from the daily beast via political-wire.com

GOP Lawmaker Blames ‘Deep State’ for Carson’s Spending

after the emails came out and carson himself threw his wife under the bus, this is some special kind of mental gymnastics from Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) :

“Somebody in the Deep State, it was not one of his people apparently, ordered a table, like a conference room table or whatever it was for a room. And that’s what the cost was. Ben Carson tried to—he said ‘you know how hard it is to turn it back because of the way that the procurement happens?’”