But something happened in Iowa at a Trump rally in Iowa on Thursday night. “That is what the American people are concerned about”, Carson said.
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And just in case he had not offended quite enough people for the evening, he added, “How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?”
Carson’s spokesperson was reacting to earlier controversial statements made by Trump against his closest rival in the Republican presidential race. I said that if you’re a child molester, a sick puppy, you’re a child molester, there’s no cure for that. “Now he said he was pathological, ok”, the billionaire businessman said to the crowd.
Trump even re-enacted Carson’s claim that he attempted to stab a friend during his adolescence and blasted Carson’s claims and character as “pathological”. “Now if you’re pathological there’s no cure for that folks”, he said.
“And he goes into the bathroom for a couple of hours and now he’s religious”. “How stupid are the people of Iowa?” And the knife broke.
“It’s not the kind of dialogue that I would ever engage in”, Carson said of Trump’s comments Friday morning at a press conference.
Thus, Trump sees Carson in the predicament of being either a serial fabulist – and Trump has enjoyed playing up this possibility, too – or the violent menace that Trump wants to paint him as. A Reuters/Ipsos poll this month found 31 percent of Republicans favored Trump. How was that meeting with Putin? Or Wharton? Or your self-funded campaign?
Carly Fiorina a rival in the GOP and the former CEO at HP shot back by saying that anyone could turn a million dollar inheritance into money, but you Mr. Trump will never be anywhere near as smart as Dr. Ben Carson.
“Give me a break”, Trump said in his Thursday speech, where he also lashed out at other Republican candidates and Democrat Hillary Clinton.
“Dr. Carson found redemption in the Lord”.
“I think he melted down last night”, Graham told Fox News.
It’s a comment that has rubbed a few Iowans the wrong way. “I’m really good at war”, he said.
On Friday afternoon, Trump launched a multipronged response on Twitter.
“Time-and-time again, the Republican candidates in this field have refused to stand up to Trump and his repulsive policy ideas, and instead have chosen to imitate his antics”, DNC spokesman Eric Walker said Friday. “He has no clue what he’s talking about”, he said.
The fallout from Trump’s nasty broadside reverberated in Orlando where Trump and Carson, the two front-runners, were among a host of candidates speaking at the Florida Republican Party’s Sunshine Summit. He then jumped the shark, comparing him to a “child molester”. The Donald attacked Carson’s story about his knife attack when he was 14 years old.
“Carson’s an enigma to me”, said Trump, zeroing in on Carson’s description of his own temper as a teenager. “It’s another example of the sad state of affairs for the GOP, and a risky prospect for the nation if Trump or his followers are given the keys to the White House”.
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But by Thursday, showing signs of weariness and growing frustration after a long day on the campaign trail, the gloves came off.
