Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump lashed out at critics in the media who attacked his comments about President Obama being the founder of ISIS. Except that they had no problem with it when Hillary Clinton called Trump an ISIS recruiter.
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GOP concerns about Trump are compelling enough that dozens of anxious Republicans were gathering signatures for a letter urging the party’s chairman to stop helping Trump and focus on protecting vulnerable House and Senate candidates, according to a draft obtained by the Associated Press.
In a follow-up tweet Friday morning that may have also been related to the recent controversy, Trump hit media personalities who were “working so hard and so seriously to try and figure me out”.
“If they want to do that they can save me a lot of time and a lot of energy”, he told Fox News.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump has acknowledged that his presidential campaign faces challenges and could ultimately fall short.
When a CNBC host suggested that such rhetoric might not play well in battleground states, Trump insisted that his commitment to the truth took precedence over politicalexpediency.
This time he blamed USA broadcaster CNN. He is the founder of ISIS. Republicans believe that the US decision to leave Iraq in 2011 created a power vacuum that allowed al-Qaida in Iraq, a subsidiary of the larger terror group al-Qaida, to morph into the 30,000-strong Islamic State group that in 2014 seized a third of Syria and Iraq. Obama has stated that Trump is unfit to be President.
“Anyone willing to sink so low, so often should never be allowed to serve as our commander-in-chief”, she wrote.
The White House has not responded to Trump.
On average, Hillary Clinton is up in the polls by 6.3 percent with the NBC News/SM poll giving the Democratic nominee 10 points above Trump, according to Real Clear Politics.
Also on Tuesday at a rally in North Carolina, Trump labeled Clinton the Islamic State’s “most valuable player”.
Trump first made the comments about Obama founding ISIS in a Wednesday speech, referring to president by including his middle name, “Barack Hussein Obama”.
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Mr. Trump raised the line about Mr. Obama being the “founder” of the group, and Hillary Clinton a co-founder, at a rally in Florida Wednesday evening, declining multiple opportunities in interviews and public appearances in the following 24 hours to clarify or walk back the labeling.
