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Undated: Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American politician, author and former neurosurgeon serving as the 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development since 2017, under the Trump Administration. Prior to his cabinet position, he was a candidate for President of the United States in the Republican primaries in 2016.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, and a graduate of Yale University and the University of Michigan Medical School, Carson has authored numerous books on his medical career and political stances. He was the subject of a television drama film in 2009.
He was the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland from 1984 until his retirement in 2013. As a pioneer in neurosurgery, Carson's achievements include performing the only successful separation of conjoined twins joined at the back of the head; pioneering the first successful neurosurgical procedure on a fetus inside the womb; performing the first completely successful separation of type-2 vertical craniopagus twins; developing new methods to treat brain-stem tumors; and reviving hemispherectomy techniques for controlling seizures.[3][4][5] He became the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the country at age 33.[6] He has received more than 60 honorary doctorate degrees, dozens of national merit citations, and written over 100 neurosurgical publications.[7] In 2008, he was bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.[8]
Carson's widely publicized speech at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast catapulted him to conservative fame for his views on social and political issues.[9] On May 4, 2015, he announced he was running for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election at a rally in his hometown of Detroit.[10] In March 2016, following the Super Tuesday primaries, he suspended his campaign and announced he would be the new national chairman of My Faith Votes, a group that encourages Christians to exercise their civic duty to vote.[11][12] He then endorsed the candidacy of Donald Trump.[13]
On March 2, 2017, Carson was confirmed by the United States Senate as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in a 58–41 vote.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson
-- 2015 --
September 10: Trump: "Ben Carson, You Look At His Faith, You Are Not Going To Find Much"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/09/10/trump_ben_carson_you_look_at_his_faith_you_are_not_going_to_find_much.html
November 12: Trump likens Carson's 'pathology' to that of a child molester
https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/12/politics/donald-trump-ben-carson-child-molester/index.html
-- 2016 --
February 16: Trump confuses Barack Obama for Ben Carson
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/donald-trump-confuses-barack-obama-ben-carson-gaffe-219352
December 5: Trump Chooses Ben Carson to Lead HUD
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/us/politics/ben-carson-housing-urban-development-trump.html
-- 2017 --
August: Is Anybody Home at HUD?
A long-harbored conservative dream — the “dismantling of the administrative state” — is taking place under Secretary Ben Carson.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/08/ben-carson-hud-secretary.html
-- 2018 --
February 28: Trump Cabinet Officials Keep Facing Family Trouble
Ben Carson is the third member of Donald Trump’s Cabinet to face controversy sparked by a close relative, raising questions among ethics experts about how seriously the Administration is taking federal rules about family involvement.
The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development faced criticism this week after the Guardian reported that a career official was demoted for what she said was refusing to break the law to redecorate his office at the request of his wife, Candy.
Federal law requires congressional approval “to furnish or redecorate the office of a department head” at costs above $5,000. Helen Foster claims the acting HUD director at the time told her that “$5,000 will not even buy a decent chair” and that she had to “‘find money’ for Mrs. Carson.”
http://time.com/5179045/ben-carson-family-trump-shulkin-linton/
June 9: Ben Carson walks back plan to triple rent for poor
Speaking at the Bipartisan Policy Center, Carson said additional funding from Congress eliminated the immediate need to raise rents.
"The reason we had to consider raising rents at all is because we were dealing with a $41 billion budget," Carson said. "And in order to be able to keep from raising rents on the elderly and the disabled, and in order to not displace people who are already being taken care of, that was necessary."
"Now that the budget has been changed, the necessity for doing that is not urgent," he added.
August 20: In the city that claims him, Ben Carson falls from grace
The portrait used to hang in the hallway, welcoming children and parents to the Archbishop Borders School in Baltimore: a smiling Dr. Ben Carson in surgical scrubs, rubbing together the careful, steady hands that helped him become the nation’s most famous black doctor.
“The person who has the most to do with your success is you,” it reads.
That was before Carson’s presidential bid, before he withdrew from the race and endorsed Donald Trump, and before he was tapped to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development. It was before the president failed to condemn white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia. And before Carson pushed policies critics say walk back civil rights protections for those living in subsidized housing.
https://www.apnews.com/ff998257e52c4cebb0f54b388cbcd212
September 21: Trump HUD Secretary Ben Carson claims Kavanaugh allegations are part of a centuries old socialist plot
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/21/hud-secretary-ben-carson-kavanaugh-allegation-is-part-of-a-socialist-plot.html
October 19: Trump admin says Ben Carson peddled ‘100 percent false information’
Seven days ago, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson announced that one of his aides, Suzanne Israel Tufts, was leaving her post – after just seven months – to serve as the Interior Department’s inspector general. This quickly turned into a rather elaborate mess.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-admin-says-ben-carson-peddled-100-percent-false-information
November 9: Ben Carson: Trump says to me all the time, 'Aren't you glad you didn't win?'
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ben-carson-trump-says-to-me-all-the-time-arent-you-glad-you-didnt-win
November 13: Ben Carson, other Detroit schools could be in for name change
https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2018/11/13/detroit-school-name-change-ben-carson/1994539002/
November 17: Black conservative group opposes renaming Ben Carson school in Detroit
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2018/11/17/black-conservative-group-opposes-renaming-ben-carson-school/2039974002/
November 19: Detroit School Board Votes To Remove Ben Carson's Name From High School
Among those who want Carson’s name removed from the high school, however, is LaMar Lemmons, a board member, who claimed that residents “don’t support the [Trump] administration.”
Last week, Lemmons told the Washington Post, that having Carson’s name on the school was “synonymous with having Trump’s name on our school in blackface.”
Carson, he contended, “is doing Trump’s bidding, and he has adversely affected the African American community in Detroit as well as the nation with his housing policies.”
“And he’s allied himself with a president that says he is a white nationalist and sends dog whistles that even the deaf can hear,” Lemmons added.
https://www.essence.com/news/detroit-school-board-votes-to-remove-ben-carsons-name-from-high-school/
December 26: Yes, Ben Carson Is Still in Trump’s Cabinet. And Congressional Probes Could Be Coming His Way.
Here are five possibilities.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/yes-ben-carson-is-still-in-trumps-cabinet-and-congressional-probes-could-be-coming-his-way/
-- 2019 --
January 8: NYCHA’s future rests with Trump’s Ben Carson
The next four weeks can decide the fate of public housing in New York City.
Late in December, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson toured the Queensbridge Houses, and then met with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to discuss the state and the fate of the New York City Housing Authority.
Earlier in December, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and the New York City Housing Authority filed a joint status report updating the federal court on the progress of fixing the living conditions in NYCHAs properties.
HUD officials also sent a letter to NYCHA, stating that the agency had until Jan. 31 to produce a worthy action plan to fix NYCHA’s issues of mold, heat, vermin, elevators, lead problems and corrupt management.
Carson said that he’d do anything necessary to remedy his and President Donald Trump’s issues with NYCHA.
http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2019/jan/03/nychas-future-rests-trumps-ben-carson/
February 11: Secretary of HUD Ben Carson sent one of President Trump’s most loyal Black supporters Monday to live temporarily in New York City public housing to find out what we already know about the poor quality of the projects.
Lynne Patton announced on Sunday that she will live in four different public housing properties for one week each as a guest of four families
https://newsone.com/3846018/hud-nycha-lynne-patton-ben-caron/
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