“And I think he was driving a point”.
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Hewitt asked Trump if he would acknowledge that Obama hates the Islamic State, noting that the president is “trying to kill them”.
The Republican presidential nominee is straying from his signature bravado as he campaigns in the battleground state of Florida. During an interview Friday morning, CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed Trump Organization Executive VP Michael Cohen about his boss’ ISIS comments.
ISIS is a group that formed following the United States’ 2003 invasion of Iraq. Known for its brutality, the group in 2014 declared an Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq, where fighting continues to rage.
Republican Donald Trump is now saying that his description of Barack Obama as a founder of the Islamic State group was sarcasm.
Some Republicans see a small silver lining in Trump talking more about Clinton. He’s the founder. He founded ISIS. The rise of the group also can be attributed to its savvy in using social media to recruit fighters and followers and its ability to reap millions, including through smuggling oil.
Clinton blasted Trump’s claims, contending that “anyone willing to sink so low, so often should never be allowed to serve as our commander-in-chief”. However, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called Trump’s comments “bizarre” at a news conference on Capitol Hill. And they are the ones Trump is talking to. He added, : “They don’t get sarcasm?”
Clinton posted on Twitter that Trump’s comments are disqualifying. “Take a look at what’s going on, and then worldwide, and we let ISIS take this position”, he said. “Her weakness. Her weak policies”.
“What Donald Trump is tapping into here is very simple ― that the policies of this administration of which Hillary Clinton was a big member for many years have left us less safe and vulnerable”, GOP pollster and Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway told MSNBC Thursday.
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“We believe that Donald Trump’s divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide”, read a draft text of the letter to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, obtained by the Politico newspaper. At Wednesday’s rally, the crowd cheered, “Lock her up!” in response to Trump’s attack.
