Donald Trump has provided the public with yet another provocative sound bite. This time, he goes after Ben Carson’s purported childhood history of violence, comparing his “pathological” behavior to that of a child molester.
Trump tells CNN’s Erin Burnett that “frankly” he hasn’t read Carson’s book, but that the book “says he’s pathological.” Then Trump seizes on the “pathological” term:
“That’s a big problem, because you don’t cure that. That’s like–you know–I could say–they say you don’t cure–as an example, child molester. 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.”
That’s quite a comparison to make. Just so you know, though, Trump is careful to repeat that he isn’t discussing anything that Carson didn’t put out there himself (though I doubt Carson compared himself to a child molester). “I didn’t say it, he said it in his book,” Trump clarifies.
Trump also says that Carson and his stories about his childhood temper, whether true or not, scare him: “He’s saying these things happen and therefore I have credibility. And what I’m saying is, I’d rather have them if they didn’t happen. I don’t want somebody that hit somebody in the face really hard with a padlock.”
(Via CNN)