Ben Carson: ‘People Who Know Me Know That I’m An Honest Person’

Ben Carson laughs during Republican presidential debate at Milwaukee Theatre, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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Ben Carson insisted scrutiny of his personal backstory was biased and that people who know him know that he’s honest.

“We have to start treating people the same. And finding out what people really think and what they’re made of,” Carson said during the Fox Business Network debate Tuesday. “People who know me know that I’m an honest person.”

Carson was asked whether the claims that he embellished his biography was hurting his campaign. The neurosurgeon cracked a joke that he was thankful he was not being asked to recall a detail from the 10th grade, before turning his criticisms toward the media.

“The fact of the matter is, what, we should vet all candidates. I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about. And then, putting that out there — as truth,” Carson said. “I don’t even mind that so much, if they do it with everybody, like people on the other side.”

He then pivoted towards Hillary Clinton and the accusations that she lied about the Benghazi attack.

“When I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that, ‘No, this was a terrorist attack,’ and then tells everybody else that it was a video, where I came from, they call that a lie,” he said, referring to the Benghazi attack.

“I think that’s very different from, you know, somebody misinterpreting, when I said, that I was offered a scholarship to West Point, that is the word that they used,” he continued, referring to last week’s reports that that story had been fabricated since West Point is tuition-free.

“I have had many people come and say the same thing to me. That is what people do in those situations,” he said.

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  1. I’m about sick of his fucking BS. Trump was boring and weird too but at least he was mildly entertaining.

  2. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    I don’t even mind that so much

    They got the money on a bet
    Gold crocodiles (oh whey oh)

  3. Ben Carson: ‘People Who Know Me Know That I’m An Honest Person’

    Possibly, but the rest of us think you are a lying, ill-equipped, overly religious, jackass!

  4. Too bad nobody knows or can remember much about Carson, especially from his past. Apparently he didn’t leave that much of an indelible mark.

  5. What a pompous ahole he is. ‘People’ know I’m honest. Uh huh…you’ve been on a pedestal since your book came out and now that people are actually ‘checking’ the facts we are finding it’s not so ‘true’. Next up you’ll accuse the secular progressive of a high tech lynching ala Clarence Thomas. And Hillary? I know in your world it’s hard so hard to LISTEN but having terrorists attack a consulate after being provoked by a video are not mutually exclusive…especially in the heat of the moment.

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