He made the endorsement at a joint news conference in Florida
with Mr Trump, ahead of primaries there on Tuesday.
The winner of the Republican nomination will face Hillary
Clinton or Bernie Sanders for the Democrats, in November.
Mr Carson is the second former candidate to endorse Mr Trump
after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
A retired neurosurgeon, Mr Carson was an early favourite but
dropped out last week after failing to gain significant popular support.
Mr Carson said Mr Trump had a "cerebral" side.
"I have found in talking with him, that there's a lot
more alignment, philosophically and spiritually, than I ever thought that there
was," Mr Carson said of his former rival.
"Donald Trump talks a lot about making America great.
It's not just talk, he means it."
Asked about insults that the two candidates had thrown at
each other in the early stages of the campaign, Mr Carson said they had
"buried the hatchet".
"That was political stuff," he said. "That happens
in American politics."
Meanwhile Mr Trump explained why he had targeted his
competitor.
"The one person who just kept sneaking up on me, I could
not lose him, is Dr Ben Carson," Mr Trump said. "I fought back, and I
hit him hard, which is politics, and he understands that."
Full Endorsement
Statement by Carson
Our country is at a crossroads and in the midst of a moral
crisis. We must be careful not to continue our current path, which is littered
with uncertainty at best and ruination at worst. We can make changes to our system
and that change starts now with, “We the People.”
We can have disagreements, but it is critical that we not
allow those disagreements to divide us as a party or as a country.
It is with that in mind that I endorse Donald Trump for
President. I have known Donald for many years. He is a successful businessman
who has built a recognizable global brand that no one can question. His
experience as a businessman is exactly what we need to move our economic engine
in the right direction and empower those who have been left out of the American
dream for far too long.
With our support, I am sure that we can help restore
America's values and faith.
I know there will be some who want to underscore our
differences and others will wish to return to statements he has made about me
in the past, but that is politics. As a man of faith, all is forgiven and we
have moved beyond the past, as the future is now.
Join me in supporting and rallying around the only candidate
the GOP has that can defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016 and return America to that
shining city on a hill.
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