“I call President Obama and Hillary Clinton the founders of ISIS”. He went on a rant stating: “He’s the founder of ISIS”. On Thursday, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt practically begged him to narrow his definition. “He was the most valuable player”, Trump said, using an acronym for the militant Islamist group, adding that Clinton also deserved the MVP award. But that is not what Trump said on Wednesday-and, much more importantly, also not what he wanted voters to hear, as the candidate himself has since made clear.
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“This man is going to win”, said Priebus.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, in Kissimmee, Fla.
Undeterred, Trump stayed on-message, “I don’t care”. And I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.
Trump has blamed Obama’s decision to pull USA forces from Iraq in 2011 for destabilizing the Middle East and creating a situation in which Islamic State militants could thrive.
“I would say they could be tried there”, Trump said. It doesn’t matter to Trump whether his wild-eyed accusations are true; it doesn’t matter to him whether they’re offensive.
Trump brought Priebus on stage later at another rally, in Altoona, Pennsylvania, to thank him for the work he has done as he insisted there is great unity in the party.
After Trump made a speech in which he suggested Second Amendment supporters could block Hillary Clinton from appointing a justice favoring gun control, he and Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity – also a Trump supporter – addressed criticism that he was suggesting violence against the Democratic candidate.
Hewitt pressed him further: “But he’s not sympathetic to them”.
Greenfield also noted that while talking to Business Insider, Clinton regurgitated a claim made by former Central Intelligence Agency chief Michael Hayden that Trump had become a “recruiting sergeant” for ISIS.
“I love charts! I love charts!” said an upbeat GOP standard bearer to an audience that included thousands in an overflow room. He hates them. He’s trying to kill them. “I do”, Trump told Hewitt, according to the show’s transcript. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press”. Trump comes to what political analysts call the “swing part of the swing state”, the part of the I-4 corridor that decides elections, and doesn’t try to appeal to Puerto Ricans, the rapidly growing population that some have predicted could pick the next president for Florida and the nation. (It looks to have been pretty excruciating.) That same year, Obama roasted Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner-an experience which, as has now been widely reported, steeled Trump’s resolve to run for president. The group rebranded after his death, becoming ISIS, and under the guidance of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has capitalized on a series of missteps by both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations – along with a civil war in Syria and Iraqi government failures – to create a new global terror state.
Obama did not found ISIS.
Trump has previously criticised Clinton for supporting the Iraq War in 2003 while she was a U.S. senator.
You know, like The Donald.
DT: I gave her the co-founder.
DT: I mean, with his bad policies, that’s why ISIS came about.
Republicans frequently trace the birth of Islamic State to the Obama administration’s decision to withdraw the last USA forces from Iraq by the end of 2011.
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Pleading for his family’s business, McLanahan said, “We stand behind Donald Trump as a solid businessman”.
