Ben Carson compares a few refugees to ‘rabid’ dogs

“That’s going to be a lot more hard to do now”, he said.

“For The NY Times to take advantage of an elderly gentleman and use him as their foil in his story is an affront to good journalistic practices”.

Later, as Politico reports, the Carson campaign sent an email to supporters asking for money.

He was more direct during the subsequent campaign rally.

Carson’s view is in line with the other GOP candidates who have opposed taking in Syrian refugees. The operative in Iraq had “overleaped” in suggesting Chinese troops are in Syria, Mr. Clarridge said, adding of the operative, “You know how it goes when people are desperate for a few headline”.

Asked whether he would sign such a measure, Carson said he hasn’t reviewed the details.

Armstrong Williams, Carson’s longtime business manager, told Business Insider on Thursday that he regrets giving a Times reporter the cellphone number of Duane Clarridge, whom the newspaper identified as a “top” adviser to Carson on terrorism and national security. “That’s where the difference lies”, Carson said. Carson added that Americans should be in fear of a terrorist attack in the USA because Islamic State (Isis) terrorists are “so much greater a threat to us” than al-Qaeda ever was.

Carson said his principal foreign policy adviser is Robert Dees, a former Army major general, and that he also has consulted former secretary of state Henry Kissinger and Robert “Bud” McFarlane, who was former president Ronald Reagan’s national security adviser.

“It’s not going to be done”, Carson agrees, despite that very morning having published an op-ed saying that ISIS should be fought on the ground with local troops and only “military advisers and Special Operations forces” from the West. According to the Post, Carson attempted to distance himself from Clarridge, who he called “a consultant”.

Instead, they view Carson as the man who rode the black community to stardom and abandoned them for a whole new base – and Carson will either sink or swim, without a lion’s share of Black voters.

“I speak when something needs to be clarified”, Williams said.

“Of course he knows the answer to that question”, Williams said, arguing that Carson was “being dismissive” because he didn’t think the question was relevant to the bigger picture.

Yet in the Bloomberg interview on Tuesday, speaking for Carson appears to be exactly what Williams was doing.