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[quote=jsteele]Technically, this is not a gaffe but simply another example of his willingness to mindlessly repeat just about any idea that right-wingers manage to implant in his head. I'll let Politifact take it from here:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/09/ben-carson/ben-carson-says-mahmoud-abbas-ali-khamenei-vladimi/

[quote]Carson said, "In the class of 1968 at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Mahmoud Abbas was one of the members of that class, and so was Ali Khamenei. And that's where they first established relationships with the young Vladimir Putin."

This is one of the more bizarre claims we’ve heard so far in the 2016 presidential campaign, and that’s saying something.

Abbas may have attended the university, though we don’t know for sure, or when. No credible evidence has yet surfaced to place Khamenei as a student in the Soviet Union -- ever, much less in close proximity to Abbas, or in 1968. And Putin would have been a teenager in 1968, attending school 450 miles away.

The idea that the three men developed lifelong ties as students in the late-1960s-era Soviet Union is ridiculous. Pants on Fire![/quote]

Now, I know from experience that certain posters here will immediately discount this because Politifact is a Marxist, Kenyan, Islamic, Democratic Party front organization. But, I'd like to remind those posters of how much they loved Politifact when it declared that Obama was responsible for the lie of the year.

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