Trump says Carson’s “pathological temper” can’t be cured

And it comes as the Republican establishment has been growing increasingly alarmed at his staying power. Just when you think Trump has said something entirely delusional, or outright insane, you realize that NY real-estate prices are crazier still. Trump said Thursday of voters who believe Carson’s story of religious awakening.

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.

“It’s Donald. And he’s an entertaining speaker. And we’re going to put someone in office who considers himself to have pathological disease?”

As they left, one woman said of the evening, and specifically the Carson comments: “I’m still processing it”. During an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, Trump renewed his attack on Dr. Ben Carson, who has been closing in on the real estate mogul’s lead in polls over the course of recent weeks.

Trump’s assault continued Friday with a campaign ad posted on Instagram, featuring a video clip of Carson talking about how, as a young man with anger issues, he had attempted to stab his mother.

“Give me a break”, Trump said.

Pointing back to his work on the Senate’s bipartisan immigration reform bill, Trump said Rubio was in favor of “amnesty” for undocumented immigrants because he is of Hispanic heritage.

At first, the audience was quick to laugh at Trump’s sharp insults and applaud his calls to better care for veterans, replace the Affordable Care Act and construct a wall along the Mexican border. His riff on now-frontrunner Ben Carson, his violent past and how it is a “pathological disease” like child molestation was a new low for a candidate incapable of not crossing a line. He also railed against the people of Iowa as naive and gullible for believing Carson’s stories.

“How stupid are the people of Iowa?” declared Trump during a rally at Iowa Central Community College.

He added, “How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?”

Trump had appeared exhausted Thursday and arrived unusually late for the event in Iowa – his fourth state in as many days.

A CNN/ORC poll released last week showed Trump with the support of 25% of Iowans and Carson with 23%. “Or pathological liar? We don’t need either as president”.

“I’m hopeful at a few 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 SC. Marco Rubio to ISIS to Iowa voters themselves. “That’s what the people of America are concerned about, not so much politics as usual, politics of personal destruction – that’s what the American people are sick and exhausted of”.

“I would bomb the s– out of them”, Trump said of the terrorist group.