It’s an instinct that Trump’s opponents say a president can’t possess.
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“Once again, he’s echoing the talking points of Putin and our adversaries to attack American leaders and American interests”, Sullivan said. It was Trump’s latest move to aggressively enforce terms of a nondisclosure agreement that he requires almost every employee in his businesses and campaign to sign.
On Wednesday, Donald Trump said President Obama was the “founder of ISIS”.
Trump’s comments were first seen by many as figurative, accusing Obama of creating conditions that allowed IS to thrive. “Obama and Hillary are the founders ISIS”.
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Just a few hours later, Hillary Clinton criticized Donald Trump’s temperament, he responded in kind.
“But tomorrow, or later today, he could blame (Republican Senator) Jeff Flake for A-Rod’s retirement”, Cullen said, referring to Yankees player Alex Rodriguez’s decision to leave professional baseball.
“I don’t care”, Trump replied. His, the way he got out of Iraq was that that was the founding of ISIS, okay? Trump has blown by that, possibly because in 2007, during the administration of George W. Bush, he described the Iraq War as a “disaster” and urged Bush to simply declare victory and pull out.
Obama, whom ISIS portrays as a top enemy.
Could the Obama administration have fought harder to retain a USA troop presence in Iraq?
Pressed on whether he would be willing to repeat Trump’s “founder” claim himself, Pence deflected and repeated his defense of Trump’s wording.
“He was the founder of ISIS, absolutely”, Trump said of Obama during an interview Thursday with CNBC. “He was the most valuable player”, Trump said, using an acronym for the militant Islamist group, adding Clinton also deserved the award.
“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.
While some who have studied ISIS extensively agree that Obama’s policies in Iraq and Syria worsened an already chaotic situation, there was near unanimous agreement that the 2003 invasion of Iraq most directly triggered the rise of ISIS.
Trump first made the assertion in a speech on Wednesday night in Florida, saying, “I call them co-founders” of Islamic State.
Mr Trump has struggled to right his campaign following two weeks of stumbles, sliding poll numbers and rejection by a series of fellow Republicans.
Trump was “being very serious”, but Trump never said that the president “personally went to the Middle East and filled out the paperwork that incorporated ISIS”.
“They knew I was being sarcastic”, he told the crowd. “You meant that (Obama) created the vacuum, he lost the peace”.
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“The answer is to finally make trade work for us, not against us so my message to every worker in MI and across America is this: I will stop any trade deal that kills jobs or holds down wages, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership”, said Clinton.
