The Republican presidential nominee has endured 10 days of negative headlines after a string of controversial comments.
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Hewitt and Trump went back and forth after that, with Hewitt warning Trump that his critics would seize on his use of “founder” as more example of Trump being loose with words. He told a gathering of evangelical ministers Thursday he’s “having a tremendous problem in Utah”. “It could cost us the Supreme Court”.
After trouncing 16 challengers in the Republican primary, Trump is encountering worrying signs as his campaign moves into the general election.
On Thursday, Clinton admonished Trump for the Islamic State “smear” against the USA president.
Trump tweeted Friday morning that the media was missing his sarcasm.
Could the Obama administration have fought harder to retain a USA troop presence in Iraq?
In a nod to environmental concerns that Clinton has been voicing, Trump added: “We want clean water”.
“No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS”. Trump told CNBC. “Why – are people complaining that I said he was the founder of ISIS?”
In recent weeks, several leading Republicans have deserted Mr Trump over his outspoken attacks. The state’s large Mormon population has voiced serious skepticism about Trump, though the state’s GOP governor has endorsed him.
Trump’s low-key appearances in Virginia came the day after he faced an uproar for suggesting in a North Carolina rally that gun-rights enthusiasts might find a way to stop Clinton if she’s elected, a remark that Democrats said encouraged violence against the Democratic nominee.
Obama had opposed the Iraq war and campaigned for the White House in 2008 on a promise to end it.
Mr. Obama, a Christian, was born in Hawaii.
Trump raised eyebrows when he made that claim and gave many details of what he said he saw in the film.
Recent opinion polls have shown Trump losing ground to Clinton, a former US senator and first lady, in the race for the November 8 election.
“I hope the Republicans are watching closely”, he said.
“You know how they get out?”
Donald Trump is now accusing President Barack Obama of founding the Islamic State group that is wreaking havoc from the Middle East to European cities. If the cheering crowds at his hate-filled rallies are happy, Trump is happy.
The New York real estate developer has previously attacked Obama and Clinton, secretary of state from 2009-13, for how the United States pulled out of Iraq after the war, saying it helped create the militant Islamist group that has seized swaths of Iraq and Syria. Lauderdale, Fla. “He is the founder of ISIS”.
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Speaker Ryan and all you other reluctant Trump supporters, you know as well as I do that he’s not going to change. At least 70 Republicans have signed the letter so far, according to Republican operative Andrew Weinstein, who said it included five former members of Congress and 16 former RNC staffers.
