Ben Carson touted an impressive fundraising haul Saturday in response to a spate of media stories calling his personal story into question.
“First it was CNN who after exhaustively interviewing 9 people who live in Detroit decided to call me a liar,” Carson wrote on his Facebook page Saturday afternoon. “Then it was Politico’s turn to say I lied, though it was later retracted.”
Carson was referring to a CNN investigation of claims that he had attempted to stab a friend as a young boy, an anecdote the Republican presidential candidate has repeated often in his books and public speeches.
He was also referring to a Politico story that revealed inconsistencies in his description of a meeting with a prominent general that led to a scholarship offer to West Point.
While the Politico story was quickly criticized for exaggerating the problems with Carson’s story, it did raise new questions about Carson’s credibility.
Carson blasted the article as further evidence of liberal media bias, something he has railed against on the campaign trail after the moderation at the last GOP primary debate was widely panned.
“Their bias will only make us grow bigger, better and bolder!” Carson said of the media Saturday.
“This week alone we raised $3,500,000.00 from almost 70,000 donations,” he added.
