Questions Swirl Around Carson’s Claims of Stabbing And Being Robbed
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Ben Carson’s accounts of stabbing someone and being robbed have changed over the years, and can’t be found in one of his books as claimed.
As a teenager, I would go after people with rocks, and bricks, and baseball bats, and hammers,” Carson said. “And, of course, many people know the story when I was 14 and I tried to stab someone. And, you know, fortunately … my life has been changed. And I’m a very different person now.”
However, the details about that stabbing attempt keep changing in the 20 years Carson has been telling the story,reported The Daily Beast.
Carson first told the story in two books published in 1996, describing how he allegedly attacked a friend named “Bob” with a pocket knife during an argument over the future candidate’s love for classical music.
The attempt ends with the knife blade hitting Bob’s belt buckle, and Carson says he apologized, ran home and eventually became a Christian as a result of the incident.
The details of the story change somewhat in retellings over four subsequent books.
In some accounts, Carson attacks his friend with a “large camping knife,” but sometimes it’s just a pocketknife, and some tellings place the scene at Bob’s house while other tellings take place at Carson’s home…
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Carson’s campaign declined to answer The Daily Beast’s questions about the apparent discrepancies about the knife attack.
His campaign also shut down similar questions about Carson’s claims that he was held at gunpoint at a “Popeye’s organization” in Baltimore, Maryland, near Johns Hopkins University.
Baltimore police said Carson’s description of the event, which he shared the day after survivors of a mass shooting in Oregon slammed the candidate for suggesting they should have stopped the gunman, could not be verified…
Carson’s “business manager” and central advisor, Armstrong Williams, claimed the candidate had described the story in his 2006 book, “Take The Risk,” although The Daily Beast could find no mention of the anecdote.
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