Ben Carson Camp: NY Times 'Took Advantage of Elderly Man'

Carson is just trying anything at this point.

Ben Carson’s camp is scrambling to cover the tread marks left by a damning New York Times story, which said Carson’s own advisors doubted his ability to understand foreign policy.

Part of the Times’s report was based on an interview with Carson’s “top advisor” Duane Clarridge. Carson’s team now says Clarridge was simply a confused old man and shame on the Times:

Mr. Clarridge has incomplete knowledge of the daily, not weekly briefings, that Dr. Carson receives on important national security matters from former military and State Department officials.

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