SHERIFF ARPAIO STAGED AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST HIMSELF TO WIN AN ELECTION

Remember when Roger Stone helped to buy the 1980 election for Reagan with a $125k bung from deep, dark CIA agent Roy Cohn?

Well, the man who Bomber Trump just pardoned, Sheriff Arpaio, staged an assassination attempt against himself in 1999 in order to drum up sympathy so he could win an election. Curiously, the framed dupe's name is James Saville! Saville sued Arpaio for $10 million, won, but was awarded only just over $1 million.

But get this: it was the local taxpayer, not Arpaio, who paid the damages!!

I beg your pardon?

Is this not 'fake news'?

Nope.

Arpaio once staged an assassination attempt to win sympathy, then framed a man for it. Taxpayers paid the damages. https://t.co/sS2Kp6Nlwu

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) 26 August 2017