Joe Arpaio vows to bring back "birtherism" if elected to U.S. Senate
SalonIf elected to the U.S. Senate, disgraced former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio said he would bring back his racist and debunked theory that former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. Arpaio also said in January that he still stands by his "birtherism" crusade against Obama, something that was championed by President Donald Trump for years. Arpaio, who was convicted of criminal contempt in federal court last year for ignoring a judge's order to stop immigration raids, was quietly pardoned by Trump late on a Friday night last August amid deadly hurricanes slamming into the nation's southern coast. As a former sheriff of Maricopa County, he forced inmates to live in brutal conditions and "uninsulated outdoor tent cities and wear pink underwear to humiliate them," Salon has previously reported.
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