“The secular progressives try to ridicule it anytime it comes up, and they’re welcome to do that,” he added.ĭuring an interview with the Miami Heraldon Wednesday, Carson admitted that he was not well briefed on the so-called wet-foot, dry-foot policy that determines which Cuban immigrants are allowed to stay and which are immediately deported. And I don’t think it’d just disappear over the course of time to store that much grain,” he told students, according to the video posted.Ĭarson defended his beliefs on Thursday, telling reporters in Miami that “some people believe in the Bible, like I do, and don’t find that to be silly at all and believe that God created the Earth and don’t find that to be silly at all.” But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big if you stop and think about it. Now all the archaeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs’ graves. “My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain. On Wednesday, BuzzFeed published an article featuring a video of the then-Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon delivering a commencement address at Andrews College in 1998 in which he discussed his belief that the pyramids in Egypt were built as granaries, not as tombs for pharaohs. And if they come forward on their own, because of your story, that’s fine, but I’m not going to expose them,” he told the reporter at a Miami book signing for his latest work. “Well, why would you be able to find them? What makes you think you would be able to find them? Unless I tell you who they are. The knife hit his big, heavy ROTC buckle with such force that the blade snapped and dropped to the ground.” He has used the story to share his personal journey from troubled youth to highly successful surgeon.Ĭarson responded defensively on Thursday to a CNN reporter’s questions about identifying his victims. With all the power of my young muscles, I thrust the knife toward his belly. He wrote in his 1990 best-selling autobiography, “Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story,” in recounting an incident where as an adolescent he tried to stab a friend: “Grabbing the camping knife I carried in my back pocket, I snapped it open and lunged for the boy who had been my friend. “I was trying to kill somebody,” Carson told a San Francisco audience in September. It could not find anyone who would say they were a victim of Carson’s or even had knowledge about the incidents. On Thursday, CNN published a report in which reporters interviewed nine friends, former classmates and neighbors to try to corroborate Carson’s accounts of personal violence against his mother and acquaintances as a child and as an adolescent. Here’s an updated rundown of Carson’s most controversial comments from his campaign and others that have made waves in the past:
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