That it took Trump two days to walk back his widely debunked remark – and then walk back the walk-back – was worrying for Republicans who see such missteps as playing to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s advantage.
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Trump insists he was just being sarcastic and accused media of misconstruing what he said. Therefore, he made this statement. “They can’t!”, Trump tweeted.
Trump use Twitter for commenting from the first day, and he used to tweet one after one comment.
Yet even as he worked to quell one campaign controversy, Trump appeared to spark another late Wednesday when said he was “fine” with trying Americans suspected of terrorism in military tribunals at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Trump disagreed. “No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS”.
Gov. Mike Pence spoke with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday about a variety of topics, including Trump’s anticipated revelation on his plan for ISIS and new revelations that reveal a possible “pay-to-play” scandal involving the Clinton Foundation and Hillary’s Clinton’s State Department. Trump did endorse Ryan a few days later.
Media coverage is the positive reinforcement Trump lives for. But Trump initially doubled down on this remarks, repeating the claim several times without any sense he was joking.
No, I meant hes the founder of ISIS. “He’s the founder of ISIS”, he told the Miami NBC affiliate Thursday night when asked what he meant by the comment.
You have to, on some level, feel for Trump’s surrogates who were defending his ISIS founder comment Thursday.
ISIS, in fact, was founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as the Al Qaeda affiliate in Iraq (AQI). He’d added Clinton to the mix by noting her initial support for the Iraq War and her ties to Obama’s policies as his first-term secretary of state.
The Democratic National Committee has meanwhile called on the Republican candidate to “apologize for his outrageous, unhinged and patently false suggestions”, to which 70-year-old Trump replied that he had allegedly told the truth.
“But really bad judgement as said by Bernie Sanders, bad judgment is Hillary Clinton”.
The Washington Post led Monday’s newspaper with a tough look at her economic record as a USA senator from NY, finding that she failed to make good on a campaign promise to create 200,000 jobs upstate. If the cheering crowds at his hate-filled rallies are happy, Trump is happy. Trump’s response later? “Of course, I’m being sarcastic”.
“You mean that he created the vacuum, he lost the peace”, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt suggested to Trump on Thursday in an interview.
Republicans frequently trace the birth of Islamic State to the Obama administration’s decision to withdraw the last US forces from Iraq by the end of 2011.
Republicans frequently trace the birth of Islamic State to the Obama administration’s decision to withdraw the last U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of 2011.
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Meanwhile, Mr Trump has acknowledged that his presidential campaign faces challenges and could ultimately fall short. “What they want to do is try to fake it through”.
