Trump had previously said Clinton founded the militant group, but shifted the blame to Obama on Wednesday during a rally in Florida.
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“I meant he’s (Obama) the founder of ISIS. I do”.
“He gets the most valuable player award”. Now, Trump’s trying to claim his ISIS mistake was sarcasm, but does he know what sarcasm is? National security experts have said the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq in 2011 made it easier for ISIS-then known in Iraq as Al Qaeda, which experts say first started in 2003, before the USA invasion of Iraq, which Trump supported-to gain power in the region.
Mr. Trump, in an early-morning post on Twitter, blamed CNN for reporting “so seriously” that he had called Obama and Democrat Hillary Clinton the extremist group’s founder and most valuable player.
Recent statements from Trump, including saying President Obama was the founder of ISIS, suggesting that second amendment rights people could somehow take care of Hillary Clinton, and Trump’s fight with a Gold Star family have not helped, say Greenberg. “When will the dishonest media report the facts!” he said.
“Every word that comes out of a president’s mouth is examined”.
Trump has refused to make his filings public, saying theyre under audit by the Internal Revenue Service and hell release them only once that review is complete. “Donald Trump is going to make so many visits to Florida, I think the press will get exhausted of covering it because here’s the deal, ‘We have to win Florida, right?’ I’d expected that he would be here at least once every two weeks and maybe even once a week between now and the election”, said Gruters.
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. As Trump repeated the claim more than a dozen times, interviewers sought to ensure Trump wasnt being misconstrued. Bernie Sanders said she suffers from bad judgement.
Rothkopf said criticism of Obama’s foreign policy is entirely fair game this presidential campaign season.
On Friday, Trump did a 180 and tweeted that his ISIS comments were made in jest.
Ryan Williams, a Republican strategist who advised Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign, said there’s a common-sense playbook for dealing with political slip-ups: “Stop the bleeding and put it behind you by apologizing”. But asked about that specifically on Thursday, Trump seemed to go further.
The Republican presidential nominee is straying from his signature bravado as he campaigns in the battleground state of Florida.
That pledge was organized by the Republican National Committee, whose chairman, Reince Priebus, was attending the rally in Erie, Pennsylvania. In 2014, Trump speculated the Obama-ISIS connection runs through yet another focal point of Republican obsession: the 2012 attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
But many analysts argue its roots lie in the decision of George W Bush’s Republican administration to invade Iraq in 2003 without a plan to fill the vacuum created by Saddam Hussein’s ouster.
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When he called on Russian Federation to hack into Hillary Clinton’s emails and publish them, he shrugged off charges that he was inviting a hostile foreign government to intervene in the American election by insisting he was only being “sarcastic”.
