Posted on 02/05/2016 7:23:22 PM PST by TBP
Carson’s team has yet to produce corroborating emails to prove their allegations. It still remains possible, given that reports just past midnight might suggest Carson may well drop out.
Speculation abounded Monday night that GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson might drop out of the race, after news broke that Carson was not sticking around in Iowa to wait out caucus results, nor heading directly to New Hampshire or South Carolina for the next primaries on the calendar.
The Carson campaign, now involved in another PR nightmare, had to dispel the rumors later today by blaming everyone but what the doctor ordered. His own supporters even complain about the campaign’s poor organization. And the cure to the political clap for Dr. Carson’s doomed campaign should have been to amputate Mr. Williams Armstrong Williams from staff long ago. The death knell Williams dealt Dr. Carson’s campaign occurred on January 22.
God morning :The unmitigated gall of Barry Bennett and Doug Watts: To attempt to curry favor with the Trump campaign…
Posted by Armstrong Williams on Friday, January 22, 2016
YEs.
Too late. I doubt this anyway. Everyone is all over the place with this story.
A federal investigation is needed ASAP.
/sarc.
This piece makes no sense and is unreadable.
I have no idea what happened beyond the fact that a mainstream news source - CNN - posted that Carson was going to return to Florida for a few days after the voting.
What kind of idiot campaign announces this before the votes are cast? I believe most people who follow politics and heard that would believe he was headed home for good with a 4th place finish (as projected).
This is big smoke for a little fire.
I cannot find, anywhere at that shaky site you linked to, where Armstrong ever said/tweeted/announced Carson’s possible suspension of his campaign.
I scrolled/read the article, at link, and didn’t see him state that.
This is Armstrong’s complete comment. What part in there says that Carson is calling it quits? I heard him say last night that he’s staying in all the way to Cleveland.
“God morning :
The unmitigated gall of Barry Bennett and Doug Watts: To attempt to curry favor with the Trump campaign by delivering Dr. Carson’s campaign infrastructure on a platter is nothing short of amazing. Dr. Carson has built the most substantial, comprehensive, and valuable grass roots communications infrastructure of any of the current Republican candidates. Despite fluctuations in the polls, Carson remains a beloved figure who draws adulation from throngs of people wherever he goes.
Watts and Bennett did a great service is helping to guide his campaign – a service for which they were amply compensated. But they do an equally great disservice by holding lectures, going in front of the media and betraying Carson in an attempt to curry favor with Trump.
It is not surprising that these former staffers seem to be auditioning for new jobs with the Trump campaign. After all, they are professional politicians who need to make a living; and there is no chance in hell they intend sit out the rest of this campaign season. But the way they have gone about advertising their availability begs a question: If they are so willing to throw Carson under the bus, what will they do to their next employer? I’m sure this fact – and its dire implications – will not be lost on any campaign that has the temerity to engage their services.
But just to make it extra clear: neither Bennett nor Watts has any influence whatsoever over who Dr. Carson may ultimately endorse in the primary should the occasion arise.”
This it really great for Marco Rubio! Every day that this story drags on is one more day of damage to Ted Cruz from the uncertainty of what his role was in this affair. Could it be that Armstrong Williams ran PSYOPS on the Cruz Campaign’s vaunted ex-CIA operatives?
Meet Chad C. Sweet, Ted Cruz’s campaign chairman, former DoD/CIA/Goldman Sachs/Homeland Security.
Sweet co-founded the Chertoff Group with former Bush and Obama administration Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff.
As a leader of the Chertoff Group, Sweet “advocated for expanding NSA metadata collection.”
http://www.chertoffgroup.com/bios/chad-sweet.php
Meet Ted’s ex-CIA PR guy, Dan P. Gabriel. Gabriel is involved in SIGINT aka interception - which is turned into propaganda. His twitter handle is @danpgabriel and he was one of the people pushing the angle that it was confirmed to the Cruz campaign that Carson was dropping out. After called out on the lie, the agent deleted the tweet and denies everything in typical spook fashion:
Breaking news? This is getting really old.
Carson’s best move to reenergizebhis campaign would be to get rid of Armstrong Williams. He reminds me of one of Black lives matter or Luey Farakan’s henchmen
Donald Duck said he doesn’t care about that anymore.
I guess that clears up why Ted apologized.
Wait.
Say what?
Dang....this is in Breaking News???
Lol.
More like Freaking News.
RE: The Carson campaign itself was causing these rumors.
The CNN post said that Dr. Carson was not carrying on to New Hampshire and South Carolina.
AS of today, Carson is nowhere to be found campaigning in New Hampshire ( although he is going for the debate ).
This website seems to be relying on the fraudulent posts of Cruz-guy Dan P. Gabriel in order to assert that it was Carson’s team that “leaked” Carson was suspending. Dan P. Gabriel DELETED that tweet, and then blamed his own rumor on the Carson campaign.
It is more likely at this point that it was the Ted Cruz campaign that “leaked” to CNN that Carson was dropping out, though, that said, CNN did not report that Carson was suspending. They only speculated on air, and Cruz’s campaign pushed the rumor even after Team Carson had pushed back.
Carson’s the one who said it was his staff member.....
Carson’s the one who said it was his staff member...
What did Carson say his staff member......???
Carson was in New Hampshire today according to his schedule
You got that right. :)
Oops, typo. I meant the Cruz guy deleted his tweet about having “sources” from the Carson campaign tell him Carson was out, and then blamed TRUMP for “spreading rumors”.
He closed out his twitter page immediately after other Twitter users spotted this deception.
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