Ben Carson painfully defends Donald Trump’s ‘locker room talk’

Ben Carson came to the defense of Donald Trump and his comments about women, admitting that he, too, has heard what Trump described as "locker room talk."

Gerren Keith Gaynor

Oct 11, 2016

Ben Carson has come to the defense of Donald Trump and his lewd comments about women, admitting that he, too, has heard what Trump described as “locker room talk.”

The former Republican presidential candidate did his best to explain away Trump’s statements in a recently released audio recording in 2005 of Trump bragging about kissing women and grabbing their genitals without their consent.

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During an interview on CNN, the retired neurosurgeon argued that Trump was a very different man 11 years ago when he made the controversial comments, adding that the Republican presidential nominee was a “billionaire playboy” who was not in the political sphere.

When anchor Brianna Keilar told him that she and many other people have never heard of so-called “locker room talk,” Carson fired back, “Maybe that’s the problem.”

“But whether they’ve heard it or not, the issue is the train that’s going off the cliff. We can come back after we save the country — after we keep the train from going off the cliff,” Carson said.

“And I would welcome, quite frankly, a discussion of morality in this country. I think it would be a wonderful thing if we bring back our Judeo-Christian values. I think it could do nothing but help us. I would be all in favor of that.”