Carson: ‘I Would Not Be Anxious to Have a Commander-in-Chief’ Who Acts Like Trump

Ben Carson criticized Donald Trump this morning for jumping on the bandwagon to criticize him over perceived inconsistencies in his life story.

On ABC’s This Week, Carson again told George Stephanopoulos the media is being overly critical and unfair to him. Stephanopoulos brought up a recent WSJ report raising questions about an anecdote in Carson’s book involving a test from a professor and a photo in the school paper.

Carson said he found the article and simply got the name of the course wrong, which is why there weren’t records of it.

As for Trump, Stephanopoulos brought up how quickly The Donald pounced to criticize him for the inconsistencies, calling West Point “one of many lies” and predicting the beginning of the end of his campaign.

Carson asked, “What does it say about people who immediately jump on the bandwagon when they hear something bad rather than waiting and finding out what the truth is?… I would not be anxious to have a Commander-in-Chief who acts like that.”

Watch above, via ABC.

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