President Trump Hints at Pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio: “I Think He’s Going to Be Just Fine”

Hours before President Donald Trump’s rally in Phoenix, Arizona, the White House made it clear that Sheriff Joe Arpaio wouldn’t be pardoned.

But during his largely off-script speech tonight, Trump promised to protect Sheriff Joe, and predicted he’s “going to be just fine.” This means a pardon will happen, and soon.

And the crowd’s reaction is priceless! WATCH:

Sheriff Arpaio was convicted after defying a state judge’s order to stop traffic patrols targeting suspected undocumented immigrants.

As Fox News reports:

President Trump may soon issue a pardon for Joe Arpaio, the colorful former Arizona sheriff who was found guilty two weeks ago of criminal contempt for defying a state judge’s order to stop traffic patrols targeting suspected undocumented immigrants. In his final years as Maricopa County sheriff, Arpaio had emerged as a leading opponent of illegal immigration.

“I am seriously considering a pardon for Sheriff Arpaio,” the president said Sunday, during a conversation with Fox News 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.”

Trump said the pardon could happen in the next few days, should he decide to do so.

This is extraordinary:

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