Trolling and spamming every poster in this thread isn’t going to get you very far. Carson claimed he was offered a “full scholarship to West Point”.
It never happened.
Carson lied.
Travel from A to B to C, son, it isn’t hard.
doesn’t everyone who goes to west point get a ‘scholarship’? meaning doesn’t pay tuition, but has to serve in the military? If I was 17/18, I would consider no tuition a scholarship.
If the most powerful General in the war says you can get an appointment with his grades, it was a valid offer. He never lied no matter how much you want it to be.
It is not like lying directly to a family about their dead son.
I think we all understand embellishment. For example, Carson claims he ate dinner with Gen. Westmoreland. Let say it was a 1500 seat, $10 a plate dinner. If Carson was one of those 1500 attendees, he could legitimately claim he ate dinner with the general. However, there’s a huge difference between sitting 10 or more tables away and maybe having a few words with the general versus sitting at the head table and having an in depth conversation with the general.
Embellishment typically involves relating events in the most favorable way and leaving things unsaid that a listener could interpret in a more favorable light. It’s deceptive, but it’s not necessarily a lie.
In regards to West Point, Carson claimed he was offered a full scholarship. Now his campaign is saying that was an outright falsehood, aka a lie.