Posted on 03/28/2016 2:28:58 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe
Old news, sorta....>snip<
...Now, as Carson overtakes Trump as the GOP front-runner, it appears Trump is getting help from a media outlet known for ending presidential candidacies: the National Enquirer. Earlier this month, the Enquirer published a cover story on Carson headlined Bungling Surgeon Ben Carson Left Sponge in Patients Brain! The article called Carson a White House wannabe and claimed he brandished a scalpel like a meat cleaver! It went on to quote angry former patients saying he botched surgeries that left them disfigured and in pain; one patient who sued Carson said he forgot to remove a surgical sponge from her brain after a procedure. His presidential campaign should be dead on arrival! Enquirer reporter Sharon Churcher wrote.
Trump and Enquirer CEO David Pecker have been friends for years. Theyre very close, said a source close to the Enquirer. In July 2013, Trump even tweeted that Pecker should become CEO of Time magazine, which at the time was being spun off from its corporate parent, Time Warner. Hed make it exciting and win awards!
This person also said that Trumps campaign was a source for the article: His campaign provided information that was used, he explained. A Trump friend said that in the days leading up to the articles publication Trump was telling people that Carson had a lot of medical malpractice suits and almost killed a guy.
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Ya think?
CRUZ GOOD! TRUMP BAD! CRUZ GOOD! TRUMP BAD!
Pbbth.
Reminds me about how many MSM folks talk about Trump U.
I’ll bite. Trump is friends with Pecker. So what?
So after multiple news organizations have already put the finger on Team Rubio for Ted Cruz’s affairs expose, we’re still arguing about whether or not Donald Trump is friends with the National Enquirer and is thus to blame? Ted Cruz knew he was lying when he blamed Trump. He knew since January that this story was out there and who was pushing it.
Trump knows a lot of people. He moves in interesting circles.
But it’s been pretty thoroughly shown that Rubio and his operators were behind publication of this particular article.
Hell, I once met JFK at a party. Does that mean that I’m responsible for the Vietnamese War?
Ouch.
You were the guy on the grassy knoll!
It means you know more conservatives than Trump.
Ted Cruz knows he is lying whenever he does it, which is often. I hope to get the chance to correct my 2012 mistake of voting for Cruz in 2018.
Trump loves Pecker. So do his supporters.
“CRUZ GOOD! TRUMP BAD! CRUZ GOOD! TRUMP BAD!”
Trump good, Cruz bad, Trump good, Cruz bad.
“This is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was, and they’ll continue singing it forever just because...This is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was, and they’ll continue singing it forever just because...”
Trump is standing on a mountain top literally fighting off attackers from all sides. Trump is a man. If Melania ever left him, I would line up to date him.
Trump can park his shoes under my bed any old time, but Ted Cruz not so much — I’d rather join a convent.
Good one Durbin. :-)
Isn’t it wonderful. At this rate we’re going to end up with Bush v. Hillary anyways because we can’t even unite on wanting an honest convention.
*Spit*
We are so screwed.
That's back when Rubio was in the race..
So, NE has attacked every R nominee in print running close to or ahead of Trump for a year but never an attack on Mr. Trump. I don’t believe that’s a coincidence. Your belief may differ.
I’m more concerned with Ted Cruz’s alliances with Glenn Beck, Jeb Bush, Neil Bush, Phil Gramm, Lindsay Graham and his tea of CFR people he has working for him. I am also wondering why Ted gave $10,000 to Glenn Beck in October of last year and then Glenn endorsed him just 2 weeks later. These are the things that bother me. I forgot to mention the Poppy Bush got Ted the Solicitor General position in Texas. Wake up people!
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