Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s campaign posted a spate of fake news reports carrying the names of real news outlets to his Facebook page Tuesday afternoon in a further effort to make light of media scrutiny about his biography.
Carson’s campaign posted fake breaking news reports using the names and logos of CNN, Politico, and Huffington Post to parody recent allegations that he misstated facts about his past in various speeches and books.
The posts used the same “things the liberal media thinks are important for voters to know” about the retired neurosurgeon as a video released Tuesday.
Carson’s campaign has attempted to downplay inconsistencies in his biography after Politico reported that he falsely and repeatedly said he’d turned down a scholarship from the elite U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Carson’s campaign acknowledged that he never applied or was accepted to the academy.
Additionally, the Wall Street Journal questioned an anecdote about being dubbed the “most honest” student in a Yale psychology course, and CNN earlier reported it couldn’t find anyone to verify Carson’s stories about violence in his youth.
