For years, Dr. Ben Carson has contended that he was offered a full scholarship to West Point, a story that he tells at great length in his memoir, Gifted Hands. According to Politico, Carson now admits that story is false.
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“He was introduced to folks from West Point by his ROTC Supervisors,” Carson campaign manager Barry Bennett wrote in an email to POLITICO. “They told him they could help him get an appointment based on his grades and performance in ROTC. He considered it but in the end did not seek admission.”
The admission from the Carson campaign came after Politico had checked Carson's story against the records at West Point. West Point has no record of Carson ever applying to the school.
In Gifted Hands, Carson recounts meeting Gen. Westmoreland at a Memorial Day parade in Detroit in 1969 and being offered a scholarship to West Point after having dinner with him.
West Point does not have tuition.
When the news broke on Friday, Donald Trump, who has been aggressively attacking Carson since the former neurosurgeon overtook him in the polls, took to twitter to call out Carson's "many lies."
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