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Trump Now Calls ‘Founder of ISIS’ Comments ‘SARCASM’
U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump has unleashed on President Barack Obama, calling him “weak” just days after claiming he was the “founder of ISIS”. National security experts have said the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq in 2011 made it easier for ISIS-then known in Iraq as Al Qaeda, which experts say first started in 2003, before the USA invasion of Iraq, which Trump supported-to gain power in the region.
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“Donald Trump has shown that he lies every single day and then the next day he just tries to claim it was sarcasm”, Moulton said.
Gingrich said if Trump had said Obama and Clinton’s policies had created the opening for ISIS, he’d be defensible.
Terrorism expert Sebastian Gorka said Trump is “absolutely right” in crediting Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton with the rise of the extremist group. “I gave her co-founder if you really looked at this speech”, Trump said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box”.
Trump: “I don’t care”.
There’s something enviable about the fact that each new day for Donald Trump is a clean slate. “Look, he has been as a president a disaster bad judgment”, he said.
Obama did not found ISIS. If the cheering crowds at his hate-filled rallies are happy, Trump is happy.
On Friday Hillary Clinton released her 2015 tax returns and renewed a challenge for Trump to do the same.
The clarification raised new questions about the Republican presidential nominee’s ability to communicate clearly to the American public. Here was opportunity number two for Trump to say, “Oh yeah, I was just joking”. “I do. He was the most valuable player”.
The real founder was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed by US forces under the administration of George W. Bush in 2006.
Ms Clinton has attacked Mr Trump for the remarks, writing on Twitter: “It can be hard to muster outrage as frequently as Donald Trump should cause it, but his smear against president Obama requires it”.
Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University, said that claiming the sitting president is the founder of a terrorist organization “crosses a line” in campaign rhetoric. “I do”, Trump said, using another acronym for the extremist group. “I gave him the most valuable player award”, Trump told Hewitt.
The campaign is due to meet RNC officials in Orlando on Friday, the Associated Press reported, with both Republican officials and Trump’s staff saying the meeting is focused on the campaign in Florida and not tensions between the campaign and the GOP.
Trump also referred to the president by his full name – Barack Hussein Obama – which is often used as a dog whistle by Obama’s fringe critics who believe the president is Muslim or is secretly sympathetic to Islamic terrorists.
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Clinton responded to Trump’s comments on Thursday by tweeting back, trying to turn the remarks against him.