Carson : I didn't want to endorse Trump

[Jan2017]

thinprogress.org, really?

Carson: I Didn't Really Want To Endorse Trump, But He Offered Me A Position (VIDEO)

Former GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson said while he wished there was a “path” for him to endorse another candidate, he’s anticipating a role in Republican Donald Trump’s possible administration.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-carson-trump-endorsement-job

 

[klamath]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...on-role-donald-trump-administration/81828510/

Ben Carson says Trump offered him a role in his administration.

BOUGHT AND PAID FOR.

 

[fcreature]

Oh wait, Trump bought another politician?

How anti-establishment of him!

 

[Ronin Truth]

Did the Devil make you do it, Ben?

 

[jmdrake]

Watch the video from OP till the end. This guy just talks too much. He has no place in politics. He talks about Trump giving ammo to progressives by offering to pay the legal expenses for the sucker punch guy and then immediately after that spills the beans about what went on between him and Donald. The progressives waste no time in running with it. With friends like these who needs enemies?

Actually that video makes me feel better about Dr. Carson. It seems like he wasn't trying to hide anything because he didn't see anything wrong with saying "Well Kasich and Rubio don't stand a chance at winning and Trump is at least willing to listen to me in an advisory capacity." It also doesn't sound like he's been offered a job. Cjenk kept saying "You're not supposed to say that" as opposed to "You're not supposed to do that" which is a tacit admission that everybody knows that all of these pre nomination endorsements by former adversaries come with some kind of string attached. That said, personal self respect should have stopped him from endorsing a slimeball that compared him to a child molester and lied and said that childhood anger issues are "pathologic" and "cannot be cured."

Edit: Here's an off the wall thought. Say if giving Trump the worst possible endorsement ever was Ben's revenge for Trump being such a jerk to him during the campaign? New meaning to the phrase "kill em with kindness."

 

[francisco]

This is how Trump does business. He buys and sells politicians of all stripes.

I think some other candidate made that exact same comment in a debate.

 

[cajuncocoa]

WOW. That is all.

 

[bubbleboy]

Joel Osteen ‘Hey, maybe the country’s not where we should be — let’s get back to where we were,” Osteen said. “He’s an incredible communicator and brander. He’s been a friend of our ministry. He’s a good man.”

 

[Jan2017]

Watch the video from OP till the end. This guy just talks too much. He has no place in politics. He talks about Trump giving ammo to progressives by offering to pay the legal expenses for the sucker punch guy and then immediately after that spills the beans about what went on between him and Donald. The progressives waste no time in running with it. With friends like these who needs enemies?

"What has become the world's worst endorsement . . ."

regarding Trump rally violence . . .
Carson : "You have to place the blame where the blame is due and the blame is due to the agitators." (I read Trump as very much an agitator)

Carson "I would have endorsed Kasich or Rubio . . ."

 

[SilentBull]

Carson is a weird freaking dude. First he says he's going to Florida to pick up underwear, which he decides to tell people right before the Iowa caucus, and then complains when other campaigns take that to mean that he's out...then he decides to skip a debate but claims he's not dropping out, only to then officially drop out days later. Now this? He seems like the victim of bad brain surgery himself.

 

[Joeinmo]

Ben Carson: I Didn’t Want To Endorse Trump, But He Promised Me A Position
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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/15/3760261/carson-offered-position-by-trump/

an advisor is not a position, just saying ...advisors are not necessarily a position in government

 

[Jan2017]

an advisor is not a position, just saying ...advisors are not necessarily a position in government

Yeah, that will be what a prosecutor or jury may have to decide on, if federal election laws have been broken . . .
only a maximum two year jail sentence for Trump ?

Duhnald talking about Ben's great ideas for Department of Education at the Miami GOP debate and the endorsement tomorrow morning in front of millions . . . maybe someone is gonna find another slip of the tongue to connect more of the dots.

 

[openfire]

I hope Trump offers him the Treasury Secretary slot:

"[T]he only reason that we can sustain that kind of debt is because of our artificial ability to print money, to create what we think is wealth, but it is not wealth, because it's based upon our faith and credit. You know, we decoupled it from the domestic gold standard in 1933, and from the international gold standard in 1971, and since that time, it's not based on anything. Why would we be continuing to do that?”

^Ben Carson!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-12/ben-carson-upsets-mainstream-media-openly-questions-fiat-money

 

[klamath]

I hope Trump offers him the Treasury Secretary slot:



^Ben Carson!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-12/ben-carson-upsets-mainstream-media-openly-questions-fiat-money

I do too and it comes out and they both go to jail for it.

 

[luctor-et-emergo]

Yeah, that will be what a prosecutor or jury may have to decide on, if federal election laws have been broken . . .
only a maximum two year jail sentence for Trump ?

Duhnald talking about Ben's great ideas for Department of Education at the Miami GOP debate and the endorsement tomorrow morning in front of millions . . . maybe someone is gonna find another slip of the tongue to connect more of the dots.

“the appointment of any person to any public or private position or employment, for the purpose of procuring support in his candidacy.”

Sounds like it also covers advisory positions.

 

[euphemia]

Carson could have said no, then just stopped talking.

 

[openfire]

I do too and it comes out and they both go to jail for it.

Let me get this straight. If an Austrian were appointed Treasury Secretary, you would want that person arrested... mmmkay. What are we fighting for again?

 

[Jan2017]

Let me get this straight. If an Austrian were appointed Treasury Secretary, you would want that person arrested... mmmkay. What are we fighting for again?

No, it would be only the one offering the bribe of the political appointment for the timely endorsement, I think.
Trump VP becomes President after Duhnald impeachment, I guess.

 

[openfire]

No, it would be only the one offering the bribe of the political appointment for the timely endorsement, I think.
Trump VP becomes President after Duhnald impeachment, I guess.

Then I hope he offers Rand the VP slot in exchange for his endorsement.

 

[klamath]

Let me get this straight. If an Austrian were appointed Treasury Secretary, you would want that person arrested... mmmkay. What are we fighting for again?

I figured out a long time ago you aren't fighting for freedom at all. So yes don't ever say "we".