Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump attends a campaign rally at the Silver Spurs Arena in Kissimmee, Florida August 11, 2016.
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The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group cited Donald Trump in accusing the USA and President Barack Obama of creating Islamic State, becoming the latest American adversary to quote or praise the Republican nominee.
No, I meant hes the founder of ISIS.
Trump claimed Wednesday that Obama was the “founder of ISIS” during a rally, then doubled down on Thursday when asked by conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt to clarify that statement. He tweeted after Trump’s national convention speech that he would “always defend liberty against fear-mongering politicians”.
Former Democratic State Rep. and Clinton administration official Riccia McMahon of Newbury said members of both political parties suspect Trump is concealing something.
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 US troops from Iraq in 2011.
Yet the truth is that Clinton’s just-released 2015 return is fully open to being audited.
Clinton, who has her own controversies to deal with, is trying to push “Family First” economics and contrast it with Trump’s “America First” theme.
Donald Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, says the Republican presidential candidate will offer “real specifics” this week on how make the country safer.
Trump has refused to make his filings public, saying they’re under audit by the Internal Revenue Service and he’ll release them only once that review is complete. “But I promise you, when my forms are filed and when my tax returns are released, it’s going to be a quick read”.
Trump scheduled a speech in Warren, Ohio, on Monday that will focus on how he would handle the threat posed by Islamic State.
“They had eight states”. How to fix the daily cuppa of secret brew for the two aspiring occupants of the White House who call each other “nuts” “unfit” to be their new masters?
But Trump senior communications adviser Jason Miller said people would rather see the deleted emails from Mrs Clinton’s private server.
He trails Clinton in opinion polls ahead of the November 8 election.
However, some Republicans are criticizing Clinton’s remarks and calling his words “spin”.
Almost one-fifth of registered Republicans now want Trump to drop out of the race for the White House, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.
More than 200 current and former Republican elected and administration officials, as well as figures from the party apparatus and the conservative media, have said in recent weeks that they simply can not support Trump, citing his increasingly erratic statements, his lack of policy specifics and his recklessness on the worldwide stage, with many of them saying they’d vote for Hillary Clinton instead.
Trump does tout how he is closing the “carried interest” loophole that Wall Street hedge fund managers use to reduce their taxes, but it is not clear that their taxes will in fact go up at all.
Trump was scheduled to hold rallies in Erie and Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Friday. Now, while that was clearly over the top, the fact is that she was the secretary of state at the time that the Obama administration pulled all US troops out of Iraq.
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CT has not been in Republican hands since George H.W. Bush won the state in 1988. That launched her into a discussion of the Status of Forces Agreement.
