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On March 19 2016 08:35 farvacola wrote:
Score one for the Hulkster.



Jury Awards Hulk Hogan $115 Million in Gawker Sex-Tape Suit

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County is relishing the opportunity to host Donald Trump at a rally on his own turf Saturday — and serve as the muscle at the same time.

After taking a few days off from his long streak of attention-grabbing rallies, Trump is cranking back up this weekend, and he has scheduled one of his events right in the backyard of the long-serving and controversial Arizona sheriff.

“Here I’m gonna be kinda wearing two hats — in charge of the security there in the town and also participating, I would imagine, with Trump in the rally, so it makes it interesting,” Arpaio said in an interview with POLITICO, adding that it “is going to be a lot of fun taking care of business there.”

Arpaio, who officially endorsed Trump in January, said he’s expecting protests at Saturday’s event. But the 83-year-old sheriff, who has repeatedly been accused of racial profiling Hispanic residents, says Trump’s clashes pale in comparison to his own.

“I’ve had demonstrations against me constantly,” he said. “He hasn’t had that many demonstrators, compared to me.”
While it’s not clear how much of a protest presence there will be for the midday rally, some of Trump’s recent events have descended into chaos. Just last week, his rally in Chicago was abruptly canceled after skirmishes started breaking out both inside and outside the venue. In North Carolina, a Trump supporter was arrested after sucker-punching a protester and later saying, “The next time we see him, we might have to kill him.”

Trump’s critics have accused him of inciting violence. They point to comments in which he told supporters that he’ll pay the legal bills of anyone attacking protesters and warned that “riots” will break out if he’s unfairly denied the Republican nomination. He’s also lamented not being able to punch back at protesters and reminisced about the old days, when “they’d be carried out on a stretcher.”

But Arpaio said Trump is getting a bad rap.

“They always repeat little minor things, what he said in the rally, ‘oh you gotta carry him out on a stretcher, blah, blah, blah,’” Arpaio said. “I just thought that when you have a rally, you’re supposed to rally people and kind of say things that are exciting.”

Arpaio said in the interview late Thursday that he wasn’t yet sure what role he will play on stage in Saturday’s rally in Fountain Hills, which is about 40 minutes outside of Phoenix proper.

The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for confirmation that Arpaio would be speaking at the event, but Arpaio’s office confirmed he would at least be in attendance.

On March 19 2016 08:50 GreenHorizons wrote:


He said he got 4 minutes and he got 4 minutes.

EDIT: This is why I don't take your complaints about attacks seriously (among other reasons).

On March 19 2016 09:21 KwarK wrote:
Between that ruling and the jail time for a guy behind the Fappening it's possible people may work out that it's not okay to put sex videos of other people on the internet. Maybe.

On March 19 2016 09:37 ticklishmusic wrote:


that attitude was fucking awful

its not the first time hes dodged a question for whatever reason

he has like zero composure

i dont take you seriously at all, because to do so would depress me tbh

On March 19 2016 11:14 Doodsmack wrote:
Just read Trump's tweets for the past 2 days. Nothing but ad hominem, child grade ad hominem at that. Now going after the WSJ because he didn't like something about an editorial he saw. And calling Megyn Kelly "sick" and "crazy" repeatedly. This from the guy whose critics "will have a tough time" if he gets into office.

It is almost an insult to your own intelligence if you support this guy.

On March 19 2016 11:23 wei2coolman wrote:

There's a reason why he speaks at a 4th grade reading level.

People like Harry Potter, right? What's so wrong with the reading level of Trump's speech?

On March 19 2016 11:43 oBlade wrote:
People like Harry Potter, right? What's so wrong with the reading level of Trump's speech?

On March 19 2016 11:46 wei2coolman wrote:

"it's not presidential." whatever the fuck that means.

Doesn't matter ,it works, and it makes for hilarious memes.

On March 19 2016 11:47 m4ini wrote:


It's rather easy to understand, but if it makes you feel better to pretend not to see the problem, that's fine.