Former ethics director: Trump's Arpaio pardon a sign of 'worse to come'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY BRANDON CARTER - 08/26/17 09:12 AM EDT

The former director of the Office of Government Ethics ripped President Trump for pardoning controversial former Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, calling it “vile” and a “racist, pro-authoritarian gesture.”

“What POTUS says ‘exemplifies selfless public service’ is: dehumanizing inmates, racial profiling, and gleefully defying a court order,” Walter Shaub tweeted Friday night. “Every one of you WH staffers owns this disgusting, un-American, racist pro-authoritarian gesture forever like it was tattooed on your forehead.”

“This pardon also departs from procedural norms. And as an affirmative act by POTUS, it reveals an emboldening. A harbinger of worse to come.”

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Shaub then linked to the Department of Justice’s webpage detailing the process for considering a pardon, and singled out the section entitled “acceptance of responsibility, remorse and atonement.”

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[Achilleaze]

1. The ignoble russo-republican Enfant Tyrant Terrible

is pissing and pooping all over Americans, truth, integrity, and the high tradition of American democracy.

Shame on the entire, spineless republican party for doing this to America.

[lunasun]

2. Oh I unfortunately agree. One year from now everything he has done in the last week

will seem mild . A new norm is coming

[GusBob]

4. Obama predicted this would happen

He saw Trump& the KKK playing footsie before the election, that's what he meant by the presidency magnifies what you are comment

[GusBob]

3. He has been a racist since how long? Of course there is worse yet to come

From denying housing to blacks, the Central Park 5, birtherism

Now his staff is telling him to collect a GOP scalp, a whipping boy, in order to threaten the other roadies in the GOP, keep them under his lash

Racist way back when, racist now, racist forever

This is and has been the GOP's dirty work for decades now. Nothing and no one can or will stop him

The worst is yet to come

[BigmanPigman]

5. It will get worse...get your galoshes ready since we will be in deep shit.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

15. Watch for Eisenhower era policies..he's getting his racist ducks lined up; rollback of

...protections of daca, their parents, their American born children and just to show how evil, vile he is, possible rcoll back on protections for orphaned children refugees from central America. Eisenhower program deported 1.5million immigrants, people humans -- this monster is set to report as many or more, if only he can find those 3million Mexicans that frauduenly voted for Hillary, all lies of course, votes that gave her the win on the popular vote..would be the ultimately revenge.

Folks, he's going after the most vulnerable of our population, the immigrant--does not have the rights, the resources, the poder to challenge status..they came under a broken immigration system that demanded low wage workers by all American industries ..then when there is political push back ..they are deemed the problem as to what ails America..they are criminalized, denigrated spat on by racist Americans who exploit, profit from their labor, or by the rest of us who believe the lies about them, voted for that vile evil racist...

So we all stay home and eat cake...while watching humans lined up, forced out after all they are illegal aliens, wetbacks, all vulgar epitaphs against human beings...as hate groups are allowed spew hate, that's not free speech, thats abuse-- as they do wth all groups whitesupremacists ist hate, well that would be just about everyone. Queno? .Do you not hear the hate, that hate permeates into hate and racist policies. They will be forced out because we failed them--they live, work, worship, patronize businesses contribute to our communities.

Oh sure, Congressional republikkklans will come out and rebuke the vile man occupying the WH..as they have, but a noticeable observation ..they have all been bigly quiet about these proposed roll backs and that my friends is telling..why because trumpf is not an anomaly, he is the reflection of the republikkklan party , they just find a useful racist idiot, the loudest most obnoxious trumpeter to spew hate propaganda and lies about every group they despise...first nation, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, MuslimJewslgbtAmericans, immigrants and refugees and everyone non white, non Christian, nongay .. why? Because every republikkklan is racist and bigoted ..they can come out and state niceties ...heat have always liars and hypocrites and racists that hide behind so called Christian values..they are call hypocrites and liars...and cowards!

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Pardoning henchmen obliterates Bill of Rights. Nothing is safe. It's a regime of plunder.

Nowhere to hide, and no idea what to do about it.

[dalton99a]

7. Of course - and he knows nothing can stop him

[jpak]

8. Im-fucking-peach

now

[Pachamama]

9. Vile.....

Indeed

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Yup. This is going to escalate.

[padah513]

11. Arpaio was practice.

He's trying to see just how far he can push the envelope on pardons, and just when it looks like Mueller is gonna bring it, he's gonna unload. I bet he has the pardons for his friends and family already written up, signed, and sitting in his desk.

[spiderpig]

12. He's hiding behind a hurricane, waving shiny objects

to try to distract attention from Mueller's relentless pursuit.

I have to be optimistic and think it's not gonna work.

We all know that the rest of us are mere mosquitoes in 45's self-loving universe. I truly have never seen a dumber and more self-absorbed creature in my life.

He's going down bigly. The Titanic wreck is saying "Thank you for surpassing me as the poster-child for epic disasters".

Buh-bye Donnie - you disgusting, worthless, ignorant, lying, exploiting, criminal piece of crap. You'll go down in history - just not in the way you think.

[Sunlei]

13. was a test run by Republican party to set-up pardons for all their (R)ussian mafias

don't think trump even has a security clearance. Republicans did the dossier on him to make sure he would shut-up about, the hacking of our democracy, election vote tampering & (R)ussian real estate/money laundering scams.

[riversedge]

14. Walter tweet on Cohn ............

and so it goes!!





Walter Shaub?Verified account @waltshaub 34m34 minutes ago

POTUS: ...all sides... fine people...

COHN: I almost-quit. Do better

POTUS: Arpaio... selfless service... pardon

COHN [studies shoes]: --

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