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.

In addition to slamming Trump, ABC Commentator Roland Martin was eager to smear the “shameful” evangelicals who supported him. “What is more shameful, are these conservative evangelicals who stand with Trump, who do not condemn inhumane treatment from Arpaio,” he spat as he proceeded rattled off names of noted Christian leaders. “They are more focused on the p-r-o-f-I-t of the faith, not the p-r-o-p-h-e-t. Be prophetic voices who lead!”

A little further into the program, Stephanopoulos started to parrot Democratic lawmakers and claimed he could hear a dog whistle in the Arpaio pardon. “[It] was a signal to anyone who might be a target of Robert Mueller’s investigation, ‘I've got your back,’” he told Obama lackey Jen Psaki.

Psaki obviously agreed with Stephanopoulos’ Democratic talking point and began to claim Trump thought the law didn’t apply to him:

So it just furthers this belief that he lives above the law. That he doesn’t think that he’s all powerful. That the checks and balances that have been in place for decades, hundreds of years, don't apply to him. And that's concerning to people because people suspect there could be a need for more pardons to come for over political allies.

Dowd, eager to get the last word before the commercial, mocked Trump for “denting” the rule of law while claiming to be the “law and order candidate.” “He ran on this law and order candidate and has done his very best to try to dent the law and order of our country and the rule of law,” he quipped.

Transcript below: