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Ben Carson thinks that there is a place for Ted Cruz in a Donald Trump White House. Carson floats Cruz as attorney general to go after Clinton

Ben Carson has a plan for Ted Cruz now that the Texas senator has dropped out of the GOP presidential race: attorney general, then Supreme Court justice under a Trump administration.

When Fox News Radio’s John Gibson asked Carson on Wednesday whether it would be “smart” for presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump to offer Cruz a position on the Supreme Court, he said yes.

“I think he would be terrific on the Supreme Court, or I think he would be a terrific attorney general. Or he could be both,” Carson said. “He could be attorney general first, you know, go ahead and prosecute Hillary, and then go on the Supreme Court.”

Gibson went on to ask the former presidential candidate whom Trump should choose as his running mate.

“I wouldn’t advise him to pick me,” Carson said. “I would advise him to pick someone who really is willing and able to take a significant part of the load.”

The retired neurosurgeon endorsed Trump in March after he dropped his own presidential bid. Trump said on Wednesday that Carson would serve on his selection committee for his future running mate.

In the interview with Fox News Radio, Carson also said Trump should name someone with plenty of experience on “the world scene” and shouldn’t pick him because of how the “left-wing media” would react.

“I represent everything that they are against, and there would be so much attention on that and I think it would just distract from what needs to be done,” Carson said.

When Gibson asked if he meant “being a black conservative would create this distraction in the media,” Carson answered, “Yeah.” And he said he would want to be an outside adviser to a Trump administration.

The retired neurosurgeon said he thought the race for the Republican nomination “would drag out a little bit longer.”

“But I think perhaps Sen. Cruz, Gov. Kasich have come to recognize that nothing good comes out of continuing strife,” he said. “You know, we have limited time to unite the party and to soothe the wounds that have been created. Because people have got to come to the understanding that Hillary Clinton is far worse than anything that they could imagine coming from any of the Republicans.”

Gibson said he has taken calls from Cruz and Marco Rubio supporters who say they will vote for Clinton now that Trump is the presumptive GOP nominee. Asked what he would say to those callers, Carson said Clinton would nominate two to four justices to the Supreme Court and create an “extraordinary progressive court system” as president.

“And if they like, you know, transgender bathrooms, if they like escalating national debt, if they like weakness on the world stage and allowing our enemies to overwhelm us, absolutely, go ahead and do that, but make sure that’s what you really want,” Carson said.

He spent time in the interview praising Trump, calling him a “very good businessman” and someone who “loves America” and that one would be “hard-pressed to find somebody that has something bad to say about him.”

“He wants America to be strong in lots of different ways,” Carson said. “Now, he’s not, you know, the furthest person on the right wing. There’s no question about that. And he is open to compromise. But I think he also is very interested in being successful. Success means a lot to Donald Trump. And that means he’s going to surround himself with extraordinarily competent people.”

And in addition to his rallying side, Trump “also has a cerebral side that can sit down with other intelligent people and, you know, hash out a problem and look at alternatives and look at them rationally and what makes sense,” Carson said.

When Gibson asked about Trump’s past donations to Democrats, Carson had an explanation.

“What he was doing was being a businessman, and you know businessmen — they grease the palms of everybody, particularly when you’re dealing business at that level,” Carson said. “And if you try to do it with just one party, you’re going to have a tough time.”