Donald Trump Fires Ben Carson From His VP Selection Team

TheDailyBeast.com:

Ben Carson has the ability to say everything he shouldn’t at exactly the wrong time.
Since the former neurosurgeon has taken up the role of working on Donald Trump’s vice presidential team, he has suggested that the candidate may pick a Democratic running mate, dropped she-who-must-not-be-named Sarah Palin as a potential pick and earlier generally questioned a number of the presumptive nominee’s habits from his Twitter use to lack of pragmatism. 

So he was off the VP team in a hurry. 

Last week, Armstrong Williams (his business manager and close confidant), told The Daily Beast that Carson left the team of his own volition. Carson had bigger and more important things to do, according to Williams, like preparing Trump for his meeting with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. 

But three sources close to the Trump campaign said Carson didn’t leave on his own. He was pushed. 

According to sources close to Trump’s campaign, Carson was demoted after Trump specifically wanted him to head up the VP selection team. He submitted names that he thought would be valuable picks and inevitably lost his top spot days later. Carson allegedly called Trump afterwards and was angry that the situation played out like this. 

In the absence of a person to head up the operation, embattled campaign manager Corey Lewandowski stepped in and took over the spot, as first reported by The Washington Post. The Daily Beast has confirmed that Lewandowski is still in charge of the process.

About freaking time. Carson's habit of saying the most ass-backwards statements to the press, plus speaking out of turn from the Trump campaign, only added to the long list of reasons of why his own campaign for the Republican nomination failed. Plus, at this point, who needs him anyway?

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