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Carson campaign says account of West Point admission fabricated, POLITICO reports

By REUTERS

NOVEMBER 6, 2015 19:14

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson's campaign on Friday acknowledged he never applied nor was accepted to the US Military Academy at West Point - a tale he included in his autobiography and that he has repeated since then, POLITICO reported on Friday.

Carson's campaign said the account of receiving a scholarship offer from the prestigious military school was a fabrication. The details of a scholarship were included in Carson's account of a meeting with General William Westmoreland in 1969 when Carson was a high school student in the ROTC program, which provides preliminary military training for students interested in becoming officers.

"He was introduced to folks from West Point by his ROTC supervisors," campaign manager Barry Bennett told POLITICO in an email. "They told him they could help him get an appointment based on his grades and performance in ROTC. He considered it but in the end did not seek admission."

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