11-13-2015, 02:19 PM
This is such a weird campaign cycle on the Republican side.
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Donald Trump really does not like being anywhere but at the top of of the polls. He watches them and cites them frequently and really knows how to use them to his advantage in targeting other candidates.
TRUMP ON IMMIGRATION: Other Republican candidates are attacking Trump's immigration platform. Kasich called it "silly" at the last debate. Trump's not backing down and insists that he'll round up all 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and humanely deport them. It's been done before successfully, he claims, by Dwight Eisenhower. "Everybody likes Ike". Total bullshit. Ike's "Operation Wetback" all those decades ago was a bust and is largely viewed by historians as a disgrace. At most, 1 million Mexicans were deported, some died in the process, and the project ceased after only about a year. Ref: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/11/...ion-model/
TRUMP ON CARSON: In addition to illegal immigrants, Trump's currently all over Ben Carson's shit. Yesterday at a rally, Trump compared Carson's "pathological" disease to child molesting. He also strongly insinuated that Carson was a liar. "Give me a break, give me a break, give me a break", he said in response to Carson's story about being saved from stabbing someone when his knife broke against the young man's belt buckle. Ref: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dona...da348844bf
CARSON THE PATHOLOGICAL, VIOLENT, MEDIA VICTIM: Meanwhile, Carson just keeps complaining about how the media is being unfair by questioning the claims he made in his books. He contends that nobody in the whole wide world has ever been scrutinized so much. He calls it a "witch hunt".
SOME OF CARSON'S UNVERIFIED/REFUTED CLAIMS: The belt buckle in question was worn by a classmate in Carson's first telling of the story. When questioned further, he claimed it actually belonged to a family member but refuses to say who. And, his claim that he tried to attack his mother with a hammer was refuted by his mother herself in a 1998 interview with the Detroit Free Press, that was before she got Alzheimer's. She told the reporter that she had trouble with her temper and was stopped from attacking Ben with a hammer when Ben's brother intervened. In addition, nobody in the class that day remembers Carson shielding his white classmates from an angry black mob at Detroit's Southwestern High following MLK's assassination, not one person. Ref: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...round.html
Donald Trump really does not like being anywhere but at the top of of the polls. He watches them and cites them frequently and really knows how to use them to his advantage in targeting other candidates.
TRUMP ON IMMIGRATION: Other Republican candidates are attacking Trump's immigration platform. Kasich called it "silly" at the last debate. Trump's not backing down and insists that he'll round up all 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and humanely deport them. It's been done before successfully, he claims, by Dwight Eisenhower. "Everybody likes Ike". Total bullshit. Ike's "Operation Wetback" all those decades ago was a bust and is largely viewed by historians as a disgrace. At most, 1 million Mexicans were deported, some died in the process, and the project ceased after only about a year. Ref: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/11/...ion-model/
TRUMP ON CARSON: In addition to illegal immigrants, Trump's currently all over Ben Carson's shit. Yesterday at a rally, Trump compared Carson's "pathological" disease to child molesting. He also strongly insinuated that Carson was a liar. "Give me a break, give me a break, give me a break", he said in response to Carson's story about being saved from stabbing someone when his knife broke against the young man's belt buckle. Ref: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dona...da348844bf
CARSON THE PATHOLOGICAL, VIOLENT, MEDIA VICTIM: Meanwhile, Carson just keeps complaining about how the media is being unfair by questioning the claims he made in his books. He contends that nobody in the whole wide world has ever been scrutinized so much. He calls it a "witch hunt".
SOME OF CARSON'S UNVERIFIED/REFUTED CLAIMS: The belt buckle in question was worn by a classmate in Carson's first telling of the story. When questioned further, he claimed it actually belonged to a family member but refuses to say who. And, his claim that he tried to attack his mother with a hammer was refuted by his mother herself in a 1998 interview with the Detroit Free Press, that was before she got Alzheimer's. She told the reporter that she had trouble with her temper and was stopped from attacking Ben with a hammer when Ben's brother intervened. In addition, nobody in the class that day remembers Carson shielding his white classmates from an angry black mob at Detroit's Southwestern High following MLK's assassination, not one person. Ref: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...round.html