One-time GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain said Thursday that one difference he sees between himself and current Republican front-runner Donald Trump is that Mr. Trump has the means to sue people “who will lie against him.”

“The difference between Donald Trump’s rise and my rise, and me dropping out of the race, is that, quite frankly, he has enough money to sue all of those people who will lie against him,” Mr. Cain said Thursday on “Fox and Friends.”

“I didn’t have enough money to sue, have three lawsuits going on at the same time - plus, the impact on my family,”Mr. Cain said. “We could have endured the impact on my family, but when you’re distracted from your campaign, worrying about how the media is trying to create a frenzy - some of them, not all - when they’re trying to create a frenzy to bring you down, you have to make a decision.”

Mr. Cain, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, rocketed up in some of the polls on the 2012 GOP presidential primary race in the fall of 2011 but ended up suspending his campaign amid a series of sexual misconduct allegations.

“I believe that Trump has staying power…number one, he’s not playing by the rules, he doesn’t care about political [correctness], and that is connecting with Main Street, USA, as well as a lot of conservatives,” Mr. Cain said.

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