Thursday, September 10, 2015 6:37:19 AM · by Cincinatus' Wife · 261 replies
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Posted on 09/10/2015 9:39:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump insisted on CNN this morning that he was just referring to Carly Fiorina’s personality in comments made to Rolling Stone about her face.
The exact passage from the extensive interview with the magazine:
With his blue tie loosened and slung over his shoulder, Trump sits back to digest his meal and provide a running byplay to the news. Onscreen, they’ve cut away to a spot with Scott Walker, the creaky-robot governor of Wisconsin. Praised by the anchor for his “slow but steady” style, Walker is about to respond when Trump chimes in, “Yeah, he’s slow, all right! That’s what we got already: slowwww.” His staffers at the conference table howl and hoot; their man, though, is just getting warm. When the anchor throws to Carly Fiorina for her reaction to Trump’s momentum, Trump’s expression sours in schoolboy disgust as the camera bores in on Fiorina. “Look at that face!” he cries. “Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!” The laughter grows halting and faint behind him. “I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not s’posedta say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?”
In another part of the article, Trump further says:
Then he pivoted to Carly Fiorina. “Carly was a little nasty to me — be careful, Carly! Be careful! But I can’t say anything to her because she’s a woman. . . . I promised that I wouldn’t say that she ran Hewlett-Packard into the ground. I said I wouldn’t say it! That her stock value tanked. That she laid off tens of thousands of people, and she got viciously fired. I said I will not say that. And that she then went out and ran against Barbara Boxer, and . . . lost in a landslide. And I said, ‘I. Will. Not. Say. That!’ ”
Fiorina was asked about the comments last night on Megyn Kelly’s Fox News show, and replied, “I’m not going to spend a single cycle wondering what Donald Trump means. But maybe just maybe I’m getting under his skin a little bit because I’m climbing in the polls.”
Scott Walker tweeted this morning: “Trump’s personal attacks against @CarlyFiorina are plain inappropriate and wrong. It’s time for these shameless attacks to end.”
Jeb Bush tweeted: “Trumps demeaning remarks are small and inappropriate for anyone, much less a presidential candidate. Carly & country deserve better. Enough.”
“The statement on Carly, I’m talking about her persona. Her persona is not going to be — she’s not going to be president,” Trump told CNN this morning. “And what she’s saying about my hair, I know that’s OK and you won’t defend me.”
“Carly had a terrible time in business. She destroyed a company. You have to get the report from Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of Yale. He’s the expert on Carly. It’s a disaster, and check out Lucent beforehand. So you have Ben saying what he said, you have Carly saying — these are two people that will not be president,” he continued.
Ben Carson was asked at a rally Wednesday how he differed from Trump. “Probably the biggest thing — I’ve realized where my success has come from and I don’t in anyway deny my faith in God,” Carson said. “My humility and the fear of the Lord are riches and honor and life and that’s a very big part of who I am. I don’t get that impression with him. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t get that.”
Trump said this morning that the neurosurgeon was “perhaps an OK doctor,” adding “you look at his faith and I think you’re not going to find so much.”
“All of a sudden he becomes this great religious figure. I don’t think he’s a great religious figure. I saw him yesterday quoting something and he was quoting on humility and it looked like he had just memorized it about two minutes before he made the quote. So, you know, don’t tell me about Ben Carson,” Trump said.
“…I have known Ben Carson, of him, for a long time. I never heard faith was a big thing until just recently when he started running.”
He has to be a little more careful. Not everything travels on a free pass.
Disgusting to hear people make fun, take shots at the looks of others. Actually heard women on the radio this morning who are Trump supporters, somewhat agreeing with him. IMHO, Carley Fiorina is a lovely lady, inside and out. Shame on Trump and anybody else who would even think to call into question her looks, her persona, etc. She’s a serious candidate for a serious office and deserves respect, as much as anybody. She’s got it from me.
Carly has been trash talking Trump for weeks since the My Gyn Crowley Kelly incident.
When Carly is criticizing you she makes faces, and her Persona shows thru on her facial expressions, like it does with Hillary.
I think this is the Persona comming thru with the Carly facial expressions.
No she looks OK otherwise get her started, gets worse looking.
But Politics aint beanball so if you take shots at Trump don’t expect the Shark not to bite you back.
Yeah yeah Carly is not THAT beautiful..
AND Donald does NOT have Presidential HAIR...
BUT Cruz DOES.. and is Ronaldus Maximus-y... besides..
OK so Carly ain’t no Playboy Bunnie. Look at Margret Thatcher, face doesn’t mean doodly.
Trump’s biggest fault is that sometimes when he engages mouth he disengages brain.
I really hope Cruz gets the nomination, but if Trump does I will vote for him inspite of his mouth.
I’d like to see Trump concentrate on Hillary, Obama and the mess the democrats have created.
He doesn’t need to whittle down other republicans.
These non-sensical attacks and comments about republican candidates accomplish nothing positive.
I’m beginning to believe that Trump’s popularity is near or at its peak and that other candidates will rise up.
Carly has been trash talking Trump for weeks since the My Gyn Crowley Kelly incident.
When Carly is criticizing you she makes faces, and her Persona shows thru on her facial expressions, like it does with Hillary.
I think this is the Persona comming thru with the Carly facial expressions.
You know Fiorina did worse against Barbra Boxer and Meg Whitman herself.
This is all just gossipy idiocy.
Trump’s irreverence is refreshing now, but that advantage has a certain rate of exponential decay. He needs to reel it in a little.
Trump has been trying to talk substance, but these dumb interviewers engage him in controversy.
HH gotcha. CC on Carly.
Trump talks about jobs, immigration, Planned Parenthood, the lousy Iran deal.
Its the media who uses Quotes from his competition to jin up
and rile up Donald.
Yeah! Me too! After he got to 20% they said 25% was his ceiling! After he got to 25% they said 30% was his ceiling. Now that he is at 32% I guess 35% is his ceiling! Should be dropping fast any day now!
Totally agree
I don’t like Carly’s face, and apparently she doesn’t either, or she wouldn’t have had it botoxed into oblivion.
Typical Trump insult. He walks them back if they are rightly seen the way he intends. He’s got no class and lots of foreign trophy wives.
You have low standards then. Fiorina is a RINO shill on the amnesty express. She's a traitor to the country inside and out.
I agree, but I don’t think he can. It’s instinctive of him to be brutally honest. He is so American in that regard. We are seeing the best and the worst of us, and as a Baby Boomer, let’s face it we’re a pretty spoiled bunch as well.
I don’t of anyone who can get away with what he says, or to whom he says it. Can you see any of the other candidates doing a Playboy interview or a Rolling Stone interview, or going on The View, or CNN or MSNBC?
His comments might turn off some, but they turn on others. The democrats out there are going to vote in large numbers for him because of what he’s said about Megyn Kelly, Fox and Carli and Bush.
I am predicting that he is going to win every singe state.
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