ABC Panel: Trump’s Pardon ‘Decimating’ U.S. Institutions, ‘Law and Order’

Nicholas Fondacaro | August 27, 2017
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In a controversial and questionable move the Friday before Hurricane Harvey struck the coast of Texas, President Trump pardoned former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio who was charged with defying a court order not to racially profile. The action set the liberal media into a tailspin. And during Sunday’s This Week on ABC, the stacked panel claimed Trump thought he was above the rule of law and was stoking racial divisions.

One of the most vocal and hyperbolic of Trump’s dissenters on the panel was pretend-Republican Matthew Dowd. “Donald Trump in his desire to destabilize the status quo … Has gone out of his way to decimate the common standards and the attributes of our country and the institutions of our country,” he decried to moderator/Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos.

Charlottesville was a demonstration of on how much we need a president that can heal, that can bring the country together and unify, and not benefit from racial divisions in this,” Dowd continued to rant. “And as and Donald Trump, one after another after another, decimates those institutions, we have an inability as a country to unify and fix it.

According to Dowd, the crisis that was Donald Trump just proved how much the needed government in their lives. “Where the last two weeks have demonstrated how much we need the institutions of our government,” he lamented.

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