Ben Carson Adviser: We Have ‘Intelligence’ About Chinese In Syria (VIDEO)

Ben Carson speaks during Republican presidential debate at Milwaukee Theatre, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s business manager and adviser Armstrong Williams attempted to support Carson’s bizarre debate claims on Syria during a Wednesday interview with MSNBC by assuring the anchor that the Chinese are, in fact, in Syria.

When MSNBC’s Tamron Hall told Williams on Wednesday that the Chinese are not in Syria, Williams remained steadfast.

“From your perspective and what most people know, maybe that is inaccurate,” Williams told MSNBC. “From our own intelligence and what Dr. Carson’s been told by people who are on the ground who are involved in that region of the world, it has been told to him may times over and over, that the Chinese are there.”

Williams said in the “next few days” a story may come out to reinforce Carson’s claim of a Chinese presence in Syria.

“Just because the mainstream media and other experts don’t want to see any credibility to it, does not mean some way down the line in the next few days that that story will come out and will be reinforced and given credibility by others,” Williams said. “But as far as our intelligence and the briefings that Dr. Carson’s been in and I’ve certainly been in with him, we’ve certainly been told the Chinese are there.”

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  1. The Chinese Uncle Ben are talking about are also in the Mall doing takeout.

  2. I’m sorry. You can’t use Ben Carson and “intelligence” in the same sentence. Won’t work. It’ll never fly. We’ve heard him speak.

  3. Damnit, had that exact same sentence typed out and there it appears above me. You sir are the winner of the intertubes for today.

  4. The Chinese are in Syria, only on their way to get some of that rice stored in the pyramids in Egypt.

  5. Another day, another bullshit, and he’s still in the race.

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