Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is in the unusual position of needing to prove that yes, he really did try to murder someone that one time and isn’t just making it up because Republican voters in Iowa like their candidates a hair’s breadth away from shanking a fella. Toward this end, he’s now saying that he’d maybe be willing to reveal the true identity of the victim—but only if the press doesn’t, it seems, check up on it?
"But I do have this deal to make. If the media will promise that they will not bother this person or any of the other people, and if they promise that they will be honest, truthful and apply everything to everyone equally from now on, I will reveal this person," he told Couric. "Is that fair?"
Wow, good question. Is that fair?
"The person that I tried to stab I talked to today, said would they want to be revealed. They were not anxious to be revealed," he told Fox News' Megyn Kelly. "It was a close relative of mine and I didn't want to put their lives under the spotlight."
Between almost getting stabbed and now becoming a bargaining chip for Carson whether he wants to be “revealed” or not, I’m betting this poor fellow goes to bed every night wishing he wasn’t a close relative of Ben Carson.