Highlights:
VIDEO: Carson Said That Donald Trump Had Never Done Anything That Was A Threat To American Democracy. According to CNN via Mediaite, “HOST: As someone who's endorsed him, can you point to anything that Donald Trump has done to defend American democracy? CARSON: I can't point to anything that he has done that is a threat to democracy. And that's a real question here if you say.” [CNN via Mediaite, 11/4/23]
VIDEO: Carson Said That Trump’s Actions After 2020 Was “A Matter Of Perspective.” According to CNN via Mediaite, **“**PHILLIP: “What about January 6th? What about his actions after the November election in 2020 where he tried to undermine the results of a free and fair election? What about that? CARSON: The fact that he felt that the eletcion had been rigged, had been stolen. That’s something we’ve seen for election after election going back many decades, famously Hilary Clinton questioned the 2016 election. So, you know, it’s really a matter of perspective.” [CNN via Mediaite, 11/4/23]
Carson Was Not A Member Of The Administration That Resigned After January 6, As Many Other Administration Officials Did. According to the Wall Street Journal, “A number of Trump administration officials have resigned following the violence Wednesday Jan. 6 when pro-Trump rioters invaded the Capitol building and threatened lawmakers. Here’s the full list so far: Betsy DeVos, Education Secretary […] Elaine Chao, Transportation Secretary […] Chad Wolf, acting secretary of Homeland Security […] Mick Mulvaney, the U.S. special envoy for Northern Ireland and the former acting White House chief of staff […] Matthew Pottinger, the deputy national security adviser with a special focus on relations with China […] Tyler Goodspeed, the acting chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers […] John Costello, deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and security at the Commerce Department […] Stephanie Grisham, chief of staff and press secretary to first lady Melania Trump […] Sarah Matthews, White House deputy press secretary […] Rickie Niceta, the White House social secretary.” [Wall Street Journal, 1/11/21]
Carson Tweeted That He Had Not Thought About Invoking The 25th Amendment After January 6. According to Ben Carson’s Twitter, “As a Nation we need to heal. I have not talked to anyone about invoking the 25th Amendment, and I am focused on finishing what I started in uplifting the forgotten women and men of America.” [Twitter via The Hill, 1/8/21]
VIDEO: Carson Said That It Might Be “Very Reasonable” For Trump To Pardon Himself Regarding January 6th. According to CNN, “PHILLIP: Since Trump, as we've been discussing, has avoided all debates so far, and frankly, a lot of serious policy questions like Ron DeSantis, for example, answered tonight in his town hall, I wonder if you could answer a yes or no to just a few questions here. Just -- the question here is, would you support Trump doing the following things in his administration if he's elected? So, I'll start with this. A self-pardon for January 6th crimes. Would you support Trump doing that? CARSON: I think that might be very reasonable.” [CNN Live via Youtube, 1/16/24]
VIDEO: Carson Said That The Department Of Justice Was Being Weaponized Against Trump And The Proof Is That He Had More Indictments Than Al Capone. According to Carson’s interview with CNN, “PHILLIPS: What are they seeing that you’re not seeing? CARSON: I think the better question is, what are they not seeing. And they are not seeing the big picture. If, as I said, we allow our Justice Department to be weaponized, we will have lost something very precious and important. We will become line a banana republic. And that is incredibly important. We would have lost the republic that Benjamin Franklin talked about. PHILLIPS: But what evidence do you have, Dr. Carson, that the Justice Department has been weaponized against Trump, specifically? I mean, there’s no evidence of that. CARSON: Well, let’s put it this way. Al Capone, who was a notorious killer, had one indictment and Donald Trump has four indictments. That would tell you something right there.” [CNN via Twitter, 11/1/23]
Carson Said That The Department Of Justice Was Acting Like A Dictatorship By Prosecuting Trump. According to the Epoch Times, “In addition, Dr. Carson warned of the dangers facing the republic, including the politicization of government institutions such as the Department of Justice. He believes in three core Biblical ideals to guide the nation: love for God, love for fellow man, and love for the nation. ‘You look at the fact that the Department of Justice is being used to eliminate or to try to eliminate a major presidential candidate, rather than allowing the people to make that decision. Those are the kinds of things that happen in monarchy and dictatorial situations.’” [Epoch Times, 3/20/2024]
Carson: “It’s Now Clear The Jan. 6 Committee Did Not Want You To Believe That The Vast Majority Of Protesters Were Completely Peaceful.” According to Ben Carson’s op-ed in the Washington Examiner, “Nobody is here to defend the violence and intimidation applied against the Capitol Police and others on Jan. 6. But it’s now clear the Jan. 6 committee did not want you to believe that the vast majority of protesters were completely peaceful.” [Washington Examiner, Op-Ed, Ben Carson, 3/15/23]
Carson: “We Also Know That FBI Informants Were Among The Crowd That Entered The Capitol On Jan. 6.” According to Ben Carson’s op-ed in the Washington Examiner, “We also know that FBI informants were among the crowd that entered the Capitol on Jan. 6. We know that many in the media and the Democratic Party lied when they said that Officer Brian Sicknick was bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher by Trump supporters. In reality, Sicknick died from strokes the next day, a death which the Washington Medical Examiner classified as ‘natural causes.’” [Washington Examiner, Op-Ed, Ben Carson, 3/15/23]
CARSON CALLED THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE UNFAIR AND POLITICIZED FOR THE PROSECUTION OF TRUMP
Carson Claimed That It Was Impossible For People Associated With Trump To Get A Fair Trial. According to Human Events Daily, “Posobiec specifically asked Carson for his thoughts regarding the ‘praying grandma,’ Rebecca Lavrenz who was in attendance at the Trump rally that day and has been convicted on four misdemeanor counts after spending 10 minutes inside the Capitol that day. Carson responded, ‘It shows you that it's impossible for a conservative or somebody associated with Trump to get a fair trial.’” [Human Events Daily, 4/5/24]
Carson Said That The Department Of Justice Was Politicized And Causing The U.S. To Become A Monarchy. According to Human Events Daily, “’But the real problem here,’ [Carson] pointed out, ‘is that our Justice Department is being commandeered by a political party to punish its political opponents.’ He explained that in 1787, founding father Benjamin Franklin declared the United States a republic, ‘if you can keep it,’ distinguishing it from a monarchy when asked. ‘We kept it for over 240 years, we're as close to losing it right now as we ever have been,’ Carson said. This, he said, is exemplified by the weaponization of the Department of Justice against American citizens and political adversaries under the Biden regime. If the right continues to allow this, ‘we will indeed have lost it, and we will never get it back.’” [Human Events Daily, 4/5/24]
VIDEO: Carson On The 2020 Election: “There Was Plenty Of Fraud. There’s No Question About That. And I Think Everybody Acknowledges That It Was Fraud.” According to Carson’s interview with Michelle Bachman at Regent University “BACHMAN: What could the United States have done differently to prevent the fraud in this last election? Or maybe you don’t think there was fraud in the last election? CARSON: Well, there was plenty of fraud. There’s no question about that. And I think everybody acknowledges that it was fraud. Well, we have people that say, ‘Yes, there was fraud, but it wasn’t enough fraud.’ You’ll notice that the courts really haven’t looked at the evidence that exists. It’s almost as if they’re afraid to look at the evidence that exists. It would be incumbent upon all of our mediums to insist that we look at the evidence. If there’s nothing to hide, what’s the problem with looking at the evidence? [Regent University, Video Interview, 3/31/21]
VIDEO: Carson: “The 2020 Election Was A National Disgrace And The Media Still Refuses To Tell The Truth About It.” According to Carson’s interview with Michelle Bachman at Regent University, “CARSON: The 2020 election was a national disgrace and the media still refuses to tell the truth about it. We know. … And it’s a question of how much fraud is acceptable. Some have said, ‘Well, it’s just a little bit of fraud.’ Again, I turn to the definitions because fraud is an intentional act of deceit. So, how many intentional acts of deception should we accept in our elections? [Regent University, Video Interview, 3/31/21]
Carson Tweeted That There Were “Legitimate Concerns” About The 2020 Election. According to Carson’s archived Twitter, he tweeted, “End this violence now. Violence is never an appropriate response regardless of legitimate concerns. Please remember: if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” [Twitter, @secretarycarson, 1/6/21]
VIDEO: Carson Said That There Was Fraud In The 2020 Election And The Media Would Not Talk About It Because They Wanted To Push Their Own Narrative. According to Carson’s interview with Michelle Bachman at Regent University, “CARSON: Merely bringing up questionable practices, as has been well documented—all of this voter fraud. If you do that, you get excoriated in the media. Now, why is that? It’s because they have their own narrative to push and they do it by shutting down any conversation about election abnormalities and, yes, fraud. [Regent University, Video Interview, 3/31/21]
VIDEO: Carson Said He Was Looking Forward To Discussing The 2020 Election Discrepancies Because No One Had Been Talking About It In The Media. According to Carson’s interview with Michelle Bachman at Regent University, “CARSON: So many people are afraid in the states to speak up and particularly on an issue like election integrity. I always say we can’t be the land of the free, if we’re not the home of the brave. This is so important. And particularly at a time like this, where we’re talking about the health of our Republic, we need to talk about election integrity. And I look forward to a robust exchange of ideas today, particularly given the fact that so many people for too long have been concerned about some of the discrepancies in the 2020 election, but no one talks about it. [Regent University, Video Interview, 3/31/21]
VIDEO: Carson Said That Election Integrity Was One Of The Most Important Issues Facing The American Public. According to Carson’s interview with Michelle Bachman at Regent University, “CARSON: Election integrity, in my opinion, is one of the most important issues facing America today. And it’s important that we get it right. Americans must have confidence in our institutions. A recent poll in January found that among Trump voters, 40% said Trump definitely won. And another 36 say he probably won. That’s 76%. Only 7% of Trump voters concede that Biden definitely won the 2020 election. [Regent University, Video Interview, 3/31/21]
**VIDEO: Carson Said That America Was In A “New Era” Of Voter Fraud After The 2020 Election.**According to Carson’s interview with Michelle Bachman at Regent University, “BACHMAN: Dr. Carson, do you think we have entered into a new era of voter fraud and election integrity? CARSON: We’ve entered into a new era of fraud if we allow it. And that is the dividing point between whether America remains a free and prosperous nation, or whether we turn into something else. [Regent University, Video Interview, 3/31/21]
VIDEO: Carson Said That Election Integrity Needed To Be Demanded By The American People Because The Powers At Be Had No Interest In Changing The System. According to Ben Carson at the Trump rally, “CARSON: We also have to demand integrity in our system of elections. We can’t just sit around and let people dictate things. You know, have people come around say, ‘you can be a poll watcher, but you have to watch from way over there where you can’t see anything that’s going on.’ Then you just accept that? You just accept people that say, 'well the signatures don’t really have to match the mail-in ballots, the addresses don’t really matter, you’re trying to disenfranchise people and keep people from voting. You don’t need a voter ID.’” [Ben Carson via Rumble, 1/15/24]
**VIDEO: Carson Said That France Eliminated Mail-In Voting Because Of Cheating Concerns.**According to Ben Carson at the Trump rally, “Do you know that the French outlawed mail-in balloting in 1975. Why did they do it? They said there was just too much cheating, that you just couldn’t control it no matter how hard they tried. And you’ll notice with they’re elections, you know the same day or the next day. With 60 million people, they count those ballots. So, it can be done, the reason that we haven’t done it is because there’s obviously people who don’t want to reform the system.” [Ben Carson via Rumble, 1/15/24]
Carson Said That The January 6th Committee “Called Into Question Whether Ordinary Americans Could Be Treated Fairly By Our Government And Media.” According to Ben Carson’s op-ed in the Washington Examiner, “The Jan. 6 committee was formed to ‘investigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol.’ Countless subpoenas, interviews, hearings, 19 months, and an 800-page report later, one segment on Tucker Carlson challenged the carefully shaped narrative of that day. It called into question whether ordinary Americans could be treated fairly by our government and the media. Instead of transparency and discourse, congressional leaders immediately called for draconian censorship.” [Washington Examiner, Op-Ed, Ben Carson, 3/15/23]
Carson: “The Jan. 6 Committee Was An Exercise In Political Theater, Intent On Hiding The Full Truth From The Public.” According to Ben Carson’s op-ed in the Washington Examiner, “We know the Jan. 6 committee was an exercise in performance theater, intent on hiding the full truth from the public and instead motivated by a desire to weaponize the organs of the federal government against former President Donald Trump and his supporters. And we know that the trials, legal fees, subpoenas, pretrial detentions, solitary confinement, and imprisonment of Trump supporters who merely walked into the Capitol building, sometimes after being pointed in that direction by Capitol police, amounts to nothing short of political persecution. Again, violent rioters on the Left have consistently gotten away without punishment for far more violent activity. This isn’t another case of whataboutism but rather an expectation of truth, justice, and fairness from our institutions.” [Washington Examiner, Op-Ed, Ben Carson, 3/15/23]