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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Journal’s report was the latest in a damaging set of revelations, tied to Carson’s past, which have allowed political rivals to question his integrity. “Why would they know about that, unless they were one of those students?” he asked, adding that he believed others might come forward to confirm the story. None could remember being offered sanctuary in the lab, although they did recall the riots.Ĭarson told NBC on Sunday none of the students interviewed had been those offered sanctuary. The Journal interviewed six of Carson’s fellow students at Southwestern high, along with his physics teacher from the time. “I wonder why, with all their investigative abilities, can’t find it,” Carson said of the article.Ĭarson also disputed the Journal’s reporting of an incident relating to his time in high school in Detroit, in which he has claimed to have offered shelter to a group of white students inside the school’s biology lab during race riots following the death of Martin Luther King in 1968. He did, however, concede that the name of the class may have been recorded incorrectly. Once the prank was revealed, he wrote, the professor presented Carson with $10 as a reward for his honesty, and an article about the incident was published in the the Yale Daily News.Īccording to the Wall Street Journal, no such article appears in the archives of the campus newspaper and Yale has no record of any such class being taught.Ĭarson rejected this on Sunday, saying he had a copy of the newspaper article he planned to publish in the coming days. The appearance followed revelations published by the Wall Street Journal on Saturday and relating to Carson’s time at Yale University, where he has claimed to have been recognised by a psychology professor as “the most honest student in class”.Ĭarson wrote in Gifted Hands that the professor, who taught a class called Perceptions 301, had pulled a hoax on his 150 students by pretending they all had to re-sit a final exam because their papers had “inadvertently burned”.Īccording to Carson, every student apart from him refused to retake the exam. Please show me that person, because I will sit at their knees and I will learn from them.” Carson dismissed that reporting as "garbage" and "a bunch of lies" on Friday morning.Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon who is neck and neck with Donald Trump at the top of the polls, has experienced a torrid week as numerous inconsistencies in his 1992 autobiography, Gifted Hands, have been uncovered by reporters.Īsked on ABC if he believed he needed to be more precise in documenting his past, Carson said: “Show me somebody … who is 100% accurate in everything that they say happened 40 or 50 years ago. The report comes amid questions raised by CNN about stories Carson has told about violence in his childhood. Rival Donald Trump tweeted that the story was "one of many lies by Ben Carson." And Democrats just say, 'Ah, ho-hum,' and yet you have a man here of impeccable reputation, a decent, honorable person who was at the top of his personal profession, and could very well be president of the United States." Let's face it, the Clintons have gotten away with things that have been beyond the pale for years and years. "I mean almost everything she says you can find fault with. "Compare that to Hillary," said Hatch, who has endorsed Jeb Bush. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) told Sinclair Friday that he does not believe the revelation will kill Carson's campaign, arguing that he is more honest than Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. ![]() "Folks from West Point" told him he could get in based on his grades and performance, and "he considered it but in the end did not seek admission," Bennett said in the email, according to Politico. However, West Point told Politico there is no record of Carson applying or being offered admission to the school.Ĭarson's campaign acknowledged that part of the story was untrue.Ĭampaign manager Barry Bennett wrote in an email to Politico that Carson was the top ROTC student in Detroit at the time and was invited to meet Westmoreland. Military Academy at West Point after meeting Gen. In the book, the Republican presidential candidate and former neurosurgeon claimed that he was offered a "full scholarship" to the U.S. Ben Carson's campaign admitted to Politico Friday that a story told in his book, "Gifted Hands," was false. WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) Dr. ![]()
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