Carson’s campaign deleted the tweet containing the map.
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“They weren’t almost as developed as they are now”, Carson said of what he termed the “global jihadist movement”.
“When I hear political leaders suggesting that there would be a religious test for which person who’s fleeing from a war-torn country is admitted, when a few of those folks themselves come from families who benefited from protection when they were fleeing political persecution, that’s shameful”, said Obama during a trip to Asia.
“I speak when something needs to be clarified”, Williams said.
On the same day that Mr Carson spoke, the US House of Representatives passed Republican-backed legislation to suspend Mr Obama’s programme to passed admit the 10,000 refugees in the next year.
“Armstrong is an independent agent”, Carson said.
Carson’s campaign has spent the last two days containing the fallout from The Times story. Clarridge told The NY Times that Carson struggles with Middle Eastern affairs, in particular.
Trump took time to ridicule Carson over an interview the retired neurosurgeon gave Fox News Sunday.
NY Magazine’s Jonathan Chait quips that Mr Carson’s “advisers now appear genuinely terrified that he might be elected president and are doing everything in their power to stop it”.
“The Paris terrorist attacks have demonstrated that terrorists will pose as refugees to enter our land”.
“Well, putting the special ops people in there is better than not having them there, because they, that’s why they’re called special ops”, he said. Carson was unable to identify any country that USA should recruit in a coalition against the Islamic States.
Carson said, “Who are the people who want to come in here and hurt us and want to destroy us?” You know, there will be multiple phone calls.
“You didn’t have to be all that great”.
He added: “He’s unable to comprehend foreign policy”.
Sadly, this is the first year Bump has conducted the analysis – so there’s no way to know whether Arizona’s been slipping or climbing. “But this is a database in which he’s very unfamiliar”.
His primary Republican presidential rival, Donald Trump, has also seized on Carson’s foreign policy shortcomings, mocking him at a press conference in Worcester, MA on Wednesday.
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US intelligence officials don’t believe IS has the capability to develop sophisticated weapons like nerve gas that are most suited for a terrorist attack on a civilian target.
