Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the BB&T Center, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, in Sunrise, Fla.
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As a result, the media somehow feel obliged to report that Barack Obama, the President of the United States of America, is not the founder of ISIS, and Hillary Clinton, Democratic nominee for President, is not a co-founder of ISIS.
Despite months of insisting he’s a straight talker with “the best words”, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spent almost all week cleaning up the mess his own words created.
Trump went on to describe Hillary Clinton, his Democratic challenger, as the group’s “co-founder”.
When Hewitt said Democrats would seize on the “founder” comment to attack Trump’s foreign policy views, Trump repeated that he hadn’t erred.
“At the end, it’s either going to work or I’m going to, you know, I’m going to have a very, very nice long vacation”, he said.
Federal law generally prohibits US citizens from being prosecuted in military tribunals. “He was the founder”. “It is true in a sense that before Obama, [ISIL] was an nearly unknown, small little organization, he who called it the [junior varsity], totally wrong, and here’s why it happened, because he withdrew the troops from Iraq”.
Trump tweeted, blaming CNN for blowing the comments, which also included calling Hillary Clinton the “most valuable player”, out of proportion.
Party leaders urged Trump to focus on the campaign to beat Clinton after he drew strong criticism for a persistent confrontation with the family of Muslim American soldier who died in Iraq and for his initial refusal to support prominent Republican candidates in their primary races.
PRESIDENT-hopeful Donald Trump attempted to do away with the controversy surrounding his campaign on Friday by insisting he was not being serious when he insisted President Obama and Hillary Clinton “founded” ISIS. “Instead of allowing some small forces behind to maybe, just maybe, keep it under control, we pulled it out”, said Trump.”Then Obama came in, and normally you want to clean up and he made a bigger mess”. He’s the founder of ISIS.
“He is the founder of ISIS, OK? But he was the founder, absolutely the founder”, said Trump. In the first, he made a point of emphasizing Obama’s middle name, Hussein.
Hewitt attempted to follow up, saying that Obama is not sympathetic to ISIS and is trying to kill them.
Following June’s horrific nightclub shooting in Orlando, Trump had suggested that Obama had an ulterior motive. One exception came this month when he acknowledged a video he said showed a plane carrying US cash to Iran was actually a plane carrying USA hostages who were being released.
It was the second time in recent weeks that Trump has explained a controversial statement as sarcastic. “You have to understand that the news media is going to attack you every chance they get and it’s your job not to give them a chance”.
Clinton posted on social media website Twitter that Trump’s comments are disqualifying.
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“So many of his answers appear to be stream-of-consciousness responses, so slamming on the brakes as an interviewer and saying, “Well, you don’t really mean that literally” gives him a chance to either retract or “double down” as he did with the Islamic State claim, Sesno said.
