CARSON ANSWERS TRUMP HIT Calls personal attacks ‘politics of destruction,’ won

It ends with a plug for the Trump campaign. The problem is that his chief rival for the Republican nomination is working the same angle.

Carson has emerged as the main challenger to Trump’s top position in national polls and popularity in early deciding states.

Trump, by contrast, is a serial violator of this famous rule, never more so than in a 95-minute tirade Thursday in Fort Dodge, Iowa, where he asked, “How stupid are the people of Iowa?” to believe Iowa front-runner Ben Carson’s reminiscences of his violent youth.

It seems that the closer Carson and Trump have come in the polls, the less friendly they have been to each other.

It’s plainly caught the billionaire wrong-footed, and he’s still trying to find his balance. But many in the crowd were visibly and audibly less enthused when Trump veered off into alien cultural references and narcissism, such as this ode to one of his side-businesses: “See these cufflinks?”

As Trump’s rant continued, campaign workers with microphones who were supposed to take questions from the audience instead took a seat, cheering on their boss here and there. Trump said the cordial relationship with Carson had led him to refrain from launching attacks on the campaign trail.

“I hope, frankly, it comes out great for him”, Trump said. Carson also accused the media of misinterpreting a few of Trumpm’s comments.

Between Tuesday’s debate and Thursday, though, something changed, and Trump the killer reemerged.

Donald Trump has rattled the GOP presidential race by ridiculing chief rival Ben Carson’s recollections of his childhood and scolding voters for believing “that crap”.

During an interview with CNN, he repeated his accusation that Carson had a “pathological” temper, quoting directly from Carson’s book, adding that it equates to the sickness of a child molester. “You’re going to be successful, but he took the knife and went like this and he plunged it into the belt and, amazing, the belt stayed totally flat and the knife broke”. Pathologies, he said, were incurable. Now he wrote this, I guess, before he was running for office … and I don’t want a person whose got pathological disease. “That’s like, you know, I could say, they say you don’t cure – as an example, child molester. There’s only one cure and we don’t want to talk about that cure”. That’s the ultimate cure.

Trump previewed his attack line in an interview with CNN Thursday in which the businessman pointed to Carson’s own descriptions of his “pathological temper” as a young man. There’s no cure for it. ‘Pathological, ‘ there’s no cure for that.

“The Donald” also called the people of Iowa “stupid” for supporting Dr. Carson. “How stupid are the people of the country?”

Shelby County Republican Chairman Larry Madson, who saw a clip on the news Friday morning, said he thought Trump’s insults “will wear thin with the Iowa voters”.