After weeks of speculation whether Trump would pardon sheriff Joe Arpaio – who on July 31 was found guilty of defying a court order barring officers from stopping Latino drivers on suspicion they were in US illegally, bringing his tenure as a crusader against illegal immigration to an end – as he hinted at the recent Phoenix rally, or if he would, as the NYT claimed, not interfere in the legal process, moments ago – in what is now a record-setting Friday night for the sheer barrage