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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Lets go further with facts for some on here who support cruz and seem unable to address facts.
Cruz came third in 3 important swing states.
Never won a single county in two of those FL, VA.
Yep sure thing Clinton is quaking at the thought of seeing a guy who has come third in 3 swing states and can’t even win a single county in two of them.
sarc
There is no “if” about it. I’m sure you saw the thread posting Pecker’s contributions to Mrs Cosby so don’t pretend there is any doubt about this.
I don't have much respect for the peddling of sex rumors in tabloids. But I have less for pointless vulgarity and taunting between the Trump and Cruz camps.
Not saying all of the points each side bring up are pointless and vulgar. Not saying that one side does it and the other doesn't, both sides have been making both thoughtful posts, and some thoughtless vulgar posts like the one above.
Just picking your post as an example. You are not the worst (I think my posts are wonderful for example ;-) ). And I realize you probably are reacting to something somebody else said and pissed you off and such. But it all adds nothing to the debate as to who to support, it is just about mocking other people who will get mad and mock you back. Let us not act like the left here people.
Trump didn’t have to leak allegations. I am sure the creative writers at the National Enquirer can save their ol’ buddy the trouble.
Very well said .
If we are to have a debate then stop the bots and name calling, post facts, and have an honest debate.
Just throwing out garbage doe snot add anything to this site in my opinion of course.
The delusion is yours. The National Enquirer has slammed every GOP candidate except Trump (the Hillary (for senate) Donor). See a little clearer now?
I think, yeah, she probably was involved with Cruz, but I'm officially neutral until it's proven.
I suppose it really doesn't matter that much to me, other than entertainment value. I'm probably not voting for Cruz under any circumstances.
However... mistress or not, her commentary has been over-the-top biased.
We’ll see. I guess it depends on how things turn out this year.
In one of Trump's books, Trump basically tells Jimmy Carter than Reagan was a con artist.
Records Show Scant Reagan-Trump Ties
Trump Tells Joan Rivers Reagan Tax Cuts Were Disaster That Hirt Economy
Shocking!
The story and a picture of them with Ronnie was posted here, find it if you want. I don’t really care.
BTW can you explain how a man who has gotten 1/3 of Trump’s total votes from a semi-conservative electorate could possibly win with a semi-socialist one?
Please explain this to me.
In addition show me how Cruz can win delegates from the states left to vote for the nomination. NY, NJ, CA, Ore, Wash, wisc and Penns. Trump only needs 52-57% of their delegates. Explain how it is that he doesn’t get them and more.
I don’t understand your thinking when these things seem so clear.
If you’re trying to pin the demise of the Carson candidacy on Trump, I suggest you go look at Ted Cruz’s good buddy, Amanda Carpenter’s tweets on Feb. 1, 2 full hours before the story “broke” on CNN, where she said Carson was suspending his campaign after Iowa.
Ronald Reagan is another example. He is so smooth and so effective a performer that he completely won over the American people, Trump wrote. Only now, nearly seven years later, are people beginning to question whether there’s anything beneath that smile. - 1987 D Trump, Art of the Deal
....this unnamed person....according to a reliable source.
Enough already!! Make it stop!
And Cruz told Jeff Roe to get the pics and make the ad.
Stupid, stupid conspiracy. Trump has no reason to push this story when he will have enough delegates to get the GOP nomination by their CURRENT rules. (We all know they’re going to try some last-minute rule changing BS to deny Trump the nomination, but this will backfire on them horribly.)
Cruz is irrelevant at this stage, and Trump is rightfully regarding him as such.
Since the issue is Cruz philandering, does ANYONE truly think that ALL of the accusations are false?
The rest of the GOP field was a target rich environment. Two who weren’t even eligible, one who had never run anything bigger than a hospital department, one who ran a major corporation into the ground, one who makes a dishrag look charismatic, a couple who could garner NO support (Huck and RS), Bush looking like a big guppy, some there just for the campaign contributions. Trump is a towering figure in that menagerie.
The only thing I'm seeing is that you are desperate to grasp at anything that will keep Cruz above the fray. That is called being delusional.
No, in 1999 He registered as an Independent. In 2001, he registered as a Democrat. Since 2009, he switched three times, I think.
It’s like he’s trying to 1984 the whole primary and blame everything done by Cruz on Trump. Deflection has left the building. Now its denial. I can’t wait until we get to acceptance.
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