Trump on Carson: ‘I’m Sure’ Ben Would Host SNL if Asked

TAPPER: “Speaking of Dr. Carson, he found himself this week under increasing scrutiny this week, facing questions about how accurate his stories about his past have been about how violent he was, about whether or not he received an offer from West Point, whether he was the most honest student in a class he took at Yale. You told ‘The Washington Post’ that all the scrutiny this week for Carson is the beginning of the end for him. What do you mean by that?” 
TRUMP: “Well, it certainly is. It's a lot of scrutiny. And, frankly, it's a lot of -- a lot of statements that are under fire. And I hope -- I hope Ben is going to be OK with it. It's going to be interesting to see what happens. Time will tell. But it is certainly -- a lot of people are asking a lot of questions all of a sudden. And, you know, it's -- it's a little bit tough. I would say it's not so easy on Ben. I hope it comes -- I hope, frankly, it comes out great for him.” 
TAPPER: “Do you think that he has not been honest?” 
TRUMP: “I just don't know. I mean, I'm not involved. I don't really know. It's a lot of things. I -- when you say, though, hitting your mother over the head with a hammer, when you talk about hitting a friend in the face with a lock, a padlock, and you talk about stabbing someone and it got stopped by a belt buckle, which, you know, belt buckles really pretty much don't stop a stabbing. They turn and twist and things slide off them. So, you know, it's pretty -- pretty lucky if that happened. But, you know, Ben wrote a book. And the book is a tough book, because he talked about he has pathological disease. That's a serious statement, when you say you have pathological disease, because, as I understand it, you can't really cure it. But he said he had pathological disease. I assume the book was written prior to him deciding to run for office. But they had some pretty tough statements in the book.”