Posted on 11/23/2016 3:36:25 PM PST by mandaladon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump has not extended an offer to retired neurosurgeon and former presidential rival Ben Carson to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development, a Carson spokesman said on Wednesday, disputing a report by the Wall Street Journal.
"Trump did not make an offer," Carson spokesman Armstrong Williams told Reuters. "He asked him to consider HUD. Nothing has been offered and no decision has been made."
The Wall Street Journal earlier had cited Williams as saying Carson had been offered the post and had accepted. The Journal later corrected its story to say Carson was being considered for the HUD job.
"@realDonaldTrump is considering @RealBenCarson for a cabinet post. Dr. Carson is prayerfully & seriously considering," Armstrong said on Twitter. On Tuesday, Armstrong had told Reuters that Trump had asked Carson to consider taking the post and that Carson was considering it.
As recently as last week, Carson, 65, had told The Washington Post he was not interested in a Cabinet job, saying, "Having me as a federal bureaucrat would be like a fish out of water."
But he and Trump met on Tuesday at Trump Tower in New York, and earlier on Wednesday Carson posted on Facebook that after the talks he felt "that I can make a significant contribution particularly to making our inner cities great for everyone."
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More fake news by the media?
...As in the first report that Carson was picked for HUD was fake.
Trump’s twitted yesterday that he was considering Carson for the HUD spot. Yahoo news = fake news.
yet it’s been posted here...how many times?
Carson was on a fox channel this am and as much a made the claim that he had been offered the job. Huckabee was on both fox cable stations this am and didn’t say jack even when pushed.
I like Dr Carson and would welcome his appointment to a post that would take advantage of his medical knowledge, such as Surgeon General.
I would like to see an HUD appointee that has demonstrated the skills of “right sizing” a large organization like HUD...
it is one of the most bloated bureaucrappies in WashDC, with a number of offices and programs that are either NOT properly at the federal level to begin with, or are poorly performing. A manager with demonstrated downsizing and refocussing skills....
Maybe not; but would Yahoo News be the first to know?
I am sure it’s all hanging on Carson. Trump does not want to make a formal offer until Carson agrees to accept it. Carson seems to be sitting on the fence.
that’s my impression too
It sounds like a “pre-offer.” “Ben, if you want it, I will formally offer it to you.”
This allows Ben his dignity. Let’s pray for wisdom to apply to Ben. Maybe out of the bad fits for this ill conceived bureaucracy (no right way to do the wrong thing), Ben is the least bad of them all. The right thing would be to re-envision the role of HUD, while trying to avoid a calamitous upset while that is going on. Ben is at least versed enough in American founding philosophy to know the right thing, I believe. Return HUD-like activities to the states, at the least. The Constitution of the USA is ill suited for welfare activities on this level, and has to be distorted to keep them up. State constitutions, less of a problem.
HUD doesn’t make sense. HHS maybe....
Ben was on Dobbs last night and said he and Donald had discussed several areas and that he was taking Thanksgiving to think HUD and other areas and also said he was praying for guidance.
Gov Walker was first off the stage during the GOP primary. Yet, he was the one who put up with all the unions and recalls in Wisconsin. Maybe Ben is the same way inside the boardroom
Why not Surgeon General? Seems much more relevant to Carson. HUD needs much higher energy management.
It is fascinating that Obama wants to stop “fake news” but the exact opposite happens!! It is wild, like some kind of covert verbal code between him and his crazy leftist fascist media!
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