At the Wednesday rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Trump said that IS “in many respects” honors Obama.
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Donald Trump’s criticism that ISIS rose to prominence during the Obama administration ignored President Bush’s role in removing US troops from Iraq.
“I think what Donald Trump was clearly saying was that people who cherish that right, people who believe that firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens makes our communities more safe, not less safe, should be involved in the political process and let their voice be heard”, Pence said. “I gave him the most valuable player award”.
As to the charge that Clinton co-founded ISIS, she left the State Department in January 2013 and ISIS wasn’t founded until three months later.
Hewitt disagreed, arguing that Obama isn’t sympathetic to Islamic State because he is “trying to kill them”.
Donald Trump says Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton co-founded Isis. “He was the founder”.
America’s Republican presidential nominee has purposefully and defiantly named President Obama as founding ISIS, aided and abetted by Clinton.
Mr Trump denies that this conversation ever took place.
“ISIS is a solid GOP message to show contrast with Hillary Clinton and the failures of the Obama-Clinton administration”, said Alice Stewart, a Republican strategist who remains undecided about the nominee, using acronyms for Islamic State and the Republican Party.
Clinton’s White House campaign described Trump’s remarks as a “false claim”.
“Anyone willing to sink so low, so often should never be allowed to serve as our commander-in-chief”, she wrote.
You might also point to the near-criminal indifference by the current White House to the slow-motion catastrophe that has unfolded in Syria. Trump said. “Look, all I do is tell the truth”.
After trouncing 16 challengers in the Republican primary, Trump is encountering worrying signs as his campaign moves into the general election.
“Do you not like that?”
“I think I would say they created, they lost the peace”.
“The leadership of President Obama and Hillary Clinton that saw the irresponsible withdrawal of USA forces without a status of forces agreement, created a vacuum in which terrorist group ISIS was able to spawn”.
“But tomorrow, or later today, he could blame (Republican Senator) Jeff Flake for A-Rod’s retirement”, Cullen said, referring to Yankees player Alex Rodriguez’s decision to leave professional baseball.
“I don’t care”, Trump replied.
In 2007, however, Trump actually supported a rapid withdrawal from Iraq, despite hitting Obama for his drawdown years later.
None of these factors can be easily ascribed to Obama or to Clinton, although certainly they did preside over the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq at the end of 2011, a plan bequeathed to them by Bush.
In June, he said in a telephone interview with Fox News that the president, in reference to the threat from ISIS, either “doesn’t get it or he gets it better than anybody understands”. “That’s how they get out”. If he would have done things properly, you wouldn’t have had ISIS. They’re in a civil war over there, Wolf.
He told CNN in March 2007 that the US should declare victory and get out because Iraq was going to get further bogged down in civil strife.
The comments from 2007 were resurfaced Thursday by Buzzfeed.
Trump first made the assertion in a speech on Wednesday night in Florida.
There’s no question about this: President Obama is not the founder of ISIS.
Clinton spokesman Jesse Lehrich, in response to Trump’s comments, pointed to United States advances against the militant group in Libya this week.
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Presented with a series of bad swing state poll numbers and asked how he would “close that gap”, Trump cut off any talk of changing course. “It goes without saying that this is a false claim from a presidential candidate with an aversion to the truth and an unprecedented lack of knowledge”.
