'First they tried to ruin his reputation ... then last weekend they tried to kill him': Ben Carson
Dr. Ben Carson, Trump's Housing and Urban Development secretary and former 2016 presidential rival, took the stage and argued that last week's assassination attempt was part of a long line of attacks against the former president.
"First, they tried to ruin his reputation, and he's more popular now than ever. And then they tried to bankrupt him, and he's got more money now than he had before. And then they tried to put him in prison, and he's freer and has made other people free with him. And then -- and then, last weekend they tried to kill him. And there he is over there, alive and well," Carson said to applause.
Carson did not specify who "they" were.
He went on to criticize the media and the government for dividing the nation contending the latter was "shredding our constitution and upending the rule of law.