Hewitt was basically lobbing Trump softballs and allowing him to explain away the statements, but Trump insisted that they should be taken literally, adding that Obama and Clinton get the “most valuable player award” for their participation in global terror.
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“This destructive conspiracy theory has also been advanced by the Kremlin, and Donald Trump’s adoption of Russia’s talking points damages our country and makes the fight against ISIS more hard”, Schiff said.
He appeared to be mimicking the argument that the USA troop 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.
“With these false red lines in Syria that meant nothing”, Gorka said, “all the things were put in place by this administration to help this former al-Qaida franchise become a trans-regional insurgency”. Trump is encountering worrying signs as his campaign moves into the November election.
In a tweet last Friday, Trump said this is indeed what he saw. “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.
Obama, of course, did not found Islamic State.
Donald Trump is staying on message on President Obama, while also trying some humility on the campaign trail. “Yeah, he did. But Trump didn’t walk it back, which is why I think it’s so remarkably newsworthy”, he said.
But it was obviously important to Trump to keep the idea that Obama founded the terrorist organization in play.
In an interview with conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, Trump was asked to clarify the statement.
He said later he was being sarcastic. “A president who conducted himself the way Mr. Trump is conducting himself would throw our diplomacy and our foreign policy into absolute chaos”. After all much of the time Democrats have said the same things that Trump did.
Addressing supporters at a rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the real estate tycoon said the jihadist group is “honouring President Obama”.
Trump campaign officials were scheduled to meet with Republican National Committee officials in Orlando for what was described as a routine meeting to discuss operations in Florida, a battleground state that Trump needs to win.
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Republicans frequently trace the birth of Islamic State to the Obama administration’s decision to withdraw the last US forces from Iraq by the end of 2011.
