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Watch: Carson’s Devastating 14-Second Response To Trump’s ‘Child Molester’ Tirade
Top-tier Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson seems unfazed by the relentless assault on his character by fellow GOP candidate, Donald Trump.
Trump spent a lot of his time at a rally at Iowa Central Community College on Nov. 12 berating Carson’s past, which is documented in his 1990 autobiography Gifted Hands. Carson said in his autobiography that he had a “pathological temper” and even attempted to stab a friend once. He also wrote that his religious conversion changed him forever.
The billionaire businessman also released a new video ad that questions Carson’s past, including his story of the stabbing attempt and his religious conversion.
“Violent criminal? Or pathological liar?” the video posed. “We don’t need either as president.”
Trump also said that a “pathological temper” can’t be cured and equated it to a child molester, which he said also can’t be changed.
“It’s in the book that he’s got a pathological temper,” Trump said in one interview. “That’s a big problem because you don’t cure that…as an example: child molesting. You don’t cure these people. You don’t cure a child molester. There’s no cure for it. Pathological, there’s no cure for that.”
The retired neurosurgeon responded in a calm, collected way when veteran newswoman Katie Couric asked him for his reaction to Trump’s statements relating a pathological temper to child molestation.
“I guess someone needs to tell him what pathological actually means because it doesn’t mean that it can’t be cured, so perhaps some of his advisers can actually go talk to some people and understand what that term means and educate him and then he wouldn’t say things like that,” Carson said.
In another interview, Carson said this was no more than “the politics of personal destruction.”
“I’m hopeful at some 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 while on a campaign stomp in South Carolina.
Carson, who Trump said early in the race that he wouldn’t attack because he was “a nice guy,” wasn’t the only candidate in the businessman’s cross-hairs. He also took at hit at Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, saying he was “weak like a baby” and saying that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush should get no attention because his campaign isn’t doing well.
Carson began rising in Iowa polling in October, surpassing Trump by 9 percentage points in the Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll. Carson is also leading the polls in several other primary states including Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina and South Carolina. Polls also show he could win against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in a general election in Minnesota and North Carolina polls.
Rubio is also rising in the polls with at least two polls in Minnesota and North Carolina showing him as winning the general election against Clinton in a head-to-head match up.
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-carsons-devastating-14-second-response-to-trumps-child-molester-tirade/
