{"id":141557,"date":"2019-07-21T22:21:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T19:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/ben-carson-defends-trump-over-go-back-tweets\/"},"modified":"2019-07-21T22:21:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T19:21:03","slug":"ben-carson-defends-trump-over-go-back-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/ben-carson-defends-trump-over-go-back-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Carson defends Trump over \u2018go back\u2019 tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/ben-carson.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u200bWASHINGTON \u2013 Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson \u200bon \u200bSunday defended President Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/07\/14\/trump-tells-freshman-dems-to-go-back-to-their-countries\/\">against accusations of racism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is not racist at all,\u201d Carson told Fox News\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/\u200bhttps:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6062350617001\/?playlist_id=3386055101001\">\u201cSunday Morning Futures.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe lived in New York. Jesse Jackson gave him an award for the incredible things that he had done in the African\u200b-American community,\u201d Carson added. \u201cI have never seen anything that even resembles racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what award Carson is referring to, but Trump did donate office space to Jackson\u2019s Rainbow\/Push Coalition at his 40 Wall Street building that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/08\/31\/jesse-jackson-once-sang-donald-trumps-praises\/\">garnered praise<\/a> from the civil rights leader at the time.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump sparked controversy when he called for the reinstatement of the death penalty for the Central Park Five \u2013 young black and Latino men who were wrongly accused of assaulting a white Central Park jogger in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Trump never apologized and his statements have gotten renewed criticism with the release this year of a Netflix series on the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bCarson\u2019s defense of Trump comes after the House voted last week to condemn Trump\u2019s \u201cracist\u201d tweets against four progressive Democrats in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Trump told the women of color to \u201cgo back\u201d to where they\u2019re from.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ilhan Omar, the target of \u201c\u200bs\u200bend \u200bh\u200ber \u200bb\u200back\u201d chants at a Trump rally\u200b in North Carolina\u200b, <a href=\"http:\/\/\u200bhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/1152748499840249857\">tweeted Saturday<\/a> that \u201cthis racist president wants every black\/brown person deported and Muslims banned.\u201dben carson<\/p>\n<p>\u200bC\u200barson, who is African American, condemned a \u201cradical element\u201d in Congress and brought up examples of his personal interactions with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The first time he met Trump at his Mar-a-\u200bL\u200bago resort, another guest alerted Trump to the arrival of singer Rod Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump wasn\u2019t distracted from his conversation with Carson, who was a celebrated neurosurgeon before entering politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump said\u200b,\u200b \u2018Yeah, but this is Ben Carson,\u2019\u201d recalled Carson.<\/p>\n<p>Carson also cited a embarrassing hiccup during one of the GOP debates when Carson missed his entrance on stage because he couldn\u2019t hear his name announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody else walked gleefully past me, but Trump stood right next to me until they straightened it out,\u201d Carson said. \u201cThat\u2019s the kind of person that he is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carson said Trump\u2019s policies are responsible for the lowest black unemployment, investment in opportunity zones and for criminal justice reforms that are giving inmates second chances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s what\u2019s been done,\u201d Carson said. \u201cIt\u2019s not what has been said or how it\u2019s been interpreted and hashed over and over in the media.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/07\/21\/ben-carson-defends-trump-over-go-back-tweets\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] \u200bWASHINGTON \u2013 Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson \u200bon \u200bSunday defended President Trump against accusations of racism. \u201cHe is not racist at all,\u201d Carson told Fox News\u2019 \u201cSunday Morning Futures.\u201d \u201cHe lived in New York. Jesse Jackson gave him an award for the incredible things that he had done in the African\u200b-American community,\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}