{"id":160573,"date":"2021-02-22T09:02:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T14:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=160573"},"modified":"2021-02-22T14:28:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T19:28:48","slug":"ben-carson-the-swamp-is-much-deeper-and-wider-than-i-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-carson-the-swamp-is-much-deeper-and-wider-than-i-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Carson: The swamp is much deeper and wider than I expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fben-carson-the-swamp-is-much-deeper-and-wider-than-i-expected%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=160573&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2375928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2375928\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2375928 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ben-777x437.jpg\" alt=\"File - Ben Carson, former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is pictured. ( Evan Vucci\/ AP Photo)\" width=\"777\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2375928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File \u2013 Ben Carson, former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is pictured. ( Evan Vucci\/ AP Photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 11:24 AM PT \u2013 Monday, February 22, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Ben Carson recently stated \u201cthe swamp is much deeper and wider\u201d than he expected, following his tenure as Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary during the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview Sunday, Carson said our bureaucratic system is rife with people who care more about the advantages they get from their positions than actually helping people.<\/p>\n<p>Carson suggested much of the political opposition from both sides of the aisle to the 45th president during his time in office was due to his work to disturb the swamp.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As one of the few Trump cabinet members to last all 4 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealBenCarson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RealBenCarson<\/a> tells me what he learned about DC: &#8220;The swamp is much deeper and wider than I expected&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nW1I7qhJUq\">pic.twitter.com\/nW1I7qhJUq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glennbeck\/status\/1363657256873713667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Carson also called out the mainstream media for seeking to divide Americans.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/iran-refutes-biden-admin-s-claims-of-direct-talks-on-release-of-hostages\/\">Iran refutes Biden admin.\u2019s claims of direct talks on release of hostages<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2273950,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ben-777x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Ben Carson: The swamp is much deeper and wider than I expected","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ben-777x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Ben Carson: The swamp is much deeper and wider than I expected","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}