Bill Kristol on Carson’s Response to Trump Slurs: ‘Pretty Smart’

He then devoted more than 10 minutes angrily attacking his chief rival, Ben Carson, saying the retired doctor has a “pathological disease” with no cure, similar to being a child molester.

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson shrugged off an angry rant from rival Donald Trump after the bombastic billionaire tested the patience of the party’s base by saying Carson had pathological tendencies similar to a child molester.

“There are churches full of people in the Hispanic and African-American community that believes just like you do”, he told the crowd.

Using very harsh language, Trump focused most of his criticism on Carson, the current leader in the polls while taking a number of shots at several other candidates.

Trump asserted the supposed tabbing incident showed Carson has a “pathological” temper. “We don’t need either as president”, the ad concludes.

“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.

Talking about Marco Rubio’s position on immigration, Trump described the Florida senator as “weak, like a baby, like a baby” and “not a good poker player because every time he’s under pressure he starts to profusely sweat”. Or will Trump give up, frustrated by the challenge of the presidential trail and the inexplicable (to him) popularity of a man with a sometimes unbelievable biography?

After a week in which he hosted Saturday Night Live and stood center-stage at a Republican debate, Donald Trump is surging among Republicans likely to cast votes in the party’s presidential primary. “It doesn’t happen that way”, Mr Trump told the rally. He has written that on one occasion he almost punched his mother and on another he attempted to stab a friend with a knife.

But Dick Graves, a Trump supporter who attended the rally, said that while the candidate’s comments were perhaps “a little rash”, he wasn’t offended.

“In that sense, Carson’s aides believe Carson himself doesn’t have to react because the media will do his work for him”.

Trump, in retelling the story, said that Carson had plunged the knife “into the belt and, amazing, the belt stayed totally flat and the knife broke”. He likened it to a pathological disease that couldn’t be changed.

“But if you’re a child molester there’s no cure, they can’t stop you”. Just four percent say they would support Bush in the latest poll. “How stupid are the people of Iowa? That’s what’s been going on in our country for years that’s dragging us in the mud”, Carson said in SC.

But it’s hard to think they’ll feel the same about Trump’s tirade against Carson.

“Give me a break”, Trump said in his Thursday speech, where he also lashed out at other Republican candidates and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.