Trump first made the comment during a rally Wednesday in Florida and has repeated the assertion on several occasions since then.
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Trump continued to repeat that Obama and Clinton were the founders of the terrorist organization at an event in Miami later Thursday.
“No, Barack Obama is not the founder of ISIS”, she wrote.
“This is another example of Donald Trump trash-talking the United States”, Clinton’s senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement.
“And I mean, if it is true, that’s OK too because all I have to do is stop funding the Republican Party”.
Asked by a conservative radio host whether he meant that Obama had created the conditions that allowed IS to thrive, Trump answered, “No, I meant that he’s the founder of ISIS”.
“I would say they could be tried there”, Trump said, referring to Guantanamo Bay.
“ISIS will hand her the most valuable player award. I gave him the most valuable player award”, Trump told Hewitt.
The poll found Clinton widening her lead in Colorado, Virginia and North Carolina, while holding her advantage over Trump in Florida.
Hewitt: “But he’s not sympathetic to them”. Told that Obama was trying to defeat the militants, Trump added, “I don’t care”. He was the founder. They screwed everything up.
“In fact, in many respects, you know they honor president Obama”. 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.
“I think I’m not flawless”. “And I give it to him, and I give it to, I gave the co-founder to Hillary”. “I know what’s happening here, folks”.
HH: I don’t. I think I would say they created, they lost the peace.
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.
Trump responded: “Let it be inflammatory”.
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The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines sarcasm as “the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really want to say especially in order to insult someone, to show irritation, or to be amusing”.
