Plagiarize Ben Carson, and he doesn’t mind. Say he has “pathological disease” — compare his mind to that of a child molester — and he’s unbothered. Wrong him, and he shall not revenge.
Instead, he’ll say he’s not even mad. He’s actually impressed by how Trump’s blunt force against him worked so well.
“[Trump] said it was political. He was concerned about the fact he couldn’t shake me. I understand politics, particularly the politics of personal destruction. And you have to admit to a degree that it did work,” Carson told Yahoo News of the way Trump mercilessly attacked his dignity on the campaign trail. “A lot of people believed him.”
In addition to questioning the famously even-tempered Carson’s mental state, Trump farcically mocked part of his backstory in a theatrical display, doubting the physics of a stabbing attempt Carson said he made as a youth. The New York businessman also challenged other aspects of Carson’s biography, leading Carson to ask, “What does it say about people who immediately jump on the bandwagon when they hear something bad rather than waiting and finding out what the truth is?… I would not be anxious to have a commander in chief who acts like that.”
Five months later, he’s endorsed that man to be commander in chief.
Carson says he’s unbothered by Trump, including recently published accusations from The Daily Caller that Trump lifted sections of an opinion piece he wrote. Trump published his own article that used identical language to Carson’s piece in multiple places throughout the writing.
“I would say that many of the people that worked for me previously are now working for Donald Trump, so that doesn’t surprise me at all,” Carson told CNN Wednesday. “Let me put it this way: It doesn’t bother me at all.”
To the contrary, that’s amazing.
