Posted on 04/08/2016 2:47:09 AM PDT by markomalley
Dr. Ben Carson made yet another odd appearance on behalf of Donald Trump Thursday on CNN, fumbling answers about whether he thought there were better candidates and at one point accusing one of the interviewers of once being charged with a crime.
Since endorsing Trump last month, the former GOP presidential contender has not been particularly helpful to Trump’s cause in numerous media appearances, acknowledging Trump’s deceits, saying he honestly would prefer another candidate and suggesting if Trump was a bad president, it would only last four years anyway.
At one point Thursday, when CNN host John Berman asked Carson about the battery charges against Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, Carson responded by suggesting Berman himself had been charged with a crime before.
“Well, I mean a lot of people have been charged with various things,” Carson said. “That doesn’t necessarily mean we need to demonize them. You’ve probably been charged with something, too.”
Berman and co-host Kate Bolduan shot looks at one another.
“Maybe with a misdemeanor or something. That doesn’t mean that you’re an evil, horrible person,” Carson said.
“I actually haven’t, as far as I know,” Berman said, while Carson kept talking.
Later, Berman asked Carson about his recent remarks that there were “probably” better choices for president than Trump.
“I don’t think you have to really think about that,” Carson said. “Doesn’t matter what you’re doing. There are better people than me at neurosurgery. There are better people than you at being a broadcaster. There are better people at everything.”
Bolduan asked Carson if he had someone in mind when he remarked there potentially better choices.
“I don’t think that that’s a useful place to go, but it’s an obvious statement,” Carson said.
“You brought it up,” Bolduan said.
“If you drop a brick off of a building, it’s going to fall,” Carson said. “Obviously, there’s always going to be someone who’s better at virtually anything. It doesn’t mean that you’re not good, but of course there always better people at anything. That should be an obvious statement.”
Bolduan repeated Carson brought it up, again asking if he had another person in mind.
Carson then said the sound had deteriorated and he was unable to hear the CNN anchors any longer.
“You think I’m making excuses. It’s true,” Carson said.
“I’m happy to talk a lot louder if need be,” Bolduan said, smiling.
Suddenly, Carson could hear when Berman again asked who Carson had in mind, or, “How could [Trump] be better?”
“That second part is a good question,” Carson said. “There’s always more things to learn, there’s always the possibility of trying to learn more about the constituency … Working on trying to allow them to be successful.”
After the interview concluded, Berman said he would call his lawyer, given Carson’s accusations.
Free Beacon just LOVES CNN and its anti-Trump interviews
Scumbag media in action.
Let Berman call his lawyer. His lawyer will laugh at him as it was nothing more than hypothetical conjecture, no more than the scumbags interrogations.
Carson did very well.
Media hate him because he supports the nemesis of their benefactor.
If Carson had not endorsed Trump, he would be the toast of the media on a weekly basis.
How lame are these Trump hate websites? Free Beacon, Hot Air, Ace of Spades etc. Trump has exposed and schlonged them, just like he did with Shapiro and Fields. I look forward to these cuck sites disappearing off the radar, the same way LGF did.
I didn’t hear this interview, but yes, your post is true.
I’ve heard a lot, if not most, of Carson’s interviews....
....and he’s done quite well.
He more than holds his own.
The relaying of this one seems out of context.
The media really hate that Carson endorsed Trump!......that was a biggie!
Dr. Ben Carson asked whether the CNN person had ever been accused of a crime. How did that question become an accusation?
We need more people in politics who are unafraid to speak their mind. Why waste any time at all with such a leftist organization like CNN?
Trump needs supporters like Carson going to the media and keeping it real. The suggestion that he is the best thing ever is exactly what turns a lot of potential voters off.
It's more than just that. They hate him because he is a black who left the plantation.
Remember when Cruz supporters thought Ben Carson was a sellout for endorsing Trump?
Trump can have him. He is not a helpful at all.
Thanks. We will take his delegates. Meanwhile Cruz continues to toady for the GOPe. He should be ashamed.
A “conservative.” What a joke.
Starting Saturday Iowa will be voting on a slate of delegates. I, of course will be there proudly not wearing a red hat.
No, they will not. His delegates will not make it to a second ballot.
If there is a second ballot, the fix is in and no one named Cruz will win anything.
You guys just don’t get it. Ted isn’t that smart, and the GOPe isn’t that dumb. Why do you think they enlisted him to stop Trump BEFORE the second ballot?
The Free Beacon’s Editor in Chief is Bill Krystol’s son in law.
I have heard Ben Harson speak on the radio and that guy puts people asleep.
Ben Carson was a cultist pyramid-scheming sponge-leaving malpractitioner last year.
Now he’s the cat’s meow.
Carson is too intellectual for the run-of-the-mill interviewer. He needs to zip it and work from a few canned statements he should keep on a 3 x 5 card in his pocket.
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