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After Trump pardon, Joe Arpaio gives interview to publication that denies the Holocaust
From Media Matters:
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/09/19/after-trump-pardon-joe-arpaio-gives-interview-publication-denies-holocaust/217971
Joe Arpaio, the racist Arizona sheriff who was recently pardoned by President Donald Trump, gave another interview to an anti-Semitic publication that has repeatedly pushed claims that the Holocaust is a “hoax.”
Trump pardoned Arpaio on August 25 after he was convicted of criminal contempt of court for deliberately violating a court order regarding his racial profiling of undocumented immigrants. As the Phoenix New Times has documented, Arpaio -- who was voted out of office last November -- had “fostered horrendous jail conditions, reckless police operations, and carried out personal vendettas against political rivals and members of the press. ... Foremost, he and his deputies have violated the Constitutional rights of brown-skinned U.S. citizens and have committed outright cruelty against the undocumented.”
American Free Press published a September 15 piece by roving editor Mark Anderson stating that it “recently” interviewed Arpaio to combat “the false narrative that Arpaio had engaged in ‘racial profiling’ when his deputies apprehended illegal alien suspects.” The piece shared details from their conversation, including regarding Arpaio’s campaign that falsely claims former President Barack Obama’s birth certificate is fake.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has described American Free Press as "an anti-Semitic conspiracy-oriented newspaper" that attracts "the most vitriolic anti-Semites." The New York Times wrote that the late Willis Carto, who helped found the publication, “used lobbying and publishing to denigrate Jews and other minorities and galvanize the movement to deny the Holocaust."
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Arpaio has given interviews to the publication in prior years. The disgraced sheriff granted an interview to the late writer Victor Thorn in 2014, as the Phoenix New Times noted. Thorn -- who died in 2016 -- penned the books The Holocaust Hoax Exposed: Debunking The 20th Century's Greatest Fabrication and MADE IN ISRAEL: 9-11 And The Jewish Plot Against America, which were both promoted by American Free Press.
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Trump pardoned Arpaio on August 25 after he was convicted of criminal contempt of court for deliberately violating a court order regarding his racial profiling of undocumented immigrants. As the Phoenix New Times has documented, Arpaio -- who was voted out of office last November -- had “fostered horrendous jail conditions, reckless police operations, and carried out personal vendettas against political rivals and members of the press. ... Foremost, he and his deputies have violated the Constitutional rights of brown-skinned U.S. citizens and have committed outright cruelty against the undocumented.”
American Free Press published a September 15 piece by roving editor Mark Anderson stating that it “recently” interviewed Arpaio to combat “the false narrative that Arpaio had engaged in ‘racial profiling’ when his deputies apprehended illegal alien suspects.” The piece shared details from their conversation, including regarding Arpaio’s campaign that falsely claims former President Barack Obama’s birth certificate is fake.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has described American Free Press as "an anti-Semitic conspiracy-oriented newspaper" that attracts "the most vitriolic anti-Semites." The New York Times wrote that the late Willis Carto, who helped found the publication, “used lobbying and publishing to denigrate Jews and other minorities and galvanize the movement to deny the Holocaust."
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Arpaio has given interviews to the publication in prior years. The disgraced sheriff granted an interview to the late writer Victor Thorn in 2014, as the Phoenix New Times noted. Thorn -- who died in 2016 -- penned the books The Holocaust Hoax Exposed: Debunking The 20th Century's Greatest Fabrication and MADE IN ISRAEL: 9-11 And The Jewish Plot Against America, which were both promoted by American Free Press.
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