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Trump May Hit Carson Hard Tonight

November 10, 2015 · 11:00 am ET · 47 Comments

First Read notes Donald Trump previewed a possible line of attack against Ben Carson: “Well, I feel badly for Ben. I’ve gotten to like Ben. And it’s a tough thing. I mean, he writes a book where he went after his mother, hit her on the head, or wanted to hit her on the head with a hammer. Hitting a friend in the face with a lock, with a padlock, hard in the face, stabbing somebody, only to be broken up by a belt buckle. And when he writes that he has pathological disease in a book, now he obviously wrote this book prior to thinking about running for office, I assume. But he said he has pathological disease.”

“Our prediction: Trump senses weakness, and he’s going for it.”

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