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Whatever Happened to Dr. Ben Carson?
There is no love lost between Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and the House of Representatives Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA). In a scathing letter to the Congresswoman, Carson has charged Waters with not only hypocrisy, but with a lack of “basic manners,” calling out her response to the burgeoning homeless problem in her congressional district:
“My mother always taught me that people shouldn’t throw rocks,” wrote the good doctor, “especially while they live in a glass house. Because of that wise lesson, I was a little surprised to read your hostile letter to President Trump regarding the record number of homeless Americans in California, particularly in your district.”
Waters had written Trump last month seeking clarity on reports that the Trump regime had plans in the works to remove wholesale all homeless people from California streets.
It was in Waters’ original letter that the “shameless” accusation was first hurled. Referring to Trump himself, Waters told the Electoral College-elected “president” that, “Your shamelessness knows no bounds.”
Obviously and clearly, and because both Waters and Carson are black (Trump really is that “transparent” on issues involving “race”), rather than resort to his normal twitter tirade to make his usual “nasty” retort, Trump…