The problem, that I can see (assuming POLITICO is correct) is that “scholarships” are not offered by West Point unless one starts applying there, and West Point says he didn’t start the application process.
Again this is all assuming POLITICO is accurate in their reporting. A big “if”. Also there is the point that West Point doesn’t have “scholarships” per se, just “appointments”
So this is just a big train wreck for Carson, any way you slice it it seems. Again, if in his book he did claim he was offered a “scholarship” there (I don’t know I don’t have his book and I’m not going just on Politico’s word on that. Especially since that’s the critical word here that the “lie” hinges on)
“So this is just a big train wreck for Carson”
Only because Politico is ginning it up.
This is a nothing story. It is about a surgeon looking back at his time at the transition to College, remembering his choices and how he decided to do what he did.
Politico actually provides the proof of his claims and shows that it was not on Memorial Day but in In February.
Do you have any doubt Carson at that age with his ROTC background was not told he could get a scholarship if he wanted?
He tells the story in the book not to claim he had been awarded a full scholarship (and he never claimed that in the book) but to write about his choices at that age and how he ultimately chose to go and become a brain surgeon.