When conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt suggested in an interview with Trump the next day that perhaps he meant Obama’s policies had allowed the group to flourish, Trump responded, “No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS. They are the founders”, Trump said at a National Association of Home Builders event in Miami Thursday morning. “THEY DON’T GET SARCASM?” he tweeted. He told FOX News last month that he was “being sarcastic” when, at a July 27 news conference, he appeared to call on Russian Federation to “find” Clinton’s deleted emails.
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Earlier this week at a rally, GOP nominee Donald Trump definitively declared that President Obama and Hillary Clinton were the co-founders of ISIS.
In 2003, with Republican President George W. Bush in charge, the United States led a multinational invasion of Iraq to unseat its president, Saddam Hussein, and uncover weapons of mass destruction.
“We’re so honored to be working with Donald Trump and the campaign”, Priebus told thousands of Trump supporters.
Trump tweeted Friday morning that the media was missing his sarcasm.
Late previous year, Putin said that al-Qaida and IS were “actually a US invention”.
Trump has cited an audit by the Internal Revenue Service in refusing to release his returns. But Trump’s provocative comment glosses over all of that nuance.
The candidate will give a speech Monday focusing on defeating “radical Islamic terrorism”, according to a Trump campaign official. “And regardless of whether the candidate on my side of the aisle says things that I disagree with or not, if you ask me, I’m going to share my disagreement on certain things and my agreement on certain things”. And what does the former New York City mayor suppose Trump really “meant” when he wondered elsewhere who the true perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks are?
Recent opinion polls have shown Trump losing ground to Clinton, a former USA senator and first lady, in the race for the November 8 election.
On Monday, 50 prominent Republican national security officials, including a former Central Intelligence Agency director, called Trump unqualified to lead the country and said he would be “the most reckless president in American history”.
Clinton’s White House campaign on Thursday called the remarks a “false claim”, in Clinton’s latest response to a series of attacks by Trump in which he has sought to portray America as less safe, blaming Democrats and depicting himself as the only one who can restore security.
It is possible to be outraged and to laugh at the same time-in the face of something like Trump, protecting our ability to laugh at him might actually be the only thing that keeps us from completely losing our heads. He plans to hold a second rally in Altoona, Pa., later Friday.
He appeared to be mimicking the argument that the USA troop withdrawal from Iraq under Obama, with Clinton serving as secretary of state, created a vacuum that allowed the Islamic State group to emerge and flourish in Iraq and Syria.
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As Hewitt suggested in the interview, it’s possible to argue that the administration’s withdrawing from Iraq, its lack of support to anti-Assad rebels in Syria and its decision to intervene in Libya enabled ISIS to expand.
