Salt Lake Tribune · Aug 28, 2017
Jennifer Rubin: Arpaio reminds us: Trump's team enables evil behavior
Once again, Trump made common cause not with the victims of racism or persecution but with their perpetrator.
(Mary Altaffer | The Associated Press) In this Jan. 26, 2016 file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of metro Phoenix, at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa.As Hurricane Harvey was about to make landfall President Donald Trump announced the pardon of former Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio, not mentioning the circumstances of his conviction for criminal contempt (i.e., flagrantly violating and then boasting about violating a court order on racial profiling).