Carson’s Popeye’s Story Not In Book As He Claims
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Ben Carson says the tale of him facing a gunman at Popeye’s and redirecting him to the person behind the counter is in his book Take the Risk. Only it isn’t.
…throughout his several published books and three autobiographies, Carson doesn’t appear to mention the story once. When The Daily Beast reached out to Carson’s “business manager” and central advisor, Armstrong Williams, he said that Carson had personally told him the story, and that it also appeared in Carson’s 2006 book, Take the Risk.
Gregg Lewis, a co-author of Take the Risk, told The Daily Beast that he and Carson never discussed the incident during his work on three autobiographies with the neurosurgeon.
“No, but that doesn’t surprise me,” said Lewis. “I haven’t heard that story. My experience with Ben Carson is that he’s incredibly truthful. If he said that happened, I would never even question it.”
Lewis suggested Carson’s humility might have caused him to omit the stick-up story.
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