Trump lobbed the allegation midway through his rally at a sports arena, where riled-up supporters shouted obscenities about Clinton and joined in unison to shout “lock her up”.
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Washington:Republican candidate Donald Trump roiled the USA presidential campaign once again, with the jaw-dropping assertion Wednesday that Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama “founded” the IS group.
It’s the latest instance of an emerging pattern with Trump: an inflammatory statement; an ensuing political controversy; silence from his campaign; then backtracking.
Some interpreted the remarks as a threat to Clinton.
Some Republicans see a small silver lining in Trump talking more about Clinton.
“People cannot believe, they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and he can’t even mention the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ There’s something going on”. In an unusually frank acknowledgement that he could lose the election, Trump said Thursday that his campaign needed “help” in pivotal states like OH and even faced a “tremendous problem” in Utah, normally a solid GOP state but a place where his crude image sits poorly with Mormon voters.
“I just do not think insults and bullying is how we are to get things done”, Clinton said as she laid out her economic plan Thursday in Warren, Michigan. “No differentiation on that”. The Republican presidential nominee brushed off conservative radio commentator Hugh Hewitt’s attempt to reframe Trump’s observation as one that said Obama’s foreign policy created the conditions in Iraq and Syria that allowed IS to thrive. “He’s the founder. He founded ISIS”.
Obama did not found ISIS. He is the founder.
He also said he considered Clinton, his Democratic rival for the presidency, to be the co-founder of the Islamic State group.
Hewitt asked Trump if he would acknowledge that Obama hates the Islamic State, noting that the president is “trying to kill them”. “Her only competition is Barack Obama, between the two of them”.
Recent opinion polls have shown Trump losing ground to Clinton, a former US senator and first lady, in the race for the November 8 election.
“The conflict in Syria created a ideal vacuum in terms of governance, and so the civil war became an opportunity for the restoration of the organization”, he told the Post. Trump also has said his taxes are no one’s business and that they reveal little. If she gets to pick her judges, there’s nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment people maybe there is, I don’t know.
“You know how they get out? What we’re doing right now isn’t working”.
But Trump stuck to his original statement.
He added, “I go back to a very good way of life”. The group began as Iraq’s local affiliate of al-Qaida, the group that attacked the US on September 11, 2001.
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Corker added that “every single place I went, that’s what I would talk about”.
