Mr Trump responded: “No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS. I do”.
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Then, on Thursday morning, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked the candidate if he actually meant that Obama’s actions had created a vacuum in Syria.
“As I’ve said, I’ve always planned to support the Republican nominee and at this point, I’m still in that same place”, Corker said.
Trump had previously said Clinton founded the militant group, but shifted the blame to Obama on Wednesday during a rally in Florida.
When Hewitt said Democrats would seize on the “founder” comment to attack Trump’s foreign policy views, Trump repeated that he hadn’t erred.
HollywoodLifers, who will YOU be voting for this Nov., Hillary or Trump? ISIS is a common acronym for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. “I would say the cofounder would be crooked Hillary Clinton”.
“Everyone’s liking it. I think they’re liking it”, Trump said.
Trump has repeatedly said the Democratic president bears primary blame for the latest phase of a terrorist campaign that has targeted the US and Western Europe for decades. “No, Barack Obama is not the founder of ISIS”.
Ret. Maj. Gen James “Spider” Marks said Thursday that Hillary Clinton will do a better job defending the country and the Constitution than Donald Trump.
And he doggedly pursued that line of thought in a later speech to homebuilders in Miami on Thursday, suggesting it was Mrs Clinton who would be given “the most valuable player award” by Islamic State.
Trump also reiterated his recent claim that Clinton and President Barack Obama are co-founders of the Islamic State terrorist group. Unwilling to see reason (at all), Trump replied, “I don’t care”.
Trump has been under near-constant scrutiny for his discussion of sensitive world events, with his opponents using favorable comments he’s made toward Vladimir Putin and other dictators as evidence of misplaced priorities.
“No, Barack Obama is not the founder of ISIS”, Clinton tweeted. “I can provide serious, steady leadership that can find common ground and build on it based on hard but respectful bargaining”, she said.
Trump did not back down, asking on CNBC: “Is there something wrong with saying that?”.
“ISIS will hand her the most valuable player award”, he said of Mrs Clinton.
I’m a truth teller. Just another reason Trump is unfit to be president.
Hewitt even attempted to counter Trump’s statement by saying that Obama is “trying to kill them” and is “not sympathetic” to them.
But many analysts argue its roots lie in the decision of George W. Bush’s Republican administration to invade Iraq in 2003 without a plan to fill the vacuum created by Saddam Hussein’s ouster.
Phillip told The Associated Press Wednesday he had recently resigned as both state campaign director and as deputy chair of Trump’s National Diversity Coalition.
“It is either going to work or I am going to you know have a very very nice long vacation, ” he said.
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“Agriculture is a business and he understands the business of what is going on”, Jones said.
