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Edition · August 27, 2017

The Daily Fuckup — August 27, 2017

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Closing take

The pattern was familiar even then: Trump made a maximalist move, defenders tried to rebrand it as strength, and the rest of the political system read it as reckless favoritism. On August 27, 2017, the Arpaio pardon was still the cleanest symbol of that habit—legal contempt wrapped in culture-war applause, then handed to the public as if the blowback were somebody else’s problem.

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Trump’s Arpaio pardon keeps drawing fire from his own party

Pardon backlash Confidence 5/5
★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

A day after Trump pardoned former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the backlash was still building and it was no longer coming only from Democrats. Republicans who usually bend themselves into pretzels for Trump were openly calling the move out of bounds, and legal critics said the pardon sent the worst possible message about contempt of court and racial profiling. The political problem for Trump was not just the pardon itself but the fact that the cleanup job was getting worse, not better, with every defense he offered.

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