Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds up a placard while addressing supporters during a campaign rally at Silver Spurs Arena, inside the Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida on August 11, 2016. Despite his November election chances looking bleak, Trump has continued to make controversial comments that are not likely to help him win swing votes.
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Trump’s campaign planned to sit down with RNC officials in Orlando on Friday. “All I do is tell the truth”, Trump told CNBC News. Not only his political opponents, but many from his own party and the mainstream media expressed their outrage at such a statement by Trump. Everyone’s liking it. I think they’re liking it. Trump maintains a 40% appeal according to the latest CNN poll.
Yet on Thursday, Trump was reduced to citing a poll that actually showed him a few points behind Clinton and arguing the race between them was close. “What happens when he presses the nuclear button and then the next day says, “Oh, I’m sorry, I was just being sarcastic”?”
“But one of the things that is frustrating about his candidacy is his imprecise language”. “He sometimes uses three words when he needs 10”.
“I don’t care. He was the founder”, Trump said once again.
“No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS”.
“…the interest rates are so low, I mean, the numbers are so low, that yes this is a time to borrow and borrow long-term”. “He (Obama) was the founder of ISIS, absolutely”.
In a Thursday interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Trump fiercely defended his claim.
Trump’s comments were seen as accusing Obama of creating conditions that allowed IS to thrive. “Are people complaining that I said he was the founder of ISIS?” But he and Hillary get the most valuable player award having to do with Iraq. In fact, he gets in sports they have awards he gets the most valuable player award. And I give it to him, and I give it to, I gave the co-founder to Hillary.
Hewitt asked Trump if he would acknowledge that Obama hates the Islamic State, noting that the president is “trying to kill them”.
Asked specifically about United States citizens, he said he did not like that President Obama and others wanted to try them in traditional courts rather than military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. “He was the founder”.
The founder of the Islamic State group was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qaida in Iraq who was killed in a US airstrike in 2006.
He said Republicans and Democrats agree that these actions have allowed the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, to flourish in the Middle East. Obama has stated that Trump is unfit to be President. “He’s the founder. He founded ISIS”.
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On Thursday night at a rally in Florida, he repeated the claim, explaining that if the president had maintained a small force in Iraq, he could have prevented the militant group’s rise.
