Timothy Birdnow

Here is popinjay Senator John McCain’s statement on President Trump's pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio:

""No one is above the law and the individuals entrusted with the privilege of being sworn law officers should always seek to be beyond reproach in their commitment to fairly enforcing the laws they swore to uphold. Mr. Arpaio was found guilty of criminal contempt for continuing to illegally profile Latinos living in Arizona based on their perceived immigration status in violation of a judge’s orders. The President has the authority to make this pardon, but doing so at this time undermines his claim for the respect of rule of law as Mr. Arpaio has shown no remorse for his actions.”"

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So the media's favorite senile uncle thinks this is a travesty, does he?

First, John McCain clearly thought he was above the law when he got caught in the Keating Five scandal. What was that, you ask?
It was dirty money stolen from Savings and Loan depositors by Charles Keating. According to Salem News:

"These five senators were accused of improperly intervening before the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) in 1987 on behalf of Charles Keating, chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was a target of a regulatory investigation by the FHLBB. The FHLBB subsequently backed off taking action against Lincoln. By failing to take action, Lincoln was able to operate for two more years until its collapse in 1989, at a cost of $2 billion to the federal government. Some 23,000 Lincoln bondholders were defrauded and many elderly investors lost their life savings.

McCain and Keating had become personal friends following their initial contacts in 1981, and McCain was the only one of the five senators with close social and personal ties to Keating. McCain considered Keating a constituent as he lived in Arizona. McCain, his family, and their baby-sitter made nine trips at Keating's expense, sometimes aboard Keating's jet. Three of the trips were made to Keating's luxurious retreat in the Bahamas. McCain did not pay Keating -- some $13,433 -- for some of these trips until years after the trips were taken, after he learned that Keating was under investigation. Between 1982 and 1987, McCain received $112,000 in political contributions from Keating and his associates. In addition, McCain's wife Cindy McCain and her father Jim Hensley, invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators. In 1989, the Phoenix New Times writer Tom Fitzpatrick called McCain the "most reprehensible" of the five senators.

The Keating Five were investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee. The Committee's work, however, was made difficult because at the time there was no specific rule governing the propriety of members intervening with federal regulators. During the investigation, McCain said, "I have done this kind of thing [intervene] many, many times," and said the Lincoln case was like "helping the little lady who didn't get her Social Security." In 1991, after a lengthy investigation, the Committee cleared McCain of impropriety but said he had exercised "poor judgment." Some of the Committee members were concerned that letting the senators off lightly would harm their own reputations. Nevertheless, the existing Senate rules did not specifically proscribe the actions taken by DeConcini, Riegle, Glenn, and McCain. After the finding, McCain admitted his poor judgment and would write in 2002 that attending the two April 1987 meetings with Keating was "the worst mistake of my life."

In January 1993, a federal jury convicted Keating of 73 counts of wire and bankruptcy fraud. Keating was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison but served just 50 months before the conviction was overturned on a technicality. In 1999, at age 75, he pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud. He was sentenced to time served."

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And the good senator then introduced campaign finance legislation to cover his dirty tracks, something sought by the Democrats.

He's been playing ball with the Democrats and news media ever since. Still-in-Saigon John talked his way out of deep trouble with Keating and still double talks.

So why, I ask, is McCain given a pass but fails to extend such courtesy to Sheriff Arpaio?

What did Arpaio do" He enforced Federal statutes, that's what he did. And a leftist judge, a Clinton appointee, didn't like it. Unlike John McCain, Arpaio was convicted for doing his job. McCain was let off for unethical and possibly illegal behavior for his own personal ends.

Yet McCain has always been an advocate of pardons - for millions of illegals who have invaded the United States and stolen jobs and social services. McCain has long advocated amnesty in any number of ways, and what is an amnesty but a pardon on a massive scale?

Where was John McCain when Barack Obama made innumerable dubious pardons? Here is an astonishingly long list of pardons given actual criminals by Obama, pardons that Mr. McCain did not concern himself with when they happened. He worried nary a wit when Obama pardoned the traitor Chelsea Manning or the terrorist Oscar Lopez.

And McCain dares, DARES to speak about the "rule of law" when he advocates for the lawlessness of illegal aliens! The President is clearly invested with the right to make such a pardon. The good Arizona Senator acknowledges this but seems unwilling to accept it.

John McCain has made a career out of attacking his own side to curry favor with the Democrats and the media. He is a two faced hypocrite, and one would think in his final days of life (and the prognosis for his type of brain cancer is poor) he would want to set some things right. Sadly, McCain sold his soul to ambition long ago.

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