I think you're more right than wrong. Carson writes, specifically, that he was offered a full scholarship to West Point. Carson was in some sort of ROTC program, and he easily could have been told by some official, "Someone like you could get a full scholarship to West Point."
And he simply remembers it wrong, or took too much away from that discussion.
I'm no Carson fan, but this is not a big deal.
Carson’s fatal mistake is admitting the allegation made by Politico is true.
Even if it is a hit job, which I agree it was.
We live in a society, because iniquity abounds, where one cannot admit wrong without suffering permanent consequences for it.
Unless you are a Leftist - which never happens, because they never admit wrongdoing - and if they are presented with enough evidence of their involvement in evil, and they admit it - the media will preach the virtues of forgive and forget.
This is war folks. All is fair.