Carson added there are ‘two sides to every story’ while defending the Supreme Court nominee.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Friday questioned the credibility of the woman who says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her while they were in high school — by connecting it to his own story about a woman who sued him for a paternity test several years ago.
Carson, speaking to a crowd at the Value Voters Summit in Washington, D. C., called sexual predators “abominable,” but added there are “two sides to every story” — recalling the time an unidentified Florida woman claimed he was the father of her child and demanded a paternity test and child support.
“I said, ‘I have three children and I support them very well,'” he told the crowd. “They said, ‘No, there is a woman in Florida. She says you are the father of her son. And she knows where you went to high school, college, medical school, internship, residency, even has a picture of you in scrubs.'”
He added, “I said anybody can get that. Are you kidding me?… But, see, I had a secret weapon — the truth. I knew that the only woman I had ever slept with in my entire life was my wife.”
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1. He is a weekly opinion columnist for The Washington Times.
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2. He is a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and his father was a minister.
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10. He and his wife started a scholarship fund called “Carson scholars fund” in 1994 which has so far awarded 6,700 scholarships to kids for “academic excellence and humanitarian qualities.”
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Carson has told the paternity suit story on several past occasions, including in a 2014 Washington Times op-ed, saying it taught him “firsthand how the blackmail threat operates.”
Carson, who was an acclaimed neurosurgeon, also claimed during his speech that the recent sexual assault allegation made against Kavanaugh by California professor Christine Blasey Ford is part of a “desperate” attempt by the left to smear him and control the ideological makeup of the courts.
Ford alleges that Kavanaugh drunkenly tried to force himself on her while they were teenagers in Maryland in the 1980s. Kavanaugh has vehemently denied the allegation.
“They don’t like what America is and what it represents, and they want to change us to another system,” Carson said. “And in order to do that, there are three things that they must control: the educational system, the media, and the courts. OK? The first two they have. The courts they thought they had, and it was snatched out from under their noses in November of 2016.”
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US Judge Brett Kavanaugh looks on as the US President announces him as his nominee to the Supreme Court in the East Room of the White House on July 9,2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON DC — NOVEMBER 13: Brett Kavanaugh, aide to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, during a meeting in the Office of the Solicitor General on November 13,1996 in Washington DC. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
US Judge Brett Kavanaugh (L) shakes hands with US President Donald Trump after being nominated to the Supreme Court in the East Room of the White House on July 9,2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
U. S. President George W. Bush (R) listens to U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Judge Brett Kavanaugh speak, [moments after being sworn-in at a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House], in Washington June 1,2006.
U. S. President Donald Trump introduces his Supreme Court nominee judge Brett Kavanaugh in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U. S., July 9,2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis
UNITED STATES – JUNE 01: Brett Kavanaugh speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House on June 1,2006 in Washington, D. C., after being sworn in to be a judge on the U. S. Court of Appeals. (Photo by Dennis Brack/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump (R) announces US Judge Brett Kavanaugh (C) as his nominee to the Supreme Court in the East Room of the White House on July 9,2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
U. S. President George W. Bush (L) watches as Brett Kavanaugh (2nd L) is sworn in as a judge in the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy (R) in a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House in Washington June 1,2006. Kavanaugh’s wife, Ashley, holds the bible. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES)
WASHINGTON – MAY 22: District of Columbia Circut Court of Appeals nominee Brett Kavanaugh attends a news conference with Senate GOP leadership in the Capitol May 22,2006 in Washington, DC. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) said that Kavanaugh deserves a straight up-or-down vote in the Senate. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh smiles next to U. S. President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U. S., July 9,2018. REUTERS/Jim Bourg TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
WASHINGTON – MAY 22: District of Columbia Circut Court of Appeals nominee Brett Kavanaugh (L) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) hold a news conference in the Capitol May 22,2006 in Washington, DC. Frist said that Kavanaugh deserves a straight up-or-down vote in the Senate. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh smiles next to U. S. President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U. S., July 9,2018. REUTERS/Jim Bourg
WASHINGTON – MAY 22: (L-R) U. S. Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell (R-KY), District of Columbia Circut Court of Appeals nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) hold a news conference in the Capitol May 22,2006 in Washington, DC. Frist said that Kavanaugh deserves a straight up-or-down vote in the Senate. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
UNITED STATES – MAY 09: Brett Kavanaugh testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination to be U. S. Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit. (Photo By Chris Maddaloni/Roll Call/Getty Images)
UNITED STATES – MAY 09: Brett M. Kavanaugh, who last appeared before the committee in late April 2004, is sworn in to testify during a second Senate Judiciary confirmation hearing. At right are former bosses Judge Walter K. Stapleton, of the United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Wilmington, Del.
