“I know what you meant”, Hewitt said.
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“No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS”, Trump reiterated. “THEY DON’T GET SARCASM?” he tweeted.
But the “sort of” apology didn’t last long with Trump again launching into President Obama, labelling him “so bad”.
The Trump campaign official called on the State Department to release a list of individuals who had obtained visas to the U.S. since 2001 who have since “been charged, implicated or accused of terrorism” in order to determine which countries should be banned.
The New York Times on Sunday catalogued a culture of crisis inside the Trump campaign.
Bill Clinton has said it was a mistake for Hillary Clinton to use a personal email server while secretary of state even though her predecessors and her successor did the same.
He trails Clinton in opinion polls ahead of the November 8 election.
Trump’s speech will come as his campaign has faced sagging poll numbers in key swing states in recent weeks, as he has swung from one controversy to the next, CNN added. But Trump initially doubled down on this remarks, repeating the claim several times without any sense he was joking.
And when pressed to clarify in interviews Thursday, Trump insisted he had said what he meant.
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.
Some of Trump’s former rivals, including Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Jeb Bush, have declined to endorse Trump.
Donald Trump’s campaign has faced challeges of late.
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.
He also earned more than $17 million over the same period for consulting work for Laureate Education, Inc., another for-profit education system based in Baltimore that makes most of its profits from overseas operations.
Donald Trump can’t resist an applause line, and when the crowd applauded for his repetition of the lie that Obama founded ISIS, he had to walk it back. “I’m embarrassed for conservatives that allow Hillary Clinton to become president”.
LIASSON: The race is leaning to Hillary Clinton right now.
Donald Trump is a hard presidential candidate for the media to cover because, at bottom, he has no idea what he’s talking about and doesn’t care.
But one perennial campaign element is missing this year: the public release of the Republican nominee’s tax returns.
But Trump has cited an audit by the Internal Revenue Service in refusing to release his returns. It is also reportedly fighting against ISIS.
“Your move”, Clinton campaign aide Ian Sams said on Twitter, linking to the Democratic nominee’s returns.
“He’s got to wrestle in his own heart, how does he communicate who he is, what he believes, the change he thinks he can bring to America, why what he’s doing is fulfilling the desires of the American people”, Sessions said on ABC’s “This Week”.
Clinton has pounced on the issue, releasing an online video on Friday highlighting high-profile Republicans urging Trump to release his taxes. Trump and Clinton gave duelling economic speeches in MI this week.
“The only people who want the tax returns are the people who want to defeat him”, the Post quotes Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort as saying in May.
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Obama did not found ISIS. Clinton has refused to release the transcripts of those speeches. We have shrunk the area of ISIS in Iraq by 40 percent. Their 2015 filings show an income of $10.6 million, far less than the $28 million reported in 2014.
