“Maybe the words are inaccurate, but that actuality that you’re offered a adventitious to appear one of the aggressive academies, you are in aftereffect accepting a scholarship because cipher pays a dime,” Watts said Friday.
Politico said in an editor's agenda Friday that it stood by its aboriginal advertisement on the story. If asked for animadversion about Carson's advertence to its advertisement beforehand today as a "political hit job," a Politico agent directed ABC News to its editor's note, which reads:
"The aboriginal adventure and banderole said that Carson's attack had accepted he 'fabricated' a 'full scholarship' from West Point, but now Carson denies that his campaign’'s account constituted such an admission, and the adventure and banderole were afflicted to reflect that. POLITICO's advertisement accustomed that Carson said he accustomed a 'full scholarship' from West Point, in autograph and in accessible appearances over the years -- but in actuality he did not and there is in fact no such affair as a 'full scholarship' to the taxpayer-funded academy. And today in acknowledgment to POLITICO he accustomed for the aboriginal time that was not the case. Carson never absolutely wrote that he had activated for acceptance to West Point, although that was the bright association of his affirmation to accept accustomed an action of a 'full scholarship,' a point that POLITICO’s antecedent address should accept fabricated clear."
This is the abounding extract of what Carson wrote in his autobiography, "Gifted Hands":
"At the end of my twelfth brand I marched at the arch of the Memorial Day parade. I acquainted so proud, my chest beginning with ribbons and braids of every kind. To accomplish it added wonderful, we had important visitors that day. Two soldiers who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor in Viet Nam were present. Added agitative to me, General William Westmoreland (very arresting in the Viet Nam war) abounding with an absorbing entourage. Afterward, Sgt. Hunt alien me to General Westmoreland, and I had banquet with him and the Congressional Medal winners. Later I was offered a abounding scholarship to West Point. I didn’t debris the scholarship outright, but I let them apperceive that a aggressive career wasn’t area I saw myself going. As charmed as I acquainted to be offered such a scholarship, I wasn’t absolutely tempted. The scholarship would accept answerable me to absorb four years in aggressive account afterwards finishing college, precluding my affairs to go on to medical school. I knew my administration – I capital to be a doctor, and annihilation would alter me or angle in the way. Of advance the action of a abounding scholarship flattered me. I was developing aplomb in my abilities – just like my mother had been cogent me for at atomic he accomplished ten years.”
Carson has aswell faced skepticism afterwards a amount of humans who knew him if he was growing up told CNN they did not anamnesis his announcement any acrimony or abandon during his childhood. Carson has said he was agitated growing up, including cogent a adventure in "Gifted Hands" in which he declared already aggravating to ache a acquaintance or relative.
Carson said he stood by those stories, and that admitting the reports, he will not be authoritative any changes in his attack affective forward.
"We acquaint the truth. We accord with the issues," he said. "I'm not a politician, so you know, you're not traveling to acquisition me acting like a politician."
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