PRESIDENT-hopeful Donald Trump attempted to do away with the controversy surrounding his campaign on Friday by insisting he was not being serious when he insisted President Obama and Hillary Clinton “founded” ISIS.
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“But he’s not sympathetic to them”, Hewitt tried again.
Trump wasn’t having it: “No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS. I do. THEY DON’T GET SARCASM?“, Trump wrote in a tweet. “He was the most valuable player”. I know what you meant.
Asked whether he thought it was “appropriate to call the sitting president of the United States the founder of a terrorist organization that wants to kill Americans”, Trump replied, “He was the founder of ISIS”. “I do. He was the most valuable player”. He told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt “No, I meant that he’s the founder of ISIS, I do. I give her, too, by the way, Hillary Clinton”, Trump said, according to a transcript of the interview.
Well, judging by his Twitter account Friday morning, it turns out he was just joking. After the June attack on an Orlando nightclub, an incident in which the shooter was apparently inspired by Isis, Mr Trump seemed to imply Mr Obama was somehow involved. He added (in all caps): “THEY DON’T GET SARCASM?”
There isn’t media bias going on here: reporting what Trump says, repeats, defends, clarifies, and confirms is exactly what the media exists to do. “This President is not the founder of ISIS”.
Trump made his allegation at a rally in Florida and repeated it Thursday.
Also on Tuesday at a rally in North Carolina, Trump labeled Clinton the Islamic State’s “most valuable player”.
Former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani went to great lengths to support Trump in an interview with CNN on Thursday.
Not one to shy away from outrageous comments and inflammatory assumptions, the GOP nominee has recently shifted a laser focus on President Barack Obama. They’d come in. You ever negotiate with the Chinese?
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“It goes without saying that this is a false claim from a presidential candidate with an aversion to the truth and an unprecedented lack of knowledge”, Clinton senior policy advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement.
