama ordered then Attorney General Eric Holder to go after Arpaio and destroy his career and credibility. Holder used the Department of Justice to attack Arpaio. They listened to the complaints of many illegals and decided to accuse Arpaio of racial profiling for targeting Hispanics.
I have close contacts involved in law enforcement in Maricopa County and they all tell me that over 75% of the crime in the county was directly or indirectly due to illegal aliens and illegal drug trafficking, and that the two things were often connected. Since Hispanics were the cause of over 75% of the crime in the county, it only made sense that the Sheriff’s Department focused a lot of their attention on Hispanics.


Secondly, it needs to be known that sheriff’s deputies did not pull over Hispanics just for being Hispanics without probably cause. Whenever they did pull over or arrest an illegal, they did check their citizenship and immigration status which is what any good law enforcement officer should do.
One of my sources put it another way. He asked if it made sense to only focus efforts and money on investigating one group of people when you know that the other group are responsible for most of the crime? He said that any good police officer would be derelict of his or her duty if they did and that’s exactly what Arpaio was doing.


When the racially driven DOJ, under Obama and Holder, pushed to convict Arpaio and his department of racial profiling, they were trying to force them to be derelict of their sworn duty as law enforcement officers. Then they got the court to order a monitor, appointed by the court, to watch everything the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department did, to make sure they were being derelict instead of actually doing their duty.
Arpaio said that the people of the county elected him to uphold the laws and he fully intended to do that job, so he did. Consequently, he was charged with being in contempt of the court order.


The entire case against Arpaio was nothing more than a hatchet job by Obama and Holder for daring to the tell the nation that his alleged birth certificate was a fake, along with Obama’s Social Security Number and Selective Service Card.
Arpaio did nothing wrong and should never have been charged with a crime in the first place. All President Trump was doing was correcting the injustice done by Barack Obama and Eric Holder. The pardon has nothing to do with condoning racial profiling or anything like what critics are claiming, it was correcting a wrong, but no one seems to understand or realize the real story.
Pardoning former Sheriff Joe Arpaio was the best and most noble thing President Donald Trump has done since taking office in January. He was righting a wrong that should never have happened in the first place.