Donald Trump Now Says His Claim That Obama Founded ISIS Was ‘Sarcasm’

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has appeared to have backtracked on his allegation that President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton founded the Islamic State group.

“No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS”, Trump said. “While I may disagree with Donald on many things, I disagree with Hillary on everything”. “THEY DON’T GET SARCASM?” he tweeted.

Trump, who has faced pushback this week after asserting that the president and former secretary of state played a role in creating the terror group, accused what he called “the dishonest media” of twisting his words.

In a surprise appearance, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus, who in private expressed fury over some of Trump’s actions this month, introduced the candidate at a campaign event in Erie, Pennsylvania, and the two hugged onstage.

“ISIS is honoring President Obama”.

“We should have never and I have been saying from the beginning we should have never got into Iraq”. He’s the founder of ISIS.

At a rally on August 10, Trump said that Obama “is the founder of ISIS“, using one acronym for the group. We don’t have to talk about how ISIS was formed because of her policies and Barack Obama’s policies of withdrawing and allowing that vacuum to form.

First up, Michael Cohen, the candidate’s special counsel and Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization not to be confused with the anti-Trump Boston Globe columnist of the same name.

The problem is, he repeated the claim numerous times, and even clarified his position, rejecting an offer by radio host Hugh Hewitt to dial back his comments. However, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called Trump’s comments “bizarre” at a news conference on Capitol Hill. “They might either not hear his follow-up or they might not believe that he means what he says when he says he’s being sarcastic”.

Trump supporter Newt Gingrich on Friday said that the GOP nominee has failed to understand the importance of being precise. Take a look at San Bernardino. “I go back to a very good way of life”. “Her weakness. Her weak policies”.

On Friday Hillary Clinton released her 2015 tax returns and renewed a challenge for Trump to do the same.

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On Monday 50 prominent Republican national security officials, including a former Central Intelligence Agency director, called Trump unqualified to lead the country and said he would be “the most reckless president in American history”.