Carson Defends Trump Judge Attacks: He Was ‘Talking Out Loud,'
Source: MSN/TPM
op-flight Donald Trump surrogate Ben Carson made the case Thursday that the real estate mogul was just speaking off the cuff when he attacked an Indiana-born federal judge's Mexican heritage.
He was probably talking out loud rather than thinking. Thats not a good thing to do when everything you say is going to be analyzed, Carson told Politico in an interview.
The presumptive GOP nominee has offered no apology for the remarks, which were condemned by many in his own party as wildly inappropriate at best and racist at worst. But Carson said Trump told him during a private meeting at Trump Tower that he thought the attacks indeed were a mistake.
He fully recognizes that that was not the right thing to say, Carson told Politico.
Trumps attacks on U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel widened the rift his candidacy has opened in the GOP. While House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) labeled the remarks the textbook definition racism, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) pointedly refused to use that term.
Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/carson-defends-trump-judge-attacks-he-was-%E2%80%98talking-out-loud/ar-AAgTh17
With surrogates like this, who needs attacks from the Democrats?
Warpy
(111,700 posts)Uh, doesn't everybody talk out loud?
pnwmom
(109,051 posts)Extroverts talk out loud to discover what they are thinking. Introverts think about what they want to say, and then say it out loud.
That habit can get extroverts in trouble sometimes -- even the good ones, like Joe Biden.
truthisfreedom
(23,195 posts)drumpf is an ass-clown, not a candidate.
mahatmakanejeeves
(58,121 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)Response to TomCADem (Original post)
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ailsagirl
(22,980 posts)Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)If Trump blurted the attacks out in a private meeting, one time, then maybe this excuse might convince some people. However, spending the first few weeks of the general election campaign on this bizarre side quest that is completely unrelated to the election, that doesn't count as an "off the cuff remark".
PJMcK
(22,151 posts)What can one expect from the jelly-brained doctor? More importantly, does he have any influence at all? Who cares what he has to say about anything? I guess some Evangelicals still see him in a positive light but why he's out in front for Donald Trump baffles me.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)he often uses his outside voice when he means to use his inside voice.
trusty elf
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mwb970
(11,405 posts)cynzke
(1,254 posts)Ben "Mr. I Don't Think Before Speaking" Carson.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Tabloid crap isn't news.
Chemisse
(30,843 posts)That's the only thing about Trump that is good! You don't have to just suspect he is a racist - you know for sure, because he keeps saying racist things.
riversedge
(70,847 posts)thesquanderer
(12,033 posts)Yes, speaking out loud gets these folks in trouble all the time.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,531 posts)tom_kelly
(987 posts)real, live humans?
tclambert
(11,089 posts)Iggo
(47,684 posts)skypilot
(8,860 posts)I just laughed and stopped reading after that part.