Trump asserted that Carson has a “pathological disease” and stated “If you’re pathological, there’s no cure for that”.
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Ben Carson occasionally disagrees with Trump – most recently over the deportation of 11 or 12 million illegal immigrants – and he certainly stands in the tycoon’s way. The doctor blamed his actions on a “pathological temper” and said discovering religion helped him overcome the issue and forge a successful career.
Mr Carson has said his intended stabbing victim’s belt buckle blocked his knife, a detail Mr Trump singled out in his rant. Trump questioned whether or not this was even possible, and even stepped around the podium to mockingly ask if anyone in the audience had a knife, and would like to give his own belt buckle a try.
Carson, the seventh presidential candidate to address the Republican Party of Florida’s Sunshine Summit today, offered a low-key contrast to the other candidate atop the GOP polls, billionaire Donald Trump, who spoke about an hour before.
“He just went off the rails”.
“I would bomb the shit out of them”, he said to robust applause. Part of Trump’s attack was saying there’s “no cure” for being a child molester.
In response on Friday, Carson recommended praying for Trump.
“I know more about ISIS than the generals do”, Trump boasted, as he crudely summarized his plan to deal with the Islamic State extremist group and take the oil it uses to finance its operations.
“I don’t want a person that’s got pathological disease”, Trump told the crowd of 1,5000 at Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge. The comments have since gone viral, generating everything from condemnation of Trump to ridicule of the press’s rampant misinterpretation of what Trump actually said. But Trump would be better off telling people why they should vote for him, rather than why they shouldn’t vote for Carson or anyone else.
“Carson’s an enigma. He wrote a book and he’s doing great in Iowa. How stupid are people to believe this crap?”
Something about Carson has gotten under Trump’s skin.
Spencer Platt /Getty ImagesReal-estate mogul Donald Trump went on a Twitter tear on Friday after a Republican presidential rival, Carly Fiorina, taunted him on Facebook the day before. “I think this was the turning point, the SC senator who’s also running for president said on Fox News America’s Newsroom”.
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Carson’s relentless calm over the many months of the campaign, his refusal to rise to the bait when attacked, seems to be what set Trump off. On Thursday Trump mocked Carson’s popular religious conversion story.
