The following article by Michelle Ye Hee Lee was posted on the Washington Post website August 30, 2017:
Joe Arpaio’s illegal-immigration crackdown made him a polarizing figure and an early ally of President Trump. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
“He is loved in Arizona. I thought he was treated unbelievably unfairly when they came down with their big decision to go get him right before the election voting started, as you know. And he lost in a fairly close election. He would’ve won the election, but they just hammered him just before the election. I thought that was a very, very unfair thing to do.”
— President Trump, news conference, Aug. 28, 2017
“Thank you @realdonaldtrump for seeing my conviction for what it is: a political witch hunt by holdovers in the Obama justice department!”
— Former sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, post on Twitter, Aug. 25, 2017 Continue reading “Was former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio’s criminal conviction an Obama ‘political witch hunt’?”