Trump unleashes rant against White House rival Carson
Republican presidential frontrunner
Donald Trump has unleashed a stunning
verbal assault on his nearest competitor
Ben Carson, saying US voters were
“stupid” to believe the doctor’s moving
personal narrative and comparing him
to a pedophile.
It was Trump’s most aggressive
campaign speech yet in his bombastic
run for the 2016 Republican nomination,
hurling sharp insults against several
rivals including “weak-like-a-baby”
Senator Marco Rubio and business
executive “Carly whatever-the-hell-her-
name-is” Fiorina.
The billionaire real estate tycoon pulled
no punches during a Thursday night
stump speech that devolved into a 95-
minute rant in Fort Dodge, Iowa, the
state that votes first in the presidential
nomination process.
He reserved his harshest criticism for
Carson, already under scrutiny for the
details of what he has said was a violent
adolescence in which he claims to have
tried to stab another young man.
Trump flipped his belt buckle up and
down, ridiculing Carson’s claim in his
1990 autobiography “Gifted Hands” that
the boy’s belt buckle prevented the knife
from entering his body.
“Anybody have a knife? Want to try it
on me? Believe me, it ain’t gonna work,”
Trump said, indicating that a buckle
would provide no protection.
But in Carson’s account, Trump said, “he
plunged it into the belt and, amazing, the
belt stayed totally flat and the knife
broke.”
“Give me a break,” he fumed. “How
stupid are the people of Iowa? How
stupid are the people of the country to
believe this crap?”
The caustic attacks were a world apart
from Trump’s restrained demeanor
during Tuesday’s Republican primary
debate, where he issued no attacks on
Carson.
It was a different story Thursday as
Trump turned brusque.
During an interview with CNN, he
repeated his accusation that Carson had
a “pathological” temper, quoting directly
from Carson’s book, adding that it
equates to the sickness of a child
molester.
Hours later, Trump doubled down on the
comparison at the rally in Iowa, where
Trump and Carson are running neck-
and-neck.
“That’s like, I could say, you don’t cure,
as an example, a child molester,” he told
the crowd.
“If you’re a child molester, a sick puppy,
you’re a child molester. There’s no cure
for that.”
Trump also directed his ire at extremists
in the Middle East, and President Barack
Obama’s policies there.
“I know more about ISIS than the
generals do,” Trump boasted, as he
crudely summarized his plan to deal
with the Islamic State extremist group
and take the oil it uses to finance its
operations.
“I would bomb the shit out of them,” he
said to loud applause.
“That’s right: I’d blow up the pipes, I’d
blow up the refineries. I’d blow up every
single inch, there would be nothing left.”
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