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Trump likens Carson's 'pathology' to that of a child molester
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/12/politics/donald-trump-ben-carson-child-molester/index.html ^

Posted on 11/12/2015 4:37:48 PM PST by springwater13

Donald Trump said Thursday that Ben Carson's self-described "pathological temper" is incurable -- adding that it's like the sickness of a "child molester."

"It's in the book that he's got a pathological temper," Trump told "Erin Burnett OutFront," speaking about Carson's autobiography. "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."

In his 1990 autobiography, "Gifted Hands," Carson attributes violent behavior in his youth to his "disease," a "pathological temper" that the Republican presidential hopeful said caused him to strike one friend with a rock and attempt to stab another. In subsequent accounts of his violent youth, Carson said he once attempted to attack his mother with a hammer.

"I'm not bringing up anything that's not in his book," Trump told Erin Burnett. "You know, when he says he went after his mother and wanted to hit her in the head with a hammer, that bothers me. I mean, that's pretty bad. When he says he's pathological -- and he says that in the book, I don't say that -- and again, I'm not saying anything, I'm not saying anything other than pathological is a very serious disease. And he said he's pathological, somebody said he has pathological disease."

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: carson; pathological; trump
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To: JediJones
Against socialists/communists yes but it could also backfire and get Hillary! sympathy votes.

Carson's policy ideas will sink him. He is a brilliant surgeon and destroying him on a personal level isn't honorable.

41 posted on 11/12/2015 5:03:42 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: CatherineofAragon
He found Jesus, didn't he?

He found a cult known as the Seventh Day Adventists. He would be the first Commander In Chief with a belief of a conscientious objector status. He would be willing to send my son off to die somewhere while he would not have to guts to do it himself.

He is not qualified to be President.

42 posted on 11/12/2015 5:05:27 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Son-of-a-Bitch!)
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To: freespirit2012

Do you have proof that he had overcome? May be he is still using hammer and Knife on his family members.

Have you seen his closing eyes ritual while speaking?


43 posted on 11/12/2015 5:05:59 PM PST by jennychase
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To: springwater13

I can’t wait to hear what Carson has to say about this. Trump keeps showing his true colors more and more.


44 posted on 11/12/2015 5:06:48 PM PST by mlizzy (America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
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To: jennychase

That blinking thing. Curiously, it’s hardly mentioned on google/youtube/bing. Strange.


45 posted on 11/12/2015 5:07:53 PM PST by proust (Texan for Trump!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

LOL... It is pointless to put too much thought into Carson, as he stands no chance of winning the nomination...


46 posted on 11/12/2015 5:09:11 PM PST by freespirit2012
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To: conservativejoy
Hubby just told me that was what Ellen G White taught. My DiL is a 7th Day, has been for years, and she's never heard that. I would guess that some branches reject that.

Walter Martin's book, Kingdom of the Cults, removed Seventh Day Adventists from the list of cults.

47 posted on 11/12/2015 5:10:17 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Trump didn’t need to focus on this particular attack. Just focus on the pyramid idiocy as well as his relationship with the pill pushers.


48 posted on 11/12/2015 5:10:46 PM PST by GulliverSwift
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To: CatherineofAragon

“You probably should get upset with your candidate instead of the reasonable people who have a problem with such a lunatic remark.”

In the scheme of things, what is worse: Carson admitting he had a pathological disease, as opposed to someone pointing out that Carson admitted he had a pathological disease, or someone who calls for shooting down Russian jets over Syria (jets that may be destroying ISIS), calling for amnesty, supporting TPP, allowing Puerto Rico to become a state, etc.?


49 posted on 11/12/2015 5:11:10 PM PST by odawg
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To: jennychase

I have no proof that he has overcome his pathological temper... But, if I had to bet, my money would be that he has or else we would have heard something about it..


50 posted on 11/12/2015 5:11:48 PM PST by freespirit2012
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To: winner3000

I think Carson is in a cult, not Christianity.


51 posted on 11/12/2015 5:11:55 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Target and JC Pennys went gay and lost the farm.)
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To: springwater13

I can’t disagree more. Even if one discounts divine intervention, there are a whole host of things that people can do to learn to manage their anger problems.

Beyond that, if Carson had anger problems no doubt there would be plenty of people who’d worked with him talking about his temper. As a pediatric neurosurgeon, Carson worked in a high-stress environment that would have brought out any anger problems he had. Not only that, given the smear that the media has been attempting on his character, if Carson had a problem with anger, we’d likely see at least a hint of it by now.

Trump is way out of bounds with this one.


52 posted on 11/12/2015 5:15:53 PM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: mlizzy

“Trump keeps showing his true colors more and more.”

You mean, Trump quoting what Carson has admitted about himself is TRUMP showing his true colors?

Scenario: A guy has a girl out in his car alone. He looks at her and says, “You know, I once stabbed (or attempted) my best friend and I attacked my mother with a hammer because I had a pathological temper, a disease. I have overcome that throught my faith. Will you marry me?”


53 posted on 11/12/2015 5:22:00 PM PST by odawg
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To: DJ MacWoW

If an SDA still views Ellen G. White’s teachings as equal to Scripture they are still in deception. Only Jesus can judge a person’s heart, but I try to stay away from something founded by a false prophetess.


54 posted on 11/12/2015 5:22:18 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God,,,, We can elect Ted Cruz!)
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To: springwater13

Trump’s attacks on Carson smell like politics as usual. You can disagree with Carson on things like Mannatech or immigration etc. but you should not be hammering him with 50 year-old anecdotes he told on himself as illustrations of how much he changed for the good as an adolescent.

It makes Trump look like an opportunistic and unprincipled caricature of the real-estate developer that he is.


55 posted on 11/12/2015 5:23:13 PM PST by Tom Bombadil
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To: FourPeas

I wouldn’t say Trump is out of bounds by raising a question about his personality given the attempted attack on his mother with a hammer.... however, I would agree with you that Carson has likely overcome his pathological anger problem..


56 posted on 11/12/2015 5:24:58 PM PST by freespirit2012
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To: springwater13

The point being made here is the incurability comparison.


57 posted on 11/12/2015 5:25:35 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: springwater13

I fear the moment if it should hsppen of an event of a mass terrorist attack all across America, hundreds of schools have syrian terrorists beheading children, and at that moment Carson breaks, he either breaks down or uses all the power of his resources as POTUS and shotgun nukes everything else, he sees terrorists cells in Paris, it gets nuked, in Montreal it gets nuked, does not care about casulties, its all about letting go with repressed rage that has stayed deeply hidden but always there.

He would be i think go so far as to collect all the muslims in America, ALL of them. No exceptions.


58 posted on 11/12/2015 5:26:06 PM PST by Daniel Ramsey (Trump to win! He wins, we win, the nation wins!)
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To: Tom Bombadil

Correction, a many times over highly successful billionaire real estate mogul who has employed more and built an empire through failures and successes. I like someone who come out and speak his mind vs. the candy a@@ coddled culture that permeates this diseased nation.


59 posted on 11/12/2015 5:26:41 PM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: springwater13

Trump is a jackass, also incurable.


60 posted on 11/12/2015 5:26:59 PM PST by dead ("I'm up to my eyeball in virgin goats!" - Mullah Omar)
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