In accepting the pardon, Joe Arpaio admits guilt.

[Ken Burch]

In pardoning him, Trump admits Arpaio's guilty.

No innocence, no victimhood.

[BBG]

1. Fuckers

Both of them

[malaise]

2. He was found guilty

Fuck him and the Con

[ck4829]

3. Arpaio couldn't stand the idea of being on the other side of the law

[Not Ruth]

4. And he was unlikely to have served any time, given that it was a first misdemeanor

I do not see the point

[leftynyc]

5. Nixon never admitted guilt

I don't know where you got the idea it was a necessary part of pardons but it's not so.

[Ken Burch]

7. You don't have to admit it out loud. The admission is implicit.

If you accept a pardon, you are effectively acknowledging that you committed a crime. If you'd committed no crime you wouldn't need to be pardoned.

When President Ford pardoned Richard Nixon in '74, there were bitter-end Nixon loyalists who were angry with Nixon for accrpting the pardon for that very reason: They had wanted Nixon to go to trial and fight to prove his innocence.

For the rest of his life after pardoning Nixon, Ford carried around a piece of paper in his pocket on which was written the words "accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt". Had Ford said those words in his pardon speech, there's a good chance he'd have won a term in his own right in 1976.

[leftynyc]

9. This slug doesn't give

a shit. He thinks he was wrongly prosecuted and merely thinks a wrong was made right. Degenerate Donnie thinks the same thing.

[Mr. Ected]

6. Admit it? He revels in it.

This was a victory for racism and lawlessness.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Arapaio is Trump's Oliver North.

He is a hero to their cause. Crooked, racists bastards that just keep getting away with breaking the law.

[Vinca]

10. It was all a pandering-to-the-base stunt anyway.

Arpaio wouldn't have spent one day in jail. It would have been a slap on the wrist at worst. It probably hurts Trump more than it helps Arpaio.