Earlier on Thursday, in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, Trump likened Carson’s self-admitted “pathological” temper during his childhood to that of a child molester.
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It didn’t always used to be like this, though.
Footnote: Carson’s reported response about Trump was “Pray for him”. “Because people are sick and exhausted of watching what’s going on – they are sick and exhausted with her and her whole big attitude”, he said.
“I can not hit him”.
“I would bomb the sh*t out of them”, he said.
Trump then openly wondered why Carson was doing so well with everything he has admitted to in his life.
SC Sen. Lindsey Graham said Friday that he thinks Trump experienced a meltdown and that the speech marked a turning point for his campaign.
It remains to be seen, however, whether Trump’s surge will hold in the wake of his comments at the Fort Dodge rally.
“If you’re pathological there’s no cure for that folks”. Honestly, outside of the woman card, she’s got nothing going, believe me.
At the second GOP debate, everything seemed to have been smoothed over. The two even shared a high-five onstage. “A child molester, there’s no cure for that”, Trump said.
But things quickly took a turn for the worse. On October 24 Trump expressed skepticism about Carson’s faith (Carson is a Seventh Day Adventist) contrasting it with his own “middle of the road” Presbyterian beliefs.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump didn’t let up his blistering critique of rival Ben Carson, issuing a new online video ad that calls him a “violent criminal” or “pathological liar”.
Trump flipped his belt buckle up and down, ridiculing Carson’s claim in his 1990 autobiography “Gifted Hands” that the boy’s belt buckle prevented the knife from entering his body.
He added: “He hit the belt buckle?” “Give me a break, give me a break, give me a break, the knife broke”.
After questioning the story of the retired neurosurgeon of how he came close to stabbing a friend while an adolescent, Trump said how stupid are they to believe that line in Iowa? He has written that on one occasion he almost punched his mother and on another he attempted to stab a friend with a knife. Want to try it on me? I didn’t say it, he did. Trump made fun of Carson mocking the story and closing with, “give me a break”.
Then again, for as much as Trump has soared on celebrity, manufactured conflict, and the most frivolous aspects of American politics, he also speaks to real anxieties in the Republican Party.
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“He’d better go back to the marketing department on that one”, Bush said.
