Hollywood Rips Trump for Joe Arpaio Pardon: ‘America Knowingly Elected a Racist President’

Posted on August 26, 2017

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio as a campaign event at the Roundhouse Gymnasium in Marshalltown, Iowa. Before Trump, there was Arpaio roiling Arizona politics and the nation's immigration debate. Trump hopes to win Arizona's primary Tuesday with the help of his fellow immigration hardliner (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
Several celebrities took to social media late Friday and slammed President Donald Trump for pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted in July of violating a federal court order not to detain suspected illegal immigrants.

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