As Mr. Trump was [finally] delivering the kind of statement his critics had demanded over the weekend, Fox News reported that the president is considering pardoning former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a political ally accused of federal civil rights violations for allegedly mistreating prisoners, many of them black and Hispanic.

"I am seriously considering a pardon for Sheriff Arpaio," the president said in an interview Sunday — at the height of the controversy over Charlottesville — speaking to the network at his club in Bedminster, N.J. "He has done a lot in the fight against illegal immigration. He's a great American patriot and I hate to see what has happened to him."

This is from the New York Times, August 14, 2017

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August 14, 2017

Addendum. Here is The Rap Sheet Against Sheriff Arpaio.

://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/opinion/the-rap-sheet-a...

He embodies the racist policing of immigrants that the racist Donald Trump wants.