Former GOP presidential contender Ben Carson joked Wednesday that his mother might have opted to shoot “dishonest reporters” for their coverage of the 2016 race.
Asked on CBS Radio’s “Brown and Scoop” podcast how his mother would’ve felt if she were “alive” to witness this year’s election, Carson clarified that his mother, Sonya, is still alive but suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.
“She’s not really cognizant of that, which is a good thing because my mother is really a fighter,” said the retired neurosurgeon, who is now advising Donald Trump. “She probably would have taken a gun and gone out and shot some of the dishonest reporters.”
Carson said the Founding Fathers would be similarly displeased with the “dishonest media” for manipulating the public with what he said was biased campaign reporting.
Back when he was in the running, the ever-colorful Carson brought up unverified accounts of his own youthful predilection toward violence, insisting that he attempted to stab a relative when he was 14 years old. At the time, Trump compared Carson to a “child molester” for his “pathological” violent bent.
h/t Politico
And what might mom say about your complete and total disconnection to honesty there Ben?
Between breast feeds she always found the time for a good old fashioned brick or knife fight…
Family history of neurodegenerative disease. Knock me over with a feather.
NB, I’m not making fun of his mom’s condition, I just think this explains a bit.
Well, his stabbing and hammering tendencies were clearly inherited…
The loathing runs deep in Ben… but being on ‘brown and scoop’ podcast is fitting.