Trump is in a difficult position he’s not used to be in. He want to milk the situation but he also know its a lie. If I was him, don’t go there. It will show a level of desperation from his part if he use it to attack Carson, which is not needed.
I think after his exposure on SNL last night, which was almost entirely positive IMO, he would not serve his own interest by attacking Ben at this point. His better course of action will be to work on convincing Ben’s supporters to embrace his message and agenda for when Ben inevitably drops out. It seems very likely that Trump is going to be the nominee. I know Democrats that are crossing over for him. His message is resonating like an idea whose time has finally come.
Trump would be better off taking on Carson on the PR statehood.
Probably his ego, but Trump does need to understand that EVEN WHEN THE DRIVE-BYS FIND YOU "LESS REPREHENSIBLE" (Rubio, Bush) they will still lie because of the R next to your name. He needs to adopt the Cruz approach that an attack on one is an attack in all and "I can handle my own attacks if I need to launch them."
“He want to milk the situation but he also know its a lie.”
I think Trump, like many folks, doesn’t know if Carson is lying or not. Only Carson seems to know the truth of 5 or more significant instances in his life as written by himself in his autobiography, that are all designed in one way or the other to make Carson look heroic or bigger than life. However there appears to be no corroboration for any of them by any other person and there are actual factual errors in his stories.
And I suspect that the media that now has a bone to pick with Gentle Ben, as he not so gently attacked them, will now be going through his autobiography and other comments or writings the good Doctor has made in the past and/or more currently, to find further discrepancies or outright untruths. The MSM smells blood in the water. Time will tell whether they are right or not.
I would be very careful making a judgment one way or the other on Carlson until more facts come out. One thing we do know for sure is that Carlson is pro-immigration, pro Puerto Rico statehood (giving Dems more electoral college votes, along with 2 more Dem Senators and more Reps as well), associates with Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan the Jew hater, and appears very GOPe/RINO oriented, even if he is an outsider.
Plus I have always felt that Carson is being given secret funding by the GOPe to try to knock down Trump, and once that would be accomplished, they would then in turn knock down Carson. In other words, Ben is their useful idiot. Time will tell. By the way, what does Carson mean when he says he suffers from pathological disease, as he says in his autobiography. What did he mean?