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The hold that Trump has on people is amazing. Ben Carson says it doesn't trouble him at all that Trump plagiarized his op-ed. If this had of been anyone else there would have been criminal charges brought.

Ben Carson says it doesn't bother me at all.

1 posted on 03/18/2016 10:16:34 AM PDT by Spunky
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Is this the same Ben Carson who whined from coast to coast about what Ted Cruz supposedly did to him?


30 posted on 03/18/2016 10:29:55 AM PDT by lee martell
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Ok that’s it. Communism please. /s


32 posted on 03/18/2016 10:31:12 AM PDT by Eddie01
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Spunky, go ahead and file criminal charges then
Get it off your chest


33 posted on 03/18/2016 10:31:22 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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Submit to the Trump, all else is futility and ridiculousness.


35 posted on 03/18/2016 10:31:48 AM PDT by QuigleyDU
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Submit to the Trump, all else is futility and ridiculousness.


36 posted on 03/18/2016 10:31:49 AM PDT by QuigleyDU
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The Saipan Tri­bune, a local news out­let in the North­ern Mar­i­ana Islands, reported that a local Repub­li­can named Jason Osborne, who worked for Car­son before join­ing Trump’s team, was involved in craft­ing the op-ed.

“Pla­gia­riz­ing ideas, when you accept those ideas, isn’t pla­gia­rism, it’s just flat­tery,” Osborne told the out­let.

https://hotgas.net/2016/03/trump-appears-heavily-plagiarized-op-ed-carson/


38 posted on 03/18/2016 10:32:25 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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My top choice is Ted Cruz, but this is a non-issue. Someone wrote that article for Trump, Trump reviewed it without being told of the plagiarism, and the copying, if any, does not reflect on Trump’s fitness for office. I hope he will delegate minor tasks while in Office. I also hope he will review the details, but that will not catch plagiarism of good ideas.


39 posted on 03/18/2016 10:32:38 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to meand over an is worthless." - Scalia)
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this exact article was posted 2 days ago. you anti-trumpers are recycling your BS AGAIN.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3410131/posts

But please let me too reiterate some more of Trump’s “sins”, namely I heard that Trump pulled the pigtails of one of his little playmates on the playground at recess when he was in first grade.

On the other hand, only a few weeks ago, Trump singularly upset the whole election apple cart! That’s what he’s done!

Trump set the national agenda by opposing illegal immigration and bringing up other issues that the GOPe and their allies desperately wanted to avoid, and now they can’t. No one would even be talking about illegal immigration today if Trump hadn’t forced the issue.

The GOPe was not prepared for this, and as a consequence they don’t have a clue about what to do, hence their almost universal collapse into a pile of quivering jello, flip-flopping like a bag of Mexican jumping beans dumped on a hot griddle. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump has exposed those who pretend to be conservative but are really just fronts for big money establishment campaign donors who purchase their candidates with campaign “donations”. Trump has ripped the facade off of the fake “conservative” websites that are really fronts for the modern aristocracy as part of the plan to fool the people into thinking at least SOME of the institutions are on their side.That’s what Trump has done.

Trump, by actually being a real man, has exposed the other candidates and their allies for the weak little sniveling sellouts that they really are.

Trump’s vociferous truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media have been the catalyst that triggered a massive revolt amongst conservative voters who are infuriated at the GOPe Congress doing absolutely ZERO to stop Obama’s agenda, and suddenly the GOP RINO leadership is in full blown panic mode and in full blown retreat, and the SMALL conservative House contingent smelt blood in the water, took heart, and charged in against a weakened, frightened and paralyzed GOPe leadership, and Boehner was taken out as a sacrificial lamb. That’s what Trump has done.

Without Trump taking on the enemedia and beating them, the first time this has been done since Reagan, Cruz and the rest would be quivering before their concerted assaults and spending all of their time apologizing for having accidentally strayed into the shallows of political correctness and saying something Black Lives Matter or the Southern Poverty Law Center hate groups hated with consequent massive amplification by the enemedia as they pounded their PC drums against the GOP. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump is absolutely correct when he says that without Trump in the race, everything would be same-ol’, same-ol. The Joyful Tippy-Toes Turtle would be creeping closer to the finish line, Boehner would still be safely ensconced as Speaker, and there would be no mention of illegal immigration are any of the issues surrounding it by any politician in either party, other than possibly how critical it would be to pass immigration “reform”. That’s what Trump has done.

After only four state primary elections, Trump has already taken out all but one GOP RINO candidate. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump has used the enemedia against itself, exposed FNC for being Rupert Murdoch’s personal propaganda channel, and made the other cable networks realize they can grow their ratings by playing more fairly. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump has attracted the “big tent” coalition that the GOPe always professed it wanted, but never really did, by appealing equally to all demographic groups, whether they be rich or poor, educated or uneducated, old or young, male or female, blue collar or white collar, north or south, east or west. That’s what Trump has done.

The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another falling domino, toppling due to the Trump Effect, because Trump’s unabashed truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses which emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump’s coalition of voters have panicked the Senate into growing a backbone and standing up to Obama by refusing to consider any Supreme Court nominee until the next President is in office. That’s what Trump has done.

And our nation wouldn’t even be having ANY of these conversations about illegal immigration and the myriad of other Obammunist issues destroying our country if it wasn’t for Trump. Instead, we’d simply be debating which RINO, GOPe squish would be least likely to be stomped by Hillary, and the GOPe would once again be exhorting the “base” about how critical it is for us to once again vote for the “lesser of two evils”, that is, vote for the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin. That’s what Trump has done.

And do note that ALL of the oligarchs and plutocrats are frightened to death of Donald Trump because the billionaires and millionaires can’t buy him like all of the other politicians they routinely purchase, because Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, and the kommie media is frightened to death of him because he isn’t afraid of them either, the bottom line being that Donald Trump can not be controlled by the rich and powerful or the corrupt media, so for anyone who is truly for campaign finance reform and wants to take money out of politics, voting for Trump is the only reasonable choice. That’s what Trump has done.

Donald J. Trump is the very epitome of the anti-social-justice-warrior, and he’s galvanized an entire nation of the like minded who have been desperately waiting for years for a leader who could lead them from the desert of political correctness.

President Trump is really the last hope for this country: if he can’t undo any of the damage wrought by the Obammunists, the U.S.A. is done.

So least we forget, the above, and much more, are called “The Trump Effect”.


41 posted on 03/18/2016 10:34:38 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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This is all they have?


42 posted on 03/18/2016 10:35:43 AM PDT by stanne
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It’s a Peterman!


43 posted on 03/18/2016 10:35:51 AM PDT by Defiant (After 8 years of Chump Change, it's time for Trump Change!!)
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“If this had of been anyone else there would have been criminal charges brought.”

Dude, get a grip. Plagiarism is not a crime.

Further, this newly concocted “strict scrutiny” definition of plagiarism is intended only to allow unwarranted accusations against the enemies of the left.

How many ways are there to say, “the patriotism exhibited by our brothers and sisters in the Territories of American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands”?

Would he have cleared that bogus “plagiarism” standard if he had written, “the demonstrated patriotism of our sisters and brothers in the Territories of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa”?

“Plagiarizing ideas, when you accept those ideas, isn’t plagiarism, it’s just flattery,” Osborne told the outlet.

Congratulations on jumping on board the Hillary rug-muncher bandwagon.

BTW, you can enhance your credibility by writing “if this had been...” vice “if this had of been...”


44 posted on 03/18/2016 10:36:18 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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I am a Cruz supporter and I have no problem with this.

We need to unite like the Tennessee delegation has.

It would have been better if Trump credited Carson for his advice.


46 posted on 03/18/2016 10:38:52 AM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kin Jung mentally Ill about proliferation)
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In paragraph 12 we find this...

The Saipan Tribune, a local news outlet in the Northern Mariana Islands, reported that a local Republican named Jason Osborne, who worked for Carson before joining Trump’s team, was involved in crafting the op-ed.

Did Trump plagiarize, or did a staff member?

Oh well..., another day another creepy attempt from the politics of personal destruction department.

49 posted on 03/18/2016 10:39:38 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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The idea that Trump actually wrote the op-ed is the funny part. In fact I doubt that Carson did either. Both probably hired the same guy to crank out the column and he cut some corners.


50 posted on 03/18/2016 10:40:07 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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So? Trump said it himself: "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters"
58 posted on 03/18/2016 10:44:40 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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Why didn’t Trump get one of those ‘great people’ he’s gonna hire to change it enough so that it wasn’t so obviously plagiarized?


60 posted on 03/18/2016 10:45:10 AM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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So?

Do da name “Biden” mean anythin’ to ya,Daily Caller?

Don’t remember seeing anything about VICE PRESIDENT Idiot lately.

So, why not STFU?


67 posted on 03/18/2016 10:49:35 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Is that all you got?

Dr. Carson threw his hat in the ring, and came out on the short end. So it goes.

Trump recognized the real value that Dr. Carson can provide to an administration and extended an olive branch to him. These are the good guys, stop trying to tear them down.


78 posted on 03/18/2016 10:59:30 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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If this had of been anyone else there would have been criminal charges brought.

Calm down, girl.

82 posted on 03/18/2016 11:06:59 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The Democrats are going into full Alinsky mode against Trump.)
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Oh, please. Desperate much? Are you aware that Carson endorsed Trump?


86 posted on 03/18/2016 11:24:33 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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