{"id":13455,"date":"2016-03-14T02:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13455"},"modified":"2016-03-14T02:36:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T02:36:10","slug":"lets-just-see-one-trump-the-real-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13455","title":{"rendered":"Let’s just see one Trump, the real Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dr. Ben Carson, barely two weeks gone from the Republican Party presidential primary trail, has endorsed Donald J. Trump to be his party’s nominee.<\/p>\n

The man who Trump called a “pathological liar” now says Trump has another side. The public sees the bombastic Trump, the one who declares Mexican immigrants are rapists, who says John McCain isn’t a “real” war hero, who says Islam “hates America.”<\/p>\n

There’s another Trump lurking under the public man’s skin, Dr. Carson said. It’s more nuanced, more thoughtful, that he’s “malleable.”<\/p>\n

Can you believe that?<\/p>\n

Well, I can’t.<\/p>\n

Carson’s endorsement of Trump sounds about as authentic as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s endorsement. Recall that Christie said Trump is “unfit” to be commander in chief; he said Trump is campaigning as “entertainer in chief.” <\/a><\/p>\n

Now he’s on board. He’s all in.<\/p>\n

Christie must be angling for a spot somewhere —\u00a0I shudder to say this out loud —\u00a0in a Trump Cabinet.<\/em><\/p>\n

And Carson? There might be a vice-presidential spot in the good doctor’s immediate political future.<\/p>\n

As for his assertion that the “other” Donald Trump is much more likable and implicitly electable, I’ll just add this: If he’s out there, my hunch is that the bombastic and boorish\u00a0Trump would have given way long ago.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Ben Carson, barely two weeks gone from the Republican Party presidential primary trail, has endorsed Donald J. Trump to be his party’s nominee. The man who Trump called a “pathological liar” now says Trump has another side. The public sees the bombastic Trump, the one who declares Mexican immigrants are rapists, who says John … Continue reading Let’s just see one Trump, the real Trump<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[588,965,1424,1944],"class_list":["post-13455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-ben-carson","tag-chris-christie","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13457,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions\/13457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}