Name: Joe Arpaio: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Uploaded: 2018-09-08T00:22:14.000Z
Duration: 14 min 18 s
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the only genuine get out of jail free card.

Pardons are one of the most powerful tools available

to a President and they have been used controversially

And as we've mentioned before, Abraham Lincoln once

That's a pretty fuckable horse right there.

I'm just saying I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating apples.

-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) -The point here is...

While we were away Donald Trump issued his very first pardon

REPORTER: A legal lightning  bolt from President Trump

A presidential pardon for  Arizona's controversial,

anti-illegal immigration hardliner... Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

That's right. Donald Trump pardons Joe Arpaio.

"What if a decaying Russet potato somehow hated Mexicans?"

But let's look at that decision because if the President

of the United States is going to use his very first pardon

on someone this early in his term it really is worth knowing

and what the implications of this decision may be.

And you probably may have heard of Joe Arpaio before.

He is carefully cultivated an image over 25 years

as a hard-nosed Sheriff with unconventional methods

REPORTER 2: Joe Arpaio is known  as America's toughest Sheriff.

REPORTER 3: America's toughest  Sheriff, Joe Arpaio.

REPORTER 4: He's known as  "America's Toughest Sheriff,"

for his crackdowns on illegal  immigration and petty crime.

REPORTER 5: He brags about  making prisoners eat

bologna sandwiches so rotten,  the meat has turned green.

REPORTER 6: He makes his  inmates wear pink.

REPORTER 7: Inmates are forced  to wear striped prison garb

The pink underwear is fine but no one should be forced

They widen the silhouette. That is a fact.

-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) -That's a fashion fact.

Now, Arpaio didn't really mind that coverage.

He actually welcomed it, 'cause he loves being on camera

treating prisoners as props for a reality show.

And sometimes, literally, he actually had

a short-lived show called, "Smile... You're Under Arrest!",

Where people with outstanding warrants would be tricked

into appearing on a set, only to be pranked

Deputies of Sheriff  Joe Arpaio's office.

So, dude, you gotta smile, 'cause you're under arrest.

-For real! (LAUGHING) -(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

Now, for the record, even then that reference was 15 years old.

Which is a weird wiggity-whack thing to do, dog.

And look, tricking people into arrest for your own amusement

The only worst idea is not making Peter the bachelor.

-Look at that face. Are you idiots, ABC? -(AUDIENCE CHEERS, APPLAUDING)

If you are out there you are and shall forever remain

my bachelor, #PETERISMYBACHELOR #HESACATCHELOR

Now, Arpaio will honestly do anything for a camera

Frank Sinatra's My Way, the universal anthem

-of assholes everywhere. -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)

Watch him sing it for a documentary film crew.

-♪ The record shows ♪ -♪ ("MY WAY" INSTRUMENTAL BY FRANK SINATRA PLAYING) ♪

when Frank Sinatra heard that he actually climbed

rang the door bell and simply said... "No."

But, what does, "Doing it Arpaio's way," actually mean?

Because Trump didn't just pardon him, he touted Arpaio's support

on the campaign trail, even having him speak

So, Trump clearly doesn't seem to have any real problem

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