I know what you meant. To Martha Raddatz who has covered Isis extensively and, of course, the race for president as well. Then again, Giuliani seems to think there are a lot of ISIS founders in the upper echelons of the Democratic Party. “His, the way he got out of Iraq was that that was the founding of ISIS, okay?”
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“He was the founder of ISIS, absolutely”, Trump said on the business network.
Trump asked the crowd.
Clinton posted on social media website Twitter that Trump’s comments are disqualifying. “Her only competition is Barack Obama, between the two of them”. “It was Hillary Clinton that – she should get an award from them as the founder of ISIS”.
Clinton’s campaign also tweeted Thursday afternoon: “No, Barack Obama is not the founder of ISIS”. “ISIS will hand her the most valuable player award”.
Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric is common on the campaign trail and usually a big hit with his supporters.
“If they gave a trophy for most valuable player, the victor of the trophy for ISIS would probably have to be Hillary Clinton”, he said.
Trump continued to repeat that Obama and Clinton were the founders of the terrorist organization at an event in Miami later Thursday.
Trump’s first claim is actually correct: America is responsible for bringing a staggering amount of chaos, death, and destruction to the Middle East through the Iraq War and other, discrete attacks on nearby nations. “I, you – we shouldn’t have gone in”.
“That mistake was made”.
Trump hit Obama for his decision to pull USA military forces from the Middle East, which he asserts left a vacuum for radical Islamists to fill. “Take a look at what’s going on, and then worldwide, and we let ISIS take this position”, he said.
Yet even as he worked to quell one campaign controversy, Trump appeared to spark another late Wednesday when said he was “fine” with trying Americans suspected of terrorism in military tribunals at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
Following June’s horrific nightclub shooting in Orlando, Trump had suggested that Obama had an ulterior motive.
Conspiracists have claimed the President was born in Kenya, when in fact Mr Obama, a Christian, was born in Hawaii. He said the USA was “keeping a lid” on the situation by being there, but that when the US leaves, “it’s all going to blow up” so the US might as well leave “because you just are wasting time”.
He said: “We should never have gotten out the way we got out”.
And just this Tuesday, the real estate mogul was widely criticized for suggesting that “Second Amendment people” might be able to stop Clinton from appointing judges.
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CNN’s Tal Kopan, Rachel Chason and Stephen Collinson contributed reporting to this story.
