Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence attempted to clarify Trump’s comments during a subsequent interview on Fox News. He’s the¯/_ (ツ) _/¯ candidate, the avatar of the faction of the right that loves fake viral stories about Marines attacking atheist college professors. The headline is one word: Meltdown. Last week, an economic policy speech he delivered calling for lower corporate taxes and rolling back federal regulations was overshadowed by a series of provocative statements, including falsely declaring that Obama was the “founder” of the Islamic State group.
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“No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS”. Then, a couple of days later, he created another firestorm by declaring that President Obama was literally the “founder” of ISIS and had earned ISIS’s “most valuable player award”. They gave more than $1,042,000 to charity, with $1 million going to the Clinton family foundation.
Hewitt responded: “But he’s not sympathetic to them. He hates them. He’s trying to kill them”. Trump replied, “I don’t care”.
Donald Trump has found at least one supporter for his allegation that the U.S. administration founded Isis. He said he understands that “people in the establishment” may have “anxiety about the clear-eyed leadership” Trump will bring. The circle of life!
In the 2012 presidential election, President Barack Obama pulled in 89 percent of the New York Latino vote and 95 percent of the state’s Democrats, according to New York Times exit polls.
“Because without him you wouldn’t have the threat, the frightful situation going on around the world with ISIS”, Trump told Fox News a day earlier. By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. This is a strong, powerful movement, the Second Amendment.
It’s been one potentially disastrous comment after another from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump – but you wouldn’t know it watching his running mate. That will be a terrible day.
Evan McMullin, the Republican now mounting an independent run, is a constant reminder that had the GOP nominated someone bright, informed and not insane, Hillary Clinton would not be measuring the drapes for the Oval Office.
To briefly recap, the Republican nominee told a Florida audience mid-week that he believes President Obama is the “founder” of ISIS. But wait, maybe the “Second Amendment people” can do something.
The Republican is a proponent of free trade, something Trump has been strongly against throughout his candidacy.
But while Pence is more on-message, few voters are around to see it. Pence attracted crowds of less than 300 last week at stops in Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, compared to the thousands who show up to see Trump daily. Asked specifically about USA citizens, Trump said he didn’t like that President Barack Obama and others wanted to try them in traditional courts rather than military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. But now he’s here and doesn’t know what to do, so he does what comes instinctively-he keeps talking.
Yet the truth is that Clinton’s just-released 2015 return is fully open to being audited. “And the reason he calls it ISIL is he likes to bother everybody”, Trump told a Miami NBC affiliate on Thursday. You can also purchase a subscription and have full access to the site. Not ever. You will recall that this was supposed to be the week when Trump turned to the economy.
Trump can’t be reduced to the sum of the things he says. His selection as Trump’s running mate plucked him away from a hard re-election he had no assurance of winning. The language of politics is cautious, precise, and neutered, full of jargon and technicalities.
His habits of obfuscation, contradiction, and outright lying are not endearing to most undecided voters.
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In Colorado, Clinton leads Trump by a whopping 14 points, while in Virginia Trump is trailing behind by 13 percentage points, said a new poll by Wall Street Journal/NBC News/ Marist.
