Posted on 11/06/2015 11:56:12 AM PST by VinL
Real-estate mogul Donald Trump piled on presidential rival Ben Carson after an explosive Friday story revealed he had fabricated his history with West Point.
"WOW, one of many lies by Ben Carson! Big story," Trump reacted on Twitter.
The Republican businessman also retweeted a series of supporters slamming Carson, such as one who wrote: "How anyone could see him as president baffles me. Lies and insane theories."
Earlier in the afternoon, Politico's Kyle Cheney reported that Carson's campaign acknowledged that the candidate had not been offered a scholarship to attend the US Military Academy at West Point, as the inspirational author wrote in his memoir, "Gifted Hands."
That admission followed a prominent CNN investigation, which aired Thursday, detailing the network's efforts to find corroborating evidence for other parts of Carson's history...
CNN reported that it talked to people who knew Carson 50 years ago, when the incidents were said to have occurred, but no one was familiar with Carson's attacks. The retired neurosurgeon blasted the report as a "bunch of lies" on Friday, insisting that he had not provided enough details for the media to invade the privacy of his victims.
Trump has also repeatedly taunted Carson over the CNN investigation and his unusual theory about the origins of the Egyptian pyramids.
"He hit a friend in the face with a [rock]. He tried to kill somebody with a knife and he said he suffers from pathological disease. OK?" Trump said in a interview set to air on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" later Friday, according to a transcript. "When you suffer from pathological disease, you’re not really getting better unless you start taking lots of pills and things."
He added: "There's something very strange here, there’s something very strange that's going on." (Snip)
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“There’s something very strange here, there’s something very strange that’s going on”
I said that after the pyramid story.
I rather think that the MSM would like to see a Trump vs Hillary battle because they feel that he can be goaded into saying really stupid things. This is an example.
I am with you on Cruz and the rest. What does Trump see as the benefit of going after Carson and risk alienating some of his supporters.
West Point says they didn’t offer him a scholarship. And he claims he met with General Westmoreland at a dinner who offered it on a date when the general was not in Detroit. He did attend an event with about a thousand others that Westmoreland was at a few months later. Add to this his associations with Armstrong Williams and Louis Farrakhan, his MLM business and statements about prison and pyramids and the strange factor is building.
Try to keep up. It's not just Trump. Most of Freeperland fell for the lying Politico story, too.
They attempted to destroy Carson by twisting the facts surrounding his missed opportunity to attend West Point in 1969. He never claimed he applied, nor did he ever receive a formal offer to attend. Politico made it all up.
The truth is, Carson was merely told by Gen. Westmoreland (or someone close to him) that he'd be an excellent candidate for West Point. Westmoreland (or his staff) may have also hinted that they'd be willing to recommend him for a scholarship, if he was interested.
Apparently, Carson already had his eye on a career in medicine, so never took the good General up on his offer.
Just yesterday, Trump was pointing out how awful Politico is. Well, they were awful today. I remember back in the days of college applications my peers often used the word scholarship when it was really a “financial aid gift based on need”.
Trump is often MUCH looser with his recollections, using hyperbole and superlatives constantly.
Since Carson explicitly stated he never even applied to West Point, and only applied to Yale, he was most likely remembering a recruiter (not Westmoreland, who is never connected with any offer) saying something along the lines of “with your ability and record we can get you in, and it won’t cost you anything”. He is remembering (in the book) the recoollections of an 18 year old. It is a memoir, not a dissertation in physics.
I have a feeling this is going to evolve into a situation where many of the same people who constantly go after the MSM for lying will turn a completely blind eye to Carson lying.
Sorry folks, but this isn’t just a trumped up bit of nothing.
Carson is increasingly appearing to be a candidate who not only lies, but lies about inconsequential things that are often easily refuted by a little bit of digging.
Is that what we want in a nominee?
Seems to me that Politico has unwittingly did us a favour by clearing out a potentially terrible candidate before he imploded in the general election.
He lied and lied and lied about it some more. Once again proving I was right to scratch him off my list during the first debate.
Where were CNN’s investigations when Obama was running the first time? Seems like they couldn’t care less about Obama’s carefully hidden background, and were perfectly content to take all of his claims as gospel truth.
And yet they claim they aren’t biased. /spit
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/press-trashes-politico-scoop-on-ben-carson/article/2575827
Did Ben Carson admit to fabricating a story about his application and acceptance into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point nearly 50 years ago?
The website Politico thought it caught the retired neurosurgeon red-handed, but others think the Arlington, Va., based publication rushed to judgment.
Kyle Cheney of Politico wrote that the Carson campaign “admitted that a central point in his inspirational personal story was fabricated: his application and acceptance into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.” Cheney fingered Carson’s book Gifted Hands as evidence of the GOP front-runner’s misdeeds.
But that story seemed to unravel soon after it came out, as other journalists began to point out that the book does not make any mention of Carson having applied to West Point, nor being accepted into the institution.......
This could be a valuable learning experience for us all.
Before you write a book about your past experiences, make sure you actually remember them clearly and in detail.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/960/no-ben-carson-didnt-lie-about-west-point-its-ben-shapiro#.VjzrIHREiFg.twitter#pq=A9pN4u
clearing out a potentially terrible candidate before he imploded in the general election.
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How would he implode? He’d be running against HILLARY CLINTON!!!! What conceivable lie could Carson have lurking in his past, that could even come close by comparison? Liar to liar against Clinton, Carson’s a piker.
I’m for Cruz- but if Carson got the nomination, he’d have the easiest path to victory.
Who stands to benefit the most here?
0bama
DNC
Hillary
Trump
Rubio
Fiorina
GOPe
anti-evangelicals
Who’s the next downstream religious candidate?
Do I need to close my tag?
Thanks.
Trump will find out that he is kicking himself in the balls by attacking Ben Carson’s integrity. Anyone who takes Politico’s word over a man like Carson is a fool and likely a commie liberal. I know, fool and commie liberal are synonymous.
Rush stated a couple of days ago that Trump trashing Carson might actually wind up hurting Trump. This looks like desperation on Trump’s part. He should refrain unless directly asked.
>> Before you write a book about your past experiences, make sure you actually remember them clearly and in detail.
That’s terrible advice! Who would be so bored as to enjoy a book about my *real* past?
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