Trump hammers away at Carson

Trump went nuclear on the soft-spoken Carson during a 95-minute speech in Iowa on Thursday night, where the real-estate mogul found a way to inject child molestation into the campaign.

“Weak on illegal immigration”.

The only thing predictable about Trump has been his unconventional – a few would say freakish – approach to running for president.

Traditional politicians, he said, are “stupid”. And we better watch him…

Mr Carson says the incident helped turn him to the Christian faith.

He also talked about more contemporary military challenges, notably how he would deal with the Islamic State.

“I would bomb the s-t out of them… get Exxon to come in there and in two months… they’ll rebuild that sucker brand new”. I just don’t think it’s very productive or interesting. And that’s right: I’d blow up the pipes, I’d blow up the refineries.

But just as the political world was beginning to wonder whether Trump was done with the theatrics, Trump delivered his most sensational speech yet. Those standing behind him eventually gave up and sat on the floor.

Carson today said he would not engage in the “politics of personal destruction” by directly responding to Trump.

Both donors and party leaders fear the nomination of either candidate will ensure a Hillary Clinton presidency and increase the chances of the Democrats becoming a majority in the Senate. But challenging Carson, who remains the most trusted and admired candidate in the GOP field, on those terms is a gambit that will nearly certainly backfire. “Anybody have a knife want to try it on me?” I’m not saying it!

“He actually said pathological temper and then he defined it as disease”. If you’re pathological, there’s no cure for that, folks.

Next, he referenced an interview that he did on CNN earlier that day.

A child molester – how’s that for breaking Reagan’s Commandment?

“If you cross the United States border illegally, you get a job, you get a driver’s license… you get food stamps, you get a place to live, you get health care, housing, child benefits and in many cases education. Pathological? There’s no cure for that”.

Trump mocked Carson’s anecdote about his attempt to stab another boy, which was thwarted by the victim’s belt buckle. He also railed against the people of Iowa as naive and gullible for believing Carson’s stories.

Graham said he believes Trump had a meltdown.

Trump’s discounted Carson’s transformation, “He goes into the bathroom for a couple of hours, and he comes out, and now he’s religious”. “But another barnyard epithet drew blank stares from the people onstage behind him: “[John] Kasich, oh, the guy’s (expletive) bad”.

That being said, if anyone can prevail against a medical professional in such a scenario, it would be Trump.

It wasn’t exactly the kind of response that would make Trump back down. There’s no evidence Carson still carries hostility in his system, and he wouldn’t have become a successful and celebrated neurosurgeon had he the tendencies that Trump pointed out. To paraphrase former Vice President Dick Cheney’s remarks to radio titan Hugh Hewitt about President Obama’s foreign policy: “If you had a GOP presidential candidate who wanted to take the Republican Party down, it would look exactly like what Donald Trump is doing”.