Trump’s accusation against Obama and Clinton went well beyond a charge made in the past by him and other Republicans: that the president and former secretary of state helped create the conditions for the rise of Islamic State by withdrawing USA troops from Iraq in 2011.
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Hillary Clinton on Friday released her tax return for past year and criticized her opponent Donald Trump for failing to honour this tradition among American politicians running for president.
Washington:Republican candidate Donald Trump roiled the United States presidential campaign once again, with the jaw-dropping assertion Wednesday that Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama “founded” the IS group.
Media critics blasted Trump for what they reported as offensive language, with one CNN host accusing Trump of calling Obama a traitor. He added, in all capital letters- “THEY DON’T GET SARCASM?”.
Those concerns are compelling enough that dozens of anxious Republicans gathered signatures on Thursday for a letter urging the party chairman to stop helping Mr Trump and focus on protecting vulnerable House and Senate candidates.
He also said that ISIS honors Obama, and called Obama and Clinton “co-founders” and “MVP’s” of ISIS. “I never expect to hear that from you again”.
In the previous commentaries and interviews of Trump, he labeled Hillary Clinton as the “co-founder” or “Most Valuable Player” of the terrorist group known as ISIS or ISIL.
“He gets the most valuable player award. And he is the founder and she is right there with him”, Trump said. Jake Sullivan, the campaign’s senior policy adviser, said it was “another example” of the NY businessman “trash-talking the United States”.
“We’re having a problem”, Mr Trump told the ministers, adding that the next president could get to nominate up to five high court justices.
The clarification raised new questions about the Republican presidential nominee’s ability to communicate clearly to the American public.
Trump was scheduled to hold rallies in Erie and Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Friday. After Hewitt asked if Trump meant that the Obama’s administration’s policies in the Middle East had created a vacuum that gave rise to ISIS, Trump insisted that his statement was literal. After a storm of criticism, he said a day later that the remark was sarcastic. “Sometimes somebody will say, ‘Well, we’re not going to support Trump.’ They’re not going to support because they aren’t the people that I want”. “I go back to a very good way of life”.
Trump says he’s been putting “a lot of money” into the Republican Party.
“I know what you meant”.
Asked specifically about USA citizens, he said he did not like that President Obama and others wanted to try them in traditional courts rather than military commissions at Guantanamo Bay.
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He lost the peace”, Hewitt told Trump, to which Trump responded: “No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS. “I think you would probably be rewarded mightily by our press”, he said at the news conference. On Aug. 9 Trump said that he has spent $0 so far in television advertising in the general election, compared to $52 million by his democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.
