Ben Carson accused of fabricating details in West Point story

Even with questions surrounding Carson’s past, Trump recognized that the retired neurosurgeon was his biggest rival for the Republican presidential nomination.

The top polling Republican presidential candidate is offering up proof for a story he told in his book “Gifted Hands” that the Wall Street Journal couldn’t verify about Carson being the only student willing to retake his psychology test after the professor said all of the tests burned, which resulted in the professor calling Carson the most honest student. The Wall Street Journal said it could not confirm Carson anecdotes from his high school and college years. If you will buy his 1996 autobiography called “Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story”, you will find that he talked about being “offered a full scholarship to West Point” at page 67, after he had dined with “a prominent us general”.

“I love it when people come up to me and they say, “but you’ve never been elected to public office, you can’t possibly know how to do anything”,” Carson mused. “My job is to call you out when you’re unfair, and I’m going to continue to do that”, he said.

Carson told NBC News: “Being vetted and what is going on with me…” “What really matters is what is happening in New Hampshire and Iowa”, said Chris Christie, (R) Presidential Candidate.

Donald Trump, who made the talk show rounds by phone, said he feels sorry for Carson but intimated he has trouble believing Carson’s claims. Maybe that explains why people have been fooled by their first impressions of God-loving, Medicare-hating, soft-spoken Carson, trying to sell himself as the anti-Trump. Carson’s campaign said on Friday that his grades and conversations with ROTC officials constituted a de facto acceptance to the academy, which provides full scholarships to all of its students. Oh, well, you said this when you were in kindergarten. “So it’s pretty lucky if that happened”, Trump said. And I was very flattered by that. “I see her and Rubio as being the same person”.

U.S. Republican candidate Dr. Ben Carson speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, October 9, 2015.

Still, I will watch the Fox Business Network’s debate Tuesday night.

When asked if he was comfortable with the show mocking the Latino groups who protested him, Trump replied, “Not only comfortable, it was something I had to agree to, and I loved it”.

Carson has said a lot of loopy stuff.

Carson said he stood by those stories, and that despite the reports, he will not be making any changes in his campaign moving forward. Carson said he later had an epiphany any became the famously soft-spoken man he is today. “They have space for small rooms, where the pharaohs had their coffins and where the pharaohs were buried, essentially”, Trump told host John Dickerson. “You know, a belt buckle is not going to stop a knife”.

“I would say that we all have different experiences in life, and that our country was designed for citizen statesmen, not career politicians”, he added in the “Face the Nation interview, citing his range of experiences in neurosurgery, on corporate boards, and running a scholarship program”.

“What does it say about people who immediately jump on the bandwagon if they hear something bad rather than waiting and finding out what the truth is?” he asked on “This Week”. “So even though it is, you know, given as a grant for anybody who gets in, those words are used”.