Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus said during an appearance on Monday’s episode of NBC’s “Today” that some vetting of the life story and memoirs of Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is “appropriate” but that it has turned into a “crazy obsession.”
“I would imagine some questions are appropriate, but I do believe that this is totally a crazy obsession over incredible detail from 30 or 40 years ago, whether it be this issue or some of these other issues highlighted earlier in the segment among other candidates,” Priebus told host Matt Lauer. “The fact is we kinda wish the media would be just as obsessed or half obsessed with Hillary Clinton’s lies of many years.”
When asked if questions about Carson’s campaign, backed “interesting and inspiring life story,” are legitimate, Priebus conceded some were.
“I’m not saying questions aren’t appropriate,” Preibus told Lauer. “But I think you get to a place where all the questions have been asked.”
Watch the clip, from NBC, below:
