Peeved by recent attacks on his credibility, renowned neurosurgeon and 2016 GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson ripped into the media Friday for lying to tarnish his image.
Reacting to the latest attack by Politico, which falsely reported Friday that his campaign admitted his claim of applying to and getting accepted into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on a "full scholarship" was fabricated, Carson scolded the media sternly: "Don't lie!"
"I never said I received a full scholarship," said Carson in a testy news conference before the Black Republican Caucus of South Florida "Diamonds & Ice" Scholarship gala in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. "I never said — wait a minute, don't lie! I never said I received a full scholarship. Nowhere did I say that."
Carson told reporters: "Politico, as you know, told a bold-faced lie. They have been called out on it by The Washington Post and The New York Times and I'm sure there will be several others who call them out on that. Because there are actually some people with integrity in your business."
He further slammed the attacks as being made by desperate people who can't find the scandal in his life they were hoping to find.
"There is a desperation on behalf of some to try to find a way to tarnish me, because they have been looking through everything. They have been talking to everybody I've ever known, everyone I've ever seen. There's got to be a scandal, there's got to be a nurse he's had an affair with. There's got to be something. They are getting desperate. So next week it will be my kindergarten teacher who said I peed in my pants," he said.
The 2016 presidential candidate went even further to bolster his credibility on the weekend when he provided documentation supporting parts of his story being questioned by media.
CHRISTIAN POST
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