Don't dump on the Donald, billionaire Donald Trump is warning his GOP rivals just days after Rick Perry's campaign bit the dust. 'I hope they attack me, because everybody who attacks me is doomed,' Trump told the Wall Street Journal. In his three month bid for the White House, Perry had plenty of bad things to say about Trump, at one point calling him a 'cancer on conservatism.' 'He offers a barking carnival act that can be best described as Trumpism: a toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued,' said Perry in July. 'Let no one be mistaken: Donald Trump's candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded.'Rick Perry had called Donald Trump a 'cancer on conservatism' and a 'barking carnival act'Perry pulled out of the race Friday due to financial problemsTrump said Perry was 'nasty' to himThe billionaire challenged his other Republican rivals to go after him
His complaints were echoed by a number of talking heads, who saw Perry's exit as collateral damage in the over-Trumped _ primary race.