There is history, and then there is history according to Ben Carson. The two aren’t always the same.
…”That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity,” Mr Carson told staff on Monday, his first day in his new job.
“There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less. But they, too, had a dream.”
…In 2013, he said President Obama’s healthcare reform plan was “the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery” and then, in October 2015, compared women who seek abortions to slaveholders.
…Back in November 2015, Buzzfeed published a video of Mr Carson saying the pyramids were built by the Biblical figure Joseph for storing grain.
The video was filmed 17 years earlier but Mr Carson, at the time the Republican frontrunner, told journalists that his views had not changed.
…In a speech to fellow Seventh-Day Adventists in 2012, he said the Big Bang was one of many “fairy tales” being peddled by “highfalutin scientists” and that the order in the solar system showed that creation was a planned event.
…Back in October 2015, when he was still second-favourite to win the Republican nomination, he suggested the Holocaust may have been avoided if people had been armed.
…His campaign backed away from his claim that he had been admitted to the prestigious US military academy at West Point.
But Mr Carson continued to stand by his assertion that, as a teenager, he tried to stab a relative,
….One magazine summed up the oddness of his story, headlining its article: “Ben Carson defends himself against allegations that he never attempted to murder a child.”
History according to Ben Carson – BBC News
There is something seriously off about that man.
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