Yes, I hate that.
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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Oh, now I figured out what you meant. I don’t think Saul or Alvin York were exaggerrating. Do you think they were? I’m talking about exaggerating here. People tend to always exaggerate their “good” qualities, but sweep their “bad’ qualities under the rug and the rarely exaggerate them unless their job revolves around being perceived as a badass. Usually that is not the case with doctors or CEOs.
OpenSecrets.org, keeps track of all federal donations, and FollowtheMoney.org, keeps track of state-level donations.
Trump has been relatively evenhanded in doling out cash to the two parties, but since 1989, Trump has contributed over $350,000 more to Republicans running for federal and state offices, campaign finance records show.
Data from the Federal Election Commission and state elections offices provided by the two websites listed above show that Trump has given $584,850 to Democrats and $961,140 to the GOP over the last 26 years.
The difference in donations is almost entirely captured in recent giving. Since 2012, Trump has donated $463,450 to Republicans and just $3,500 to Democrats (California Attorney General Kamala Harris and New York Assemblyman Michael Benedetto).
In 2011, a Washington Post analysis of the Trump donations found the majority of them going to Democrats. But the flow of cash from Trump to Democrats has fallen off; the last time he gave to a Democrat running for federal office was in 2010.
Trump donated $50,000 to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2010, as well as over $25,000 more to other Cook County Democrats, among other donations that were made on the local level.
At the same time, however, Trump gifts to Republican candidates and organizations increased dramatically. Since 2010, Trump has donated $124,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and given another $50,000 to American Crossroads, a conservative super PAC.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/jul/09/ben-ferguson/donald-trumps-campaign-contributions-democrats-and/
Yes, I hate that.
Hey look, he’s checking Sharpton for a pulse!
“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”
I checked a bit; he might have been one for a certain time. Reagan was also a democrat.
However, that doesn’t change the fact that you are a complete, effete sounding asshole.
Reagan was a Republican 18 years becoming president, and already a stalwart conservative at that, and by that time. It's only been 6 years before the switcharoo for Trump, and his conservative credentials are spotty at best.However, that doesn’t change the fact that you are a complete, effete sounding asshole.
Sorry, I get a bit emotional when I hear out in out falsehoods about this trojan horse of a candidate. Many Trump supporters are conservative, and should be behind the most conservative candidate....... Cruz
“...should be behind the most conservative candidate....... Cruz.”
You mean the Cruz who voted for the Obama agenda:
1. Voted for cloture for the TPA bill, a bill Obama drooled over
2. Voted for the Corker bill, a bill Obama drooled over
3. Called for a five-fold increase in H1-B visas which anything close to that makes Obama drool with pleasure
That Cruz?
Ben Carson’s mother verified stabbing story in 1997 Parade article
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3358209/posts
[Will Trump mention this? Or is he a character assassin?]
Ben Carson’s mother verified stabbing story in 1997 Parade article
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3358209/posts
[Will Trump mention this? Or is he a character assassin?]
Carson is trash--verified. (Unless his own mother is trash enough to back up a stupid lie) He'll mention it.
Oh, so defend Trump [who had piled on the slander-based smears], now you try to trash Carson’s mother?
Very interesting. Carson is ‘trash’. His mother is ‘trash’. Yep, when someone confesses his sins, that makes him trash, and he should be made to look like a kook to boot for making the confession. And when his mother backs up what he says back in ‘97 as I understand it, then she’s trash too.
Face it, only a trashy person piles on [I assume unwittingly] to taunt someone who was slandered, and then fails to apologize or to even clarify.
If any one comes out trashy in this, it is Trump and his apologists.
I hereby appoint you my official post writer. Summed up beautifully.
Here read what Rush says The Latest on the Ben Carson Smear
Here read what Rush says
My question is that it's passed off as an autobiography. Doesn't that raise the standard for accuracy, confirmation of data, etc? Shouldn't it be noted if names have been changed or some details changed?
When I read historical fiction, I want it noted as such, and I like it written in such a way that it's clear what's fact and what's fiction.
Your premis about th book is wrong.
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