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, brushing aside any recent claims of civility, has equated Carson’s childhood “pathological temper” to the illness of a child molester, questioned his religious awakening and berated voters who support the retired neurosurgeon.
“How stupid are the people of Iowa?” declared Trump during a rally at Iowa Central Community College Thursday night. “How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?” For more than an hour and a half, the billionaire real estate mogul harshly criticized not only Carson, but many of his other competitors in the race for the GOP presidential nomination.
The new video continues to question Carson’s account of trying to stab a friend when he was young.
“Violent criminal? Or pathological liar?” it asks. “We don’t need either as president.”
Carson said Trump’s broadside is “expected” in politics, but he decried “the politics of personal destruction.”
“I’m hopeful at some point that we reach a level of maturity that we can actually deal with the issues that are facing us right now and stop getting into the mud and doing things that really don’t matter,” Carson told reporters in South Carolina.
Trump, once the undisputed poll leader, is now running neck-and-neck with Carson in many opinion surveys.
Trump previewed his line of attack in an interview with CNN Thursday in which the businessman pointed to Carson’s own descriptions of his “pathological temper” as a young man.
“That’s a big problem because you don’t cure that,” Trump said. “That’s like, you know, I could say, they say you don’t cure — as an example, child molester. You don’t cure these people. You don’t cure the child molester.” Trump also said that “pathological is a very serious disease.”
In his book “Gifted Hands,” Carson described the uncontrollable anger he felt at times while growing up in inner-city Detroit. He wrote that on one occasion he nearly punched his mother and on another he attempted to stab a friend with a knife.
“I had what I only can label a pathological temper — a disease — and this sickness controlled me, making me totally irrational,” Carson said, in describing the incident with his mother. He referred to “pathological anger” again in telling about lunging at his friend, a knife blade breaking off when it hit the boy’s belt buckle.
During the rally Thursday night in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Trump said that Carson is “an enigma to me.”
He went on to repeat the molestation analogy with his comments about pathological temper, and he questioned aspects of Carson’s biography. At one point, Trump acted out the scene of Carson trying to stab his friend, lurching forward dramatically. “He lunged that knife into the stomach of his friend, but, lo and behold, it hit the belt!” Trump declared.
“Give me a break.”
In “Gifted Hands,” Carson describes racing to the bathroom in his house after the near-stabbing incident — and in time beginning to pray for God’s help in dealing with his temper.
“During those hours alone in the bathroom, something happened to me,” he wrote. “God heard my deep cries of anguish. A feeling of lightness flowed over me, and I knew a change of heart had taken place. I felt different. I was different.”
In questioning Carson’s religious awakening, Trump said in Fort Dodge that Carson went into the bathroom and came out, “and now he’s religious.”
“And the people of Iowa believe him. Give me a break. Give me a break. It doesn’t happen that way,” Trump said. “Don’t be fools.”
The Associated Press contributed to this article
Donald Trump should pray that he will live to see the day that he is half the man that Ben Carson is. Ben Carson is a very principled, intelligent , ethical and reverent man than Trump will ever hope to be. Trump is allowing his “jack-ass mouth” to pass checks he cannot cover. I have yet to see in my 76 years, a loud mouth that is so full of BS that he allows his pride to blot out any thing he has gained. He is trying to buy his way to the Presidency, spending his own money because “WHO WANTS TO BACK A LOSER”.
Trump is a leader that is willing to tackle the problem in our nations. Problems that politicians In both major party would not even mention. He has give a voice to me and millions of citizen. As for Carson and his religious claims. Christian is not manifested by wearing a sign or voicing statements. It is a life style of disciples of Christ. The scriptures tell us when that life begins.
Romans 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. ” Not a trip to the bathroom”
Ben Carson is twice the man Donald Trump will ever be. He is intelligent enough to find the right military minds to help him run his presidency. Trump thinks he knows already.
Carson has his quirks.However, Carson isn’t the issue. He is accomplished and a success story. A Trump -Carson ticket would be a winner.
…wow, are you drinking the koolaid by the gallon
Someone said that truump is exhiiting the signs of early onset altzimers, the same disease that killed his father, and Ronald Regan…do we really want another senile man in the White House, while his wife consulted an astrologer to make decisions for the country like Nancy did in the last years of the Regan presidency….NO, no, a thousand times NO!
Carson, on the other hand, seems to be either under hypnosis, a spell, narcolepsy, or perhaps his meds need adjusting…his answers when one really looks at them, do not make sense, they are measured looooong words articulated in a string that make people who don’t understand them think he is so smart; but those of us who really understand the english language, its nuances and meanings hear him making nonsensical remarks…just like kevin mc carthy in the house…what an idiot that guy is…
Many of these guys in the guppie teabag partu are not smart, they talk fast and lose while not making sense, and what they want is to tear the government apart, start more wars and beat up on women.
Someone said that truump is exhiiting the signs of early onset altzimers, the same disease that killed his father, and Ronald Regan…do we really want another senile man in the White House, while his wife consulted an astrologer to make decisions for the country like Nancy did in the last years of the Regan presidency….NO, no, a thousand times NO!
Carson, on the other hand, seems to be either under hypnosis, a spell, narcolepsy, or perhaps his meds need adjusting…his answers when one really looks at them, do not make sense, they are measured looooong words articulated in a string that make people who don’t understand them think he is so smart; but those of us who really understand the english language, its nuances and meanings hear him making nonsensical remarks…just like kevin mc carthy in the house…what an idiot that guy is…
Many of these guys in the guppie teabag partu are not smart, they talk fast and lose while not making sense, and what they want is to tear the government apart, start more wars and beat up on women.
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