Over the course of their careers the Clintons have published all of their tax returns since 1977.
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To that end, Clintons campaign on Friday intensified pressure on Trump to release his tax returns, while disclosing her 2015 filings and a decade of returns from her running mate. But no top Republican has gone so far as to accuse the president of founding the group.
The GOP letter to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus warns that Trump’s “divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide”, according to a draft obtained by The Associated Press.
Trump initially made the inflammatory comment during a Wednesday evening rally in Sunrise, Florida.
“But when Trump claims that America is the founder of ISIS, that’s something that ISIS uses against us, that’s something that ISIS uses to recruit fighters, recruit terrorists, to attack American troops”, Moulton continued. In true Trump fashion, he did it on Twitter while putting other people down. He is the founder of ISIS, OK?
But he didn’t stop there. “And speaking of that, remember this: We have so many things that we have to protect in this country”.
In a rally on Wednesday, Trump repeatedly said that Obama was the “founder” of Islamic State.
“He was the most valuable player – I gave him the most valuable player award”.
Her only competition is Barack Obama.
Ms Clinton has attacked Mr Trump for the remarks, writing on Twitter: “It can be hard to muster outrage as frequently as Donald Trump should cause it, but his smear against president Obama requires it”.
But many Republicans wonder what Trump is waiting for, since Clinton has used time and money to define herself, and more importantly, Trump, without much of a retort. On Thursday, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt practically begged him to narrow his definition.
“It goes without saying that this is a false claim from a presidential candidate with an aversion to the truth and an unprecedented lack of knowledge”, Jake Sullivan, the Clinton campaign’s senior policy adviser, said in a statement Thursday.
Trump insists he was just being sarcastic and accused media of misconstruing what he said. They created the Libyan vacuum, they created the vacuum into which ISIS came, but they didn’t create ISIS.
Presumably he was not being sarcastic, though at this point who can know for sure? And House Speaker Paul Ryan will be on a trip with his family.
He appeared to be mimicking the argument that the U.S. troop’s withdrawal from Iraq under Obama with Clinton serving as secretary of state created a vacuum that allowed the Islamic State group to emerge and flourish in Iraq and Syria. I do, Trump said, using one acronym for the group. And the exhausted, pedantic language Clinton uses is cringe-worthy.
By Friday morning, as the backlash to Trump’s comments was again threatening to knock out the potential to generate any positive news or electoral momentum, he began a familiar process – the walk-back. As we all know, the more time passes this year, the less likely such an outcome is.
Trump scheduled a speech in Warren, Ohio, on Monday that will focus on how he would handle the threat posed by Islamic State.
A new poll showed Trump, whose unfiltered speaking style has repeatedly landed him in hot water, losing ground in three crucial states ahead of the November 8 general election against Clinton.
“All I have to do is stop funding the Republican Party”, he said. “Look, he has been as a president a disaster bad judgment”, he said.
CRIMEA RIVER: Heads spun in the foreign policy world when Trump said this month that Russian Federation wouldn’t enter Ukraine, seemingly unaware it already had.
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Donald Trump isn’t anxious about a report that the Republican National Committee is considering moving resources away from his campaign and focusing on down-ballot candidates instead. They want to see his tax rate, charitable giving and business dealings with foreign governments.
