Yesterday Trump called Politico dishonest. Today he is spreading their Ben Carson lie.

Red State ^ | October 6, 2015 | southernconstitutionalist

[Cincinatus' Wife]

RedState's own Leon Wolf did a great job exposing the Politico story about Ben Carson and West Point as a lie. Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel is also churning out great information on Twitter regarding the story.

I want to focus on what Donald Trump is doing with the story, however.

Yesterday, November 5, Donald Trump had this to say about Politico:

Look, Politico is so dishonest in so many different things. This Politico website or whatever the hell they call it, I mean, they write about me. We don't deal with them anymore because the level of dishonesty is incredible.

Today, November 6, Donald Trump is spreading the false Politico story about Ben Carson. Below is one of the several Trump Tweets citing the Politico piece.

What an incredible turnaround. It appears Trump is willing to do whatever it takes to destroy Carson, who is poised to disrupt his position as GOP frontrunner.

Yesterday, Trump seized on the silly CNN investigation of Carson's childhood. According to Trump, Carson's childhood might be a "total fabrication.?

Ironically, much of Trump's support is due to the perception that he tells the truth and shuns the mainstream media. It is now clear that he will abandon that notion when it suits him politically.

[dforest]

Trump is a fierce competitor. He is probably used to no other way.

[Cold Heat]

I like Trump, and I support Trump and if anyone has more love for America than Trump,

Ummmmmm..... Nevermind...

[Cold Heat]

And I highly doubt Westmoreland had the power, or would even do an end run around admittance standards by “offering” a scholarship upfront.

Carson only said that he met him. He said nothing nor claimed any connection between Westmoreland and the ROTC offer.

[HarleyLady27]

Ummmmmm..... Nevermind...

Good Idea!!!

[Cold Heat]

Yeah it is....

[HarleyLady27]

I meant for you NOT to attack me....good idea!!!

[Lazamataz]

Your Trump Derangement Syndrome offers a poor prognosis for you when he becomes the nominee.

[erod]

Thanks, it would just not be wise to attack Carson now, the way he’s going he’ll be out of the race by Christmas.

[Cold Heat]

I am trying really hard.......lol

[Albion Wilde]

you have to admit having to prove you tried to stab a relative with a knife only to have the blade break off on his belt buckle and seriously considering attacking your mother with a hammer are odd things to brag about.

Those incidents ostensibly occurred when he was 13 years old, and he began telling them in 1997 or so in his first autobiography to illustrate the redemptive power of God. They were not bragging; they were illustrations of how God can reorder a disordered life.

Now they are being flung at him by the unChristian, unforgiving secular media, who completely miss the point of how a disadvantaged black kid could turn his life around, graduate from Yale, become a brain surgeon and seek to inspire other struggling youths. It really is a witch hunt.

I say this and he is not my candidate, but he is someone who has earned respect, and this Palinization is despicable. I'm disappointed in Trump's contributions as well.

[Albion Wilde]

a pyramid is... a large building constructed in a style that evolved over a period of time but can be seen in many parts of the world. A big building is what you might use to store a large amount of grain. The theory is that they were developed for both purposes...

The pyramid shape is both difficult for an invading army to knock down and also has long been believed to have preservative properties for food storage, among other things.

[tennmountainman]

Are you saying the ROTC offered a guarantee scholarship to Carson?

[Albion Wilde]

Saying he was "offered" a scholarship to West Point is an untrue statement. Big difference in "encouraged" and "offered".

You're really off base hammering this point to death, especially since Carson wrote about it almost 20 years ago in an entirely different context. Your pick'n'peckin' sounds like the hysterical Democrat media who screeched about Sarah and Todd Palin's $150,000 clothing rental budget for the 2008 race; completely ignoring the $140,000 PAID and WASTED by the Obama campaign on his phony Greek-column stage set for his nomination speech, the one where his worshippers strew and trampled their small American flags all over the ground, that the cleanup crew then stuffed into green trash bags. Get some perspective here.

[Albion Wilde]

As a huge Trump supporter (check my posting history if you don't believe me), what Trump did yesterday was simply pathetic and disappointing. Trump essentially kicked Carson while he was down.

Ditto, ditto and ditto, Artcore.

[Albion Wilde]

as for Dubya's policies on illegals, he did nothing. My neighborhood (which is 1,100 miles from the Mexican border) turned into a crime-ridden barrio on Dubya's watch, well before Zero succeeded him

So did the area I grew up in on the DC border. You have to speak Spanish to order at the McDonald's there. And we had Martin "Sanctuary State" O'Malley to thank, as well.

[Albion Wilde]

Then the fact he keeps talking about it, trying to prove that he hit his mother with a hammer! It's just... bizarre.

It's understandable in context. See post 250 of this thread.

[Hawthorn]

>> When did General Westmoreland die? What year? <<

Dunno. But he was U.S. MACV CINC in Vietnam during 1967-68, and I can testify personally that he was very much alive then — because I was in Saigon during those years, and I saw him up close maybe half-a-dozen times.

>> When was Ben Carson in the ROTC? <<

The stories yesterday say Carson graduated from high school in 1969. That would be shortly after General Westmoreland came back stateside to serve as the Army’s Chief of Staff.

Anyway, I think it’s a total certainty that the Army’s Chief of Staff could get a kid like Carson into West Point almost instantly — for example, merely by whispering a few words into the ear of his nearest aide-de-camp.

>> what was his main goal for saying this stuff? <<

From the context of Carson’s discussing his choice of Yale over West Point, it seems to me that Carson probably was emphasizing his desire to go into medicine, as opposed to having an Army career.

[Hawthorn]

>> Yesterday Mark Levin said he cannot in good faith vote for a candidate who joins the media in trying to destroy Ben Carson <<

If you’re correct, doesn’t it mean that Mark Levin appears now to be on the fast-track towards becoming a non-person among the worshippers of a certain candidate? Say it ain’t so!

[HarleyLady27]

Thank you for your reply....

I did find out that Westmoreland passed in July of 2005...

The reasons I was asking is the mandatory draft at that time, all men had to sign up, so Carson used the ROTC for this purpose, and then used that maybe to go into medical school with paid education?

I am in no way support Carson, my man is Trump 100% but what I am supporting is America is better than to have a vile media that is ruining some peoples lives...I don't care about the color of you skin, I don't care about your belief in God, but what I do believe in is the Reputation of America, and as Americans I feel we all need to take down these people and rags that print this vile and disgusting dribble...America is the Greatest Nation on Earth and She doesn't need this type of trash in her borders...

[Albion Wilde]

This is a concerted effort to destroy Carson on a personal level - never mind as a candidate. He's a bad guy if he can't produce his victim, he's a bad guy if he keeps being forced to talk about how he took a hammer to his mother. And conservatives play right along with the media. So typical.

I totally agree. The admin already had his relatives targeted by the IRS after he gave that Prayer Breakfast rebuke to Obama. It would be "Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin" all over again.