How Carson refused a DNA test to settle a 'blackmail' paternity suit
The week before the fourth Republican presidential primary debate on Tuesday, sometime Republican presidential front-runner Ben Carson has faced some tough questions about his past. In a twist perhaps unique in modern presidential politics, he’s had to defend the veracity of stories he’s often repeated about behaving badly — trying to knife a classmate at 14, hitting another classmate with a lock in his hand, trying to hit his mother with a hammer — that show how his faith helped save him from the rough streets of Detroit.
And, after battling detractors over the weekend who said some of these tales couldn’t be verified, Carson had had enough.
“It’s time to really move on,” he said Sunday on “Meet the Press.” “It’s not time to spend every single day talking about something that happened 50 years ago.”
But whether it’s the pediatric neurosurgeon’s strange theories about the Egyptian pyramids or his opinion that armed Jews could have “greatly diminished” the Holocaust, there always seems to be another Carson tale worth re-examining. And, as Republicans gather in Milwaukee for the Fox Business Network debate Tuesday night, one very strange Carson tale has yet to be delved into: the candidate’s contention, discussed in speeches and an op-ed as recently as last year, that he was sued for paternity by an unnamed woman in Florida and refused to give a DNA sample to resolve the case.
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And, after battling detractors over the weekend who said some of these tales couldn’t be verified, Carson had had enough.
“It’s time to really move on,” he said Sunday on “Meet the Press.” “It’s not time to spend every single day talking about something that happened 50 years ago.”
But whether it’s the pediatric neurosurgeon’s strange theories about the Egyptian pyramids or his opinion that armed Jews could have “greatly diminished” the Holocaust, there always seems to be another Carson tale worth re-examining. And, as Republicans gather in Milwaukee for the Fox Business Network debate Tuesday night, one very strange Carson tale has yet to be delved into: the candidate’s contention, discussed in speeches and an op-ed as recently as last year, that he was sued for paternity by an unnamed woman in Florida and refused to give a DNA sample to resolve the case.
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