Donald Trump Just Did a Dramatic Reenactment of Ben Carson’s Stabbing

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Donald Trump is trailing Ben Carson in Iowa and it’s starting to get to him. On Thursday night, he told an audience in Iowa that Carson is “pathological, damaged,” and sought to prove his point by reenacting the pediatric neurosurgeon’s infamous childhood stabbing, in which he claims to have thrust a knife at his relative’s abdomen, only to be stopped by a belt buckle. Trump used the incident to paint Carson as both a pathologically violent maniac and a fabulist who couldn’t possibly have committed such an act of violence. “How stupid are the people of Iowa?” he asked. “How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?”

Update: Trump continued piling onto Carson’s knife story with a web ad released Friday:

 

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