Ben Carson, the retired pediatric neurosurgeon who ended his own presidential bid last week, endorsed Donald Trump at a news conference on Friday at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s club, calling him “actually a very intelligent man who cares deeply about America”.
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Even more, the website says the following: “To be successful, we must take the federal bureaucracy out of education and concentrate on empowering the American people”.
When asked about Trump’s past criticisms of his candidacy, Carson said, “We buried the hatchet”. He officially ended his campaign last Friday.
During a Republican presidential debate aired on CNN on Thursday night, Trump confirmed Carson’s backing. People are starting to figure that out.
Trump maintained that he has continued to hear from Republicans seeking to bring the party together. In the 1980s, this man with no diplomatic experience or training offered himself to negotiate an arms control treaty with the former Soviet Union.
Trump first considered the “two Trumps” theory Carson offered and said, “I probably do agree”.
Trump, who has labeled Mexican migrants rapists and drug traffickers and said he would ban Muslims entering the United States, also said it was “time to end the debates” and hinted he may not do the next one. “I’m somebody who is a thinker. There’s the public version.it seems to have worked over my lifetime”, he said.
But soon after making this agreeable statement Trump changed course.
Donald Trump called on Republicans to amass behind him to propel him into the White House, as he looks to tighten his grip on the party nomination at next week’s latest “Super Tuesday”. “I’m a big thinker”.
It was a unusual moment in a campaign that, thanks to characters like Trump and Carson, has been full of strangeness. Neither claim is true. To his credit he would sometimes confess that he wasn’t prepared to answer a question, and this honesty suggested a certain admirable integrity.
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The remarks appeared aimed at moderating Trump’s image, which has been defined by bluster, belligerence and belittling comments against opponents, including Carson. Keeping our fingers crossed this other Donald Trump is real and very different from the one we have come to know.
