Posted on 11/13/2015 8:06:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
U.S. presidential candidate Ben Carson recommended praying for rival Donald Trump after the real-estate mogul and television personality, in a 95-minute rant in Iowa, likened him to a child molester, Carson's business manager said on Friday.
"When I spoke with Dr. Carson about this yesterday how we should respond, you know he was so sad about it. He said: "Pray for him." He feels sorry for him because he really likes Mr. Trump," Armstrong Williams, who often acts as Carson's surrogate in the media, told CNN.
"To see him just imploding before our very eyes - it's just sad to watch," Williams said.
Speaking in Iowa on Thursday evening, Trump, a leading contender for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election, cast doubt on Carson's oft-reported story of lunging at someone with a hunting knife as a child, an episode Carson says led him to his Christian faith.
A retired neurosurgeon, Carson has emerged as the main challenger to Trump's top position in national polls and popularity in early deciding states. A Reuters/Ipsos poll this month found 31 percent of Republicans favored Trump. Carson followed at 18 percent.
"Give me a break," Trump said in his Thursday speech, where he also lashed out at other Republican candidates and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. "How stupid are the people of Iowa? How stupid are the people of the country to believe that crap?"
He said the incident showed Carson had a "pathological" temper.
"If you're pathological, there's no cure for that," Trump said. "If you're a child molester, there's no cure. They can't stop you."
Carson has said his intended stabbing victim's belt buckle blocked his knife, a detail Trump singled out in his rant.
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Carson claims he has always been pro life, even when he was referring women to abortionists.
Enough with your vile spread of lies, deceit, and disinformation. I could never support Trump after reading the nastiness of his supporters and his disgusting display last night against Carson. If anyone is on meds it would be Trump for bipolar disorder. He was absolutely manic last night. Guess we now know whe he doesn’t do coffee and alcohol.
See how that works? See how nasty and evil it is? You should be ashamed of yourself.
Carson talks as he does due to a speech impediment. He speaks slowly and concentrates so as to not stutter.
So...you wouldn’t like to see Carson deck Trump right in the kidney?
Absolutely not. Trump isn’t worth decking.
Oh, c’mon now, don’t be so mean-spirited.
Facts stretched to suit your opinion are not facts, just your wishful thinking.
“Facts stretched to suit your opinion are not facts, just your wishful thinking.”
For you people to justify even his inference toward Carson about child molestation defies logic. We in FR at one time called that “character assassination.” Now it’s “Yeah baby! Trump keeps it real!”
Well, keep in cheering. It speaks volumes.
Yes, Carson does seem like a good person, he has made a number of good points, and his reply was clever. But he is for amnesty, and that is bad for this country.
I heard his statement and, unless there is a second one, he did not compare Carson to a pedophile.
Romeny was no fighter, or he didn’t feel becoming president was worth fighting for. And we saw how that ended.
You would actually pick somebody who is pro amnesty and pro immigration from enemy countries over somebody you don’t personally like but who at least stands up to this country? I am sure you are bright enough to understand why amnesty and accepting Syrian refugees would do to this country. The illegal have already done a great deal of damage to the USA.
I hear you and just read on Drudge that Obama plans to “increase and accelerate the admission of Syrian refugees to the US. Prayers to France and maybe they will soon wake up to the FACT that Muslims are EVIL and carriers of EVIL.
This is when Trump should trumpet!!! He should be concentrating on skewering Obama & Clinton instead of screwing up his own damn campaign by bullying and picking scabs with our other candidates when it isn’t necessary!
All I can say is that Trump better dang well send them all back to Syria. If its only a halfway ticket fine by me. :-)
You are witnessing what happens with open borders in Paris right now, and the people there are not armed...another big issue that Trump is supporting is our Second Amendment rights, and how many on that stage is for doing away with the second amendment?
He is trying his hardest to get people to wake up, and if people don't then what they get is their fault, just like with wimp in chief, how many people voted for him twice and look where that has gotten us...
Trump is the MAN that can beat Hillary, and he's the MAN that can Make This Country Better than ever before...
Tonight should prove this...but he has to get the nomination right now and he's showing us what these candidates are made of...listen and watch him, he knows how this is done...
You must be a defense attorney. From Breitbart:
"Trump compared Carsons pathology to that of a child molester":
Thats a big problem because you dont cure that. Thats like, you know, I could say, they say you dont cure as an example, child molester. You dont cure these people. You dont cure the child molester.
"In his biography, Carson has written about finding God after one of his violent outbursts, and doing so while sitting alone for hours in a bathroom" (over 40 years ago).
Trump wasnt buying it, and appeared to attack as fools and stupid voters who have, specifically Iowa voters: He goes into a bathroom, comes out and now hes religious. And the people of Iowa believe him. Give me a break. Give me a break. It doesnt happen that way. Dont be fools.
"How stupid are the people of Iowa? How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?"
Do you still feel like defending Don Rickles Trump? If you change your mind, you are just stupid.
You need to seriously get off of Trumps bandwagon and get behind Cruz 100%. Cruz is the best, brightest, most articulate, honest candidate running and he has NO skeletons in his closet. He has the media paralyzed with fear after he exposed them in that pathetic debate.
He knows all about the H1B visa scam & because he’s been on the inside as a Senator, he knows all about the slimey tricks Congress has pulled.
The dems and RINOs are most terrified of Cruz. They are the ones that despise him most and THEY are our TRUE enemies.
ABSOLUTLY NOT!!!
“In his biography, Carson has written about finding God after one of his violent outbursts, and doing so while sitting alone for hours in a bathroom”
If Carson “found Christ” he lost him a long time ago. He’s fake and phony liar that was a democrat for the majority of his voting life. His top advisor is Armstrong Williams, the crook who was paid $240,000 to promote Bush’s No Child Left Behind monstrosity. He’s also a good friend of Farrachan. A good friend of Carson’s is Sharpton. Like Colin Powell, Carson is a poster child of affirmative action and his joining the democrats right after he graduated from college is proof. He claims he joined the republican party in the middle 80s, then got mad with the party when they had the gall to impeach his friend Bill Clinton. And this is the man 20% of the republican electorate wants to see run against Hillary Clinton. He’s a joke and will get no where near the nomination. And in the last couple of weeks he turned into an amnesty pimp, constantly pandering for votes.
RE: Carson claims he has always been pro life, even when he was referring women to abortionists.
Donald Trump was not always pro-life either. He said that he changed his mind when he saw the experience of his friend’s wife.
So, if Trump can change his view, why not others?
RE: He’s fake and phony liar that was a democrat for the majority of his voting life.
Well, Ronald Reagan was a Democrat before he switched to being Republican. Can’t people change their minds?
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