Trump says Carson’s ‘pathological temper’ can’t be cured

Trump has been aggressively attacking retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson who has pulled even with him in national opinion polls of Republican primary voters.

Carly Fiorina a rival in the GOP and the former CEO at HP shot back by saying that anyone could turn a million dollar inheritance into money, but you Mr. Trump will never be anywhere near as smart as Dr. Ben Carson.

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”.

And Trump discounted how Carson could have had an epiphany had he truly been as violent as his book described. To be clear, Trump at no point suggested that Carson is a pedophile, but used the condition as an example of a mental disorder that can not be cured.

From there, the real estate mogul played his Trump card, and one that’s sure to reverberate around the political world over the weekend – The Donald kinda sorta compared Carson to… a child molester.

Linda Albright, a Gowrie resident and registered Democrat, said she also enjoyed Trump’s speech but wished he had stayed clear of the attacks. “He said that he’s pathological and he’s got basically pathological disease”. That’s the ultimate cure. “You don’t cure the child molester”.

“You can call us a whole lot of things out here, but stupid isn’t one them”, he said. “There’s no cure for it. Pathological, there’s no cure for that”.

It’s not the first time Trump has shown exasperation with the state in which he was once the heavy front-runner. He stepped away from the podium and acted out how he imagined such an attack would happen, with his own belt buckle flopping around. “Anybody have a knife and want to try it on me?” Believe me, it ain’t gonna work.

“So I have a belt: Somebody hits me with a belt, it’s going in because the belt moves this way”.

“How stupid are the people of Iowa?”

On Thursday night in Iowa, Trump provoked a nasty fight with his co-frontrunner by saying the American people were “stupid” for believing anecdotes in Carson’s autobiography and the story of personal redemption that has so resonated with grass-roots conservatives.

Reporters present described a crowd that was annoyed by an event that started late and dragged on far longer than expected and confused by the candidate’s rambling stories and outlandish claims.

The events on Thursday gave advisers to Carson the opportunity to flip the script on Trump, who only a few days before had been professing concern about their candidate’s mental well-being.

“When he said he hit a friend of his in the face with a lock, with a pad lock, right in the face, I say, ‘Whoa, that’s pretty bad.’ And when he said he stabbed somebody with a knife but it hit a belt buckle – I know all about knives and belt buckles”.