Mike Huckabee just wants to clarify that he's 'never stabbed anybody'

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee
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Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee made a bold statement Monday to Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC's Morning Joe: "I will go on record today and tell you this, Mika: I never hit my mother with a hammer and I never stabbed anybody," Huckabee said. "Never wrote about it either."

It was an obvious dig at one of his primary opponents, Ben Carson. On Thursday, CNN questioned the validity of the retired neurosurgeon's tales of sporadic violence in his youth, including one anecdote about stabbing a friend and another about hitting his mother with a hammer. That led to increased media scrutiny of Carson's background, which, predictably, he did not appreciate.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.