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by Rachel Stockman | 10:14 pm, August 28th, 2017
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Without any evidence to back it up, Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign aide and supporter, insinuated that a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice under President Obama colluded to go after Arpaio criminally. The comment from Caputo came after CNNs legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin pointed out that it was a federal judge who initiated the contempt charge not the Justice Department. U.S. District Court Judge Murray Snow recommended to prosecutors that they bring contempt charges. Snow found that Arpaio willfully violated his order which prohibited Arpaios department from unconstitutionally stopping drivers just because they suspected they were in the country illegally. Judge Snow also found that Arpaio failed to properly keep records like he was supposed to.
If you think that the judge and the Justice Deparment werent communicating than you are a little naive on that part too, Caputo insisted about why the charges against Arpaio were brought.
That quickly drew the attention of CNN host John Berman who asked Caputo if he just made the allegation that the DOJ and a federal judge colluded without any evidence. Caputo seemed to stumble a bit.
No, thats not what Ive done. What Im saying here is the judge is an Obama appointee, the Justice Department who brought this down on Arpaio was very .. , Caputo said trailing off.
Actually Caputo is wrong on that point too. U.S. District Judge Murray Snow, who initiated the charges, is a George W. Bush appointee. Judge Susan Bolton, who found Arpaio guilty during a trial, is also not an Obama appointee (she was appointed by Bill Clinton)
Listen, this is all about illegal immigration and specifically illegally immigration. It is a partisan very visceral debate.. with people entrenched on both sides. Arpaio became kind of the vision of all that, Caputo said.
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GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)He has been spewing his lies all week. I wish CNN and the others would wake the hell up, and stop inviting this congenital liar onto their networks. But, they won't.
spanone
(135,861 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)justhanginon
(3,290 posts)interview from this corrupt administration are going to lie. They lie about anything and everything you ask them regarding this cabal now running the country. When you have a congenital liar in charge there are really no repercussions if you do the same. In point of fact they are probably encouraged to do so as a political ploy.