Donald Trump’s claim Friday that he was merely being “sarcastic” in accusing President Barack Obama of establishing a terrorist group was his latest attempt to blame others for the uproar over what he says.
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When I said that Obama, and of course, I’m being sarcastic.
In this case he targeted CNN, although his comments on the jihadist group and the president were picked up across the news spectrum.
“We’re having a problem”, Mr Trump told the ministers, adding that the next US President could get to nominate up to five high court justices.
Trump used the unfounded description on Wednesday night and all day on Thursday during campaign appearances in Florida.
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.
The attempt at a clarification has raised numerous questions about the Republican nominee’s ability to verbally communicate with the American public, all the while putting his surrogates in the undesirable position of having to explain remarks he might not actually mean.
“I have been saying because it’s true, but somewhat sarcastically, that he’s the founder of ISIS and she’s a close second”, Trump said in Altoona. The concerns are compelling enough that dozens of anxious Republicans gathered signatures Thursday for a letter urging the GOP party chairman to stop helping Trump and focus on protecting vulnerable House and Senate candidates. This news story is related to Print/142155-Trump-says-comment-on-Obama-founding-IS-was-sarcasm/ – breaking news, latest news, pakistan ne.
Yet, even after his advisers suggested that he had achieved a new level of discipline in delivering his economic address Monday in Detroit, Trump insisted that he would not change his unusual ways.
“We’re so honored to be working with Donald Trump and the campaign”, Priebus told thousands of Trump supporters.
The IRS has said Trump can release his tax returns even while under audit.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to a group of pastors at the Orlando Convention Center.
“I know what you meant”.
“What’s remarkable about Trump’s comments is that once again, he’s echoing the talking points of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and our adversaries to attack American leaders and American interests, while failing to offer any serious plans to confront terrorism or make this country more secure”.
On Monday 50 prominent Republican national security officials, including a former Central Intelligence Agency director, called Trump unqualified to lead the country and said he would be “the most reckless president in American history”.
“They knew I was being sarcastic”, he told the crowd.
“It’s journalistic malpractice to lead your witness to give the desired response”, said Mark Feldstein, a journalism professor at the University of Maryland.
On Friday Hillary Clinton released her 2015 tax returns and renewed a challenge for Trump to do the same. Trump did endorse Ryan a few days later.
And in interviews he actually acknowledged the possibility that he could lose, a major concession for a man who promised “so much winning” that we would grow exhausted of all the winning. So what do you do with that, if you’re in the business of trying to figure Trump out, either as a member of the press or an interested voter? Her campaign is also releasing returns from running mate Tim Kaine and his wife.
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Trump has been mired in repeated controversies in recent days. He said Thursday that her speeches are short and then she goes back home to sleep.
