What Ben Carson has really been doing:

Per the campaign’s FEC filing:

In the final three months of 2015, the Carson campaign paid:

• $4,769,922.68 to Eleventy Marketing Group. Eleventy Marketing Group’s president is Ken Dawson, who is also Carson’s chief marketing officer.
• $2,871,229.50 to TMA Direct. TMA’s president and CEO is Mike Murray, who is also Carson’s senior advisor for grassroots marketing.
• $1,256,436.09 to Communication Manager Source, which is run by Joanne Parker, wife of Dean Parker (Carson’s chief fundraiser – Politicalprof).
• $138,666.06 to Vita Capital. Vita Capital’s CEO is Dean Parker.

That’s over $9 million siphoned directly to companies owned by Carson staffers, out of a total of $27 million spent by the campaign in that time. A great deal of the campaign’s expenditures went to marketing, which completes the cycle by bringing even more money into the Carson campaign.

Ben Carson is not, and has never been, a serious candidate for president.

I don’t mean that he’s not a candidate who should be taken seriously (though he isn’t). I mean that he has never been serious about actually becoming president. His entire campaign is one long con, and the people he’s conning are too stupid to know it.