THE 1999 PHONY ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO

In case you've been living under a rock or just can't stand to see Trump or hear his voice. Trump pardon famous racial profiling white racist Joe Arpaio on Friday as Hurricane Harvey was approaching Texas. And TrumpleRacistSkin said he did it at that time because he knew television ratings would be high then....because of the storm.

Yes, he's that much of a lowlife.  And lowlife's love company. As bad as I thought "Sheriff Joe" was before, I had no idea just how disgusting an individual Joe Arpaio was until yesterday. 

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"In one infamous case, people working under Arpaio
staged an assassination attempt against him in order to boost his popularity — framing an innocent man in the process.

[James Saville] spent four years in jail waiting to clear his name and eventually received a $1.1 million settlement."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/08/28/trump-defends-pardon-of-former-arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio/

In 2004, victim James Saville’s family sued Arpaio for $10 million, after Saville was found not guilty of attempting to kill the sheriff. The county recently settled with Saville for an undisclosed amount. It only had to pay the above amount out of public coffers; its insurance policy covered the rest.

Before you wish that you could collect $1 million by getting framed for Arpaio's murder, consider that Saville spent four years in county jail, awaiting trial as a result of the made-up crime.

In 1999, Arpaio's staff rigged the entire fake assassination plot – just so he could get his mug on TV.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/a-phony-murder-plot-against-joe-arpaio-winds-up-costing-taxpayers-11-million-6629798