Ruben Gallego: ‘Donald Trump Is a Racist and He’s Pardoning Another Racist’ with Arpaio

RUSH EXCERPT:

GALLEGO: "The president doesn’t care about anybody. This president cares less about sheriff Joe like any other citizen. It has nothing to do with that. At the end of the day he’s just trying to set up, again, and erode the idea of the rule of law so he can end up pardoning other people. He didn’t go through the Normal doj process for pardoning. He didn’t get the recommendation from the department of justice to pardon sheriff Joe arpaio. He wants to erode the idea of pardons in general so he can go on and pardon his friends and allies who may have helped him on his campaign. That’s the most detrimental thing about this. I was with many of these young men and women in 2006 when we were protesting against sheriff Joe arpaio when we know there was abuse going on in his jails. We believed in the system. We believed that if we either got him out of office through the electoral process and/or went through the judicial process, eventually we would get justice. We did get justice, we voted him out. And then we thought when he got justice when he came through the judicial system. But then we have Donald Trump who thinks he’s above the law and that all his friends also get to be above the law. And by the way, that is a horrible thing. That is a horrible thing and a horrible message that any American president can send to political people as well as just, you know, in general all Americans, that you can be above the law as long as you are doing something that is, quote unquote, politically popular or if you back the right presidential candidate. This is just a further proof that the president is basically eroding all the most basic things about our American democracy. We’re binded by the Constitution. It’s the norms and the rule of law that have actually kept us together. He’s slowly eroding everything he can. This is one step further and basically eroding the idea of, you know, equal treatment under the law, because at the end of the day, all you have to do is be very popular and hope that the right president gets elected, and the next thing you know, you’ll get your pardon. And this is just a sad statement. But at the end of the day, it doesn’t surprise me, I’ll be honest. Donald Trump is a racist and he’s pardoning another racist. And this is just par for the course."