McArthur|Trump Compares Carson to a Child Molester

Republican presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)M.D.

Citing excerpts of Mr. Carson’s autobiography, Mr. Trump riffed on the pediatric neurosurgeon’s faith, his credibility and his temper, describing that last as a pathology akin to that suffered by child molesters.

It didn’t always used to be like this, though. But Trump would be better off telling people why they should vote for him, rather than why they shouldn’t vote for Carson or anyone else. “Give me a break”, Trump said about Carson’s claim in his book that he tried to stab a friend with a knife when he was younger but the friend’s belt buckle saved him.

“I’d bomb the s– out of them”, he said. He used Carson’s own words, from his book “Gifted Hands” against him.

“That’s a big problem because you don’t cure that…as an example: child molesting”.

With his voice growing louder and louder, Trump questioned what sort of person would attack his mother. You don’t cure these people.

“I love Iowa. I’ve been here so many times now, I think I’m going to buy a farm and maybe just move here”.

At the second GOP debate, everything seemed to have been smoothed over.

But things quickly took a turn for the worse.

In response on Friday, Carson recommended praying for Trump.

Political pundits say a rambling Thursday night speech could mark the beginning of the end for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. “I hope he will have the same grace”. But setting Trump’s psychological assessment aside, there is no question that Carson’s campaign has taken a few major hits in recent weeks, as journalists and opposition researchers have found numerous untruths and inconsistencies in his storied biography, not to mention odd theories about the Egyptian pyramids. But low and behold it hit the belt, it hit the belt, and the knife broke. Trump demanded, “How stupid are the people of Iowa?”

“What I want to do is create ladders of opportunity that allow people to climb up from a state of dependency and become part of the successful fabric of the country”.

“It’s not the kind of dialogue I would ever engage in”, he said. The real estate mogul told his Iowa audience Carson has a “pathological temper” and “pathological disease” that couldn’t be cured.

Trump’s supporters said, though, they like his tough mannerisms. The idea is that a significant number of Republican voters favor an outsider candidate and are at this moment trying to decide between Trump and Carson, and constant replays of Trump’s attack might nudge them toward Carson.