Convicted criminal and noted racist Joe Arpaio said this week at the Western Conservative Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, that while he’s mostly shut his piehole about his racist and debunked birther lie that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the U.S., he plans to resurrect it should he become the next U.S. senator from Arizona:
“I talked about another thing that made a little news,” Arpaio said. “I don’t talk about it anymore—until I become the U.S. senator…but that’s something to do with a document. If I ask you guys—I’m a nothing now, but if I was still the sheriff I could ask for your birth certificate.”
“So I’m kind of dropping that right now,” he said, “but I’m going to tell you something: 100 percent we proved that’s a fake document. One hundred.”
Joe has one thing right: he is indeed nothing now after getting his ass handed to him during the last election and nearly ending up in the slammer after disobeying a federal judge’s order to stop racially profiling brown drivers. It’s not clear if he would have gotten any jail time, and we’ll never know because he became the very first person to be pardoned by the birther-in-chief, Donald Trump. Birds of a feather racist together.
There’s plenty of speculation that Arpaio’s long-shot run is nothing more than a fundraising ploy—and he does love his publicity stunts, the more grotesque the better—so this latest statement from him could just be another way to get himself another headline. So here you go, Joe, courtesy of a Mexican here legally. But don’t forget that since the Republican president of the United States worked orange-arm-in-arm with Arpaio to spread the ugly lie that is birtherism, the former Maricopa County sheriff is no longer the fringe of his party.
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