Ben Carson says the establishment news media took a comment he said and blew it way out of proportion, claiming he said things about Donald Trump that he never actually said.
Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, who served as the 17th U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021 clarified the situation recently on Washington Watch with Tony Perkins.Â
The former HUD secretary told the Family Research Council president, “Talk about distortion and lies.”Â
“First of all, I never compared him to King David. I said, if many of the people who hate and criticize Trump today had been alive at the time of King David, they would have said the same kinds of things about him, because of some of the things that he was involved in. But God can use all kinds of different people for different occasions,” Carson said.Â
“And that was the context in which it was said, and I never said anything about the Second Coming of Christ or any of these things. They just take it and distort it,” he added.Â
Perkins noted the more that liberal media outlets make accusations “the more we realize there’s a total lack of biblical knowledge when
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