{"id":18003,"date":"2016-11-16T19:43:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T19:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18003"},"modified":"2016-11-16T19:43:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T19:43:49","slug":"carson-opts-out-of-cabinet-post-but-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18003","title":{"rendered":"Carson opts out of Cabinet post &#8230; but why?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/th.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18004\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/th-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"th\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ben Carson has decided he doesn&#8217;t want to be considered for a spot in Donald J. Trump&#8217;s Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>His reason, as stated by a close associate, is quite stunning.<\/p>\n<p>Carson, remember, ran for the Republican presidential nomination against Trump and 15 others. He dropped out about midway through the process.<\/p>\n<p>He was considered a possible candidate for secretary of health and human services or education.<\/p>\n<p>Carson doesn&#8217;t want it, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/republican-ben-carson-opts-against-job-in-trump-cabinet\/ar-AAkkeuE\">http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/republican-ben-carson-opts-against-job-in-trump-cabinet\/ar-AAkkeuE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then came this: &#8220;Carson&#8217;s business manager, Armstrong Williams, said Carson has made clear he has no experience in running a federal bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Dr. Carson doesn&#8217;t feel like that&#8217;s the best way for him to serve the president-elect,&#8217; Williams told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He said Carson would remain a close adviser of Trump and a friend. &#8216;His life has not prepared him to be a Cabinet secretary,&#8217; Williams said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But it prepared him to become <em>president of the United States of America?<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ben Carson has decided he doesn&#8217;t want to be considered for a spot in Donald J. Trump&#8217;s Cabinet. His reason, as stated by a close associate, is quite stunning. Carson, remember, ran for the Republican presidential nomination against Trump and 15 others. He dropped out about midway through the process. He was considered a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18003\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carson opts out of Cabinet post &#8230; but why?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,1424],"class_list":["post-18003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-ben-carson","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18005,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003\/revisions\/18005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}