He also noted: “I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton”.
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This morning, Trump said in a CNBC interview that the us government should take on more debt to strengthen the military and rebuild infrastructure, going against the traditional Republican aversion to government borrowing.
“In fact, I think we will give Hillary Clinton, you know, if you’re on a sports team, most valuable player, MVP”, Trump said.
After he was asked about his statements Thursday morning, a true-to-form Trump opted not to walk back or apologize, but instead double down on his misguided hate-mongering. He also stood by his assertions in another interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt on “The Hugh Hewitt Show“. “But he was the founder, absolutely the founder”, said Trump.
With comments like these – no matter how accurate his critique of the troop withdrawal – Trump seems determined to waste this opportunity to win the White House, running against one of the most corrupt, least trusted, and least liked Democratic candidates in history.
Trump in recent days has accused Hillary Clinton rhetorically of being the founder of IS.
“This is another example of Donald Trump trash-talking the United States”, Clinton’s senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement.
Trump has been under near-constant scrutiny for his discussion of sensitive world events, with his opponents using favorable comments he’s made toward Vladimir Putin and other dictators as evidence of misplaced priorities.
In June, he said in a telephone interview with Fox News that the president, in reference to the threat from ISIS, either “doesn’t get it or he gets it better than anybody understands”. “So there’s a very powerful case to be made”.
“But by using the term founder, they’re hitting with you on this again”, Hewitt pressed.
“He inflames the debate, and we don’t need the flame, we need cold, rational discussion”, Hayden said, adding, “He insults his audience”.
“He gets the most valuable player award”.
That’s right, Trump named Obama the founder of ISIS and Hillary as the co-founder.
Since then, Trump said he wasn’t mocking the reporter.
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At the Erie rally, he slammed the “dishonest media” for dissecting his words when they knew what he really meant, the Hill reported.
