Former presidential candidate Ben Carson defended linking Hillary Clinton to Lucifer the night prior.
Speaking at the end of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night, Carson criticized the presumed Democratic nominee for admiring Saul Alinsky, the far-left activist who praised Lucifer in his 1971 infamous book, “Rules for Radicals.” Clinton wrote her senior thesis at Wellesley College about Alinsky, whom Carson said was one of her “mentors.”
“This is a nation where every bill in our wallet says ‘In God we trust,'” Carson said in his Tuesday night remarks. “Are we willing to elect as president someone who has as their role model somebody who acknowledges Lucifer?”
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Alinsky called Lucifer “the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment.”
On CNN’s “New Day” early Wednesday morning, Carson defended linking the two.
“You seem contextually to make it like Hillary Clinton’s carrying it [“Rules for Radicals”] around in her back pocket,” “New Day” co-host Chris Cuomo asked Carson early Wednesday morning.
The retired neurosurgeon replied: “Well, here’s the point: We all have people who are our mentors. We all have people we admire. As a college student, she was on a first-name basis with Saul Alinsky. He offered her a job, but she decided to go to law school. They were very close. you look at some of the letters.”
Carson added that he too had a mentor — but that was his mother.
“You know, she had a difficult upbringing, but she never let me be a victim. And the person that I am today has a lot to do with who I admire and who is my role model,” he explained.
Carson ended his 2016 presidential campaign in March, and soon after endorsed Donald Trump.
