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The Daily

A New Path for Presidential Pardons

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

For decades, getting a presidential pardon in the United States required a cumbersome petition process and a long legal review. But those seeking pardons from President Trump are using a very different strategy. Guest: Campbell Robertson, a national correspondent for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0

From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the day.

0:10.0

Today.

0:12.0

For decades, getting a presidential pardon required a cumbersome petition process and a lengthy legal review.

0:20.0

Under President Trump, those seeking pardons are using a very different strategy.

0:32.0

It's Thursday, August 9.

0:38.0

Trump took office and people didn't know what he was going to do about pardons.

0:43.0

In fact, I think a lot of folks didn't think he would do much at all.

0:47.0

And then August in his first year.

0:52.0

President Trump is making news over the possibility of pardoning former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

0:57.0

Kind of out of nowhere, he floated the notion that he would pardon former Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

1:07.0

Campbell Robertson is a national reporter for the Times.

1:10.0

Why am I doing this? Sometimes I ask myself. In this corny, I'm going to tell you why I do it.

1:16.0

The people want me as the sheriff.

1:19.0

Arpaio is this hero among the hardwright.

1:22.0

We just arrested 31 more recently coming into our country illegally.

1:27.0

He was a former sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.

1:31.0

And we're going to continue to raid businesses that hire illegals.

1:35.0

The majority have false identification, so I'm not stopping doing my job.

1:41.0

And the Justice Department of Fures before had described him as violating constitutional rights

1:48.0

like pretty much no other law enforcement officer, and mainly at Latinos.

1:53.0

Okay, I don't know what a deal legal looks like.

1:57.0

I'm an equal opportunity law enforcement guy. We lock up everybody.

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