Donald Trump’s national co-chair today defended the Republican nominee a day after a media firestorm over his references to President Obama as the “founder of ISIS” – a reference Trump today said was meant as “sarcasm”. Trump asked rhetorically, before adding in a separate tweet that ISIS grew strong during Clinton’s tenure as Obama’s secretary of state.
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On Thursday, the tangerine-hued blowhard was given the opportunity to walk these batshit claims back when he was interviewed by conservative commentator and MSNBC contributor Hugh Hewitt.
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This time he blamed U.S. broadcaster CNN.
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“I meant he’s (Obama) the founder of ISIS. I do”.
“Only Mr. Trump can answer and will answer for his tweet and statement”, Cohen said. “There is this kind of long tradition in our politics, especially in the last 30 or 40 years, of valuing candidates who are spontaneous and unfiltered”, says Greenberg.
Comedian Donald Trump on stage during one of his stand-up sets earlier this month in Wisconsin. “Our government has unleashed ISIS”, Trump said while speaking to the National Association of Home Builders. Trump did endorse Ryan a few days later.
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About Saddam: In July, Trump said former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was so good at killing terrorists. But amid falling poll numbers and an attempted pivot marked by a major policy address that offered up his second tax plan of the campaign, most of the week was spent trying to figure out what Trump actually meant each day.
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The founder of the Islamic State group was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qaida in Iraq who was killed in a USA airstrike in 2006. “They created the Libyan vacuum, they created the vacuum into which ISIS came, but they didn’t create ISIS”. It was Bush’s administration, not Obama’s, that negotiated the 2009 agreement that called for the withdrawal of all us forces from Iraq by December 31, 2011.
