Posted on 11/08/2015 9:27:47 PM PST by UncleRicosFootball
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called the controversy swirling around his rival Ben Carson "very strange" Sunday, questioning stories Carson has told that have since been scrutinized.
Trump has questioned Carson several times about a childhood story in his autobiography "Gifted Hands" in which Carson described once trying to stab a friend or relative. He also questioned a story Carson has told about hitting his mother with a hammer.
“It's a strange situation when you talk about hitting your mother on the head with the hammer," Trump said on ABC's "This Week." "It's a weird deal going on and I hope it all works out because I don’t want to see Ben have problems over this stuff.â€
On the campaign trail and in "Gifted Hands," Carson describes his teenage self as rage-filled and violent. But recent reports have questioned elements of that narrative and in new interviews, friends, neighbors and classmates from his childhood said the young man Carson describes is a far cry from the one they knew.
“I guess a book was written … before he was in politics, but he said he has 'pathological disease' in the book,†said Trump. “That's a very serious problem because that's not something that's cured. That's a very serious thing you have to live with.â€
Trump is no stranger to these kind of accusations. He has been questioned about his actual worth, and in his own book “The Art of The Deal,†he wrote, “A little hyperbole never hurt." But when pressed about his exaggerations, he turned the conversation back to Carson.
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“He want to milk the situation but he also know its a lie.”
I think Trump, like many folks, doesn’t know if Carson is lying or not. Only Carson seems to know the truth of 5 or more significant instances in his life as written by himself in his autobiography, that are all designed in one way or the other to make Carson look heroic or bigger than life. However there appears to be no corroboration for any of them by any other person and there are actual factual errors in his stories.
And I suspect that the media that now has a bone to pick with Gentle Ben, as he not so gently attacked them, will now be going through his autobiography and other comments or writings the good Doctor has made in the past and/or more currently, to find further discrepancies or outright untruths. The MSM smells blood in the water. Time will tell whether they are right or not.
I would be very careful making a judgment one way or the other on Carlson until more facts come out. One thing we do know for sure is that Carlson is pro-immigration, pro Puerto Rico statehood (giving Dems more electoral college votes, along with 2 more Dem Senators and more Reps as well), associates with Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan the Jew hater, and appears very GOPe/RINO oriented, even if he is an outsider.
Plus I have always felt that Carson is being given secret funding by the GOPe to try to knock down Trump, and once that would be accomplished, they would then in turn knock down Carson. In other words, Ben is their useful idiot. Time will tell. By the way, what does Carson mean when he says he suffers from pathological disease, as he says in his autobiography. What did he mean?
Yeah, that is his “self described” net worth. Anyone who takes it at face value over an independent analysis by Forbes or Bloomberg because he says so are getting what they asked for I suppose.
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-net-worth-2015-6
“Oh, and don’t brag about having gone to military school (Trump) when the reason was because you had to be taken out of public school after you smashed a teacher in the face”
Oh, I don’t know, it sure kept Trump out of any further trouble, and sure kept him on the straight and narrow. Plus he thrived at the Academy, got really good grades, and went on to the Wharton Business School. Better than taking a hammer to your own mother’s head, if that is even true.
Same for Carson. His success in ROTC along with family intervention and a religious awakening goes hand in hand with his renewed success in academics.
from Wikipedia:
“A 2011 report by the Center for Responsive Politics showed that over two decades of U.S. elections, Donald Trump made contributions to campaigns of both Republican Party and Democratic Party candidates.[103] In February 2012, Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president of the United States.[104] Trump was also an early supporter of Ronald Reagan for U.S. president.[105]”
from your post:
“It is well documented that Trump registered as a Democrat in August 2001- September 2009.”
Not a nice try on your part. Not even close. If that had happened, it would blanket the airwaves 24-7. How is it that you are the only person who knows that?
REPORTER: “Dr. Carson, there have been many accusations that your biography contains many incidents that just never happened, what’s your reply to those skeptics”?
CARSON: (agitated) “You know, I HAVE addressed those issues many times but, I guess, I’ll have to do it ONE more time so let me make it perfectly clear, I DID try to kill someone with a knife, I DID throw throw a rock at someone’s face and I DID almost hit my mother on her head with a hammer, got it”?
I think there ARE some people who look past his questionable history and get it.
I don’t know who was telling the truth at first, but after seeing Ben Carson answered all the media questions, I trust Carson’s version
Trump has talked freely about his Democratic past, blaming everything from being a New Yorker where “everyone was” (not really) to blaming Bush for 9/11 and the economic crash.
why would anyone say they did all those things knowing it won’t paint them as angels in the past. The media think saying he was a violent punk somehow make him sound better that’s why they spend so much effort trying to disprove it
His older brother did well for himself, too....and likely never took a hammer to mom or stabbed a friend.
Gifted Hands brings to mind Dreams from My Father.
What the heck is ’ ?
My comment was not specific to Trump or Carson, but to people in general that I’ve met in my life.
Hieroglyphics. Coded messages to Carson supporters.
Well I’m more interested in Carsons’ terrible positions on the issues. That is enough. But his kooky previous behavior is not a recommendation for office either.
“Exaggerating about one’s income or success in business is pretty common, but exaggerating about being violent and antisocial is unusual.”
Are you kidding? Saul of Tarsus — the wicked slayer of Christians who was miraculously converted. Now known as the Apostle Paul.
Sergeant York — the rough, godless drunk who was miraculously converted.
This is what Christianity is all about.
This is the first time in any presidential campaign when a man publicly confesses about sins, and people claim that he was ‘too straight laced’ to be such a sinner.
Saul of Tarsus, Alvin York, Ben Carson-—HAHAHAHAHA. Stop it.
Keep digging .... You are the one caught in the lie saying Trump was never a democrat. You have no credibility, and i have no use for idiots like you who lie here at FR
Agreed. Since they are all coming to the mainland anyway...
To quote the Great Pumpkin “what difference does it make”!
:-)
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