Trump, the Republican nominee for president, made the claims about Obama and Clinton, his Democratic rival, during a rally in Sunrise, Florida, Wednesday evening.
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The comments came one day after the GOP nominee hinted to supporters at another Florida rally that 2nd Amendment supporters could assassinate Clinton in order to stop her from restricting gun rights. Lauderdale, Florida, the real estate tycoon said the jihadist group is “honouring President Obama”.
President Barack Obama “is the founder” of the Islamic State, according to Donald Trump. He added, “I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton“.
For a long time, one of the many criticisms of President Obama is that he refuses to call various radical, ostensibly Muslim, groups “radical Islamic terrorists”.
“He’s the founder of ISIS“.
“ISIS is honoring President Obama”. “We unleashed bad fury all over the Middle East”.
“How many of you people know me?”
“Instead of allowing some small forces behind to maybe, just maybe, keep it under control, we pulled it out”.
And in June, Trump responded to the mass shooting of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando by saying the president “can’t even mention the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ There’s something going on”.
The Islamic State group began as Iraq’s local affiliate of Al Qaeda, the group that attacked the US on September 11, 2001.
The White House declined to comment on Mr Trump’s accusations.
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On Tuesday, Seddique Mateen, whose son Omar was the Orlando terrorist, was seated in almost the exact same spot behind Clinton at her rally in Kissimmee, Fla. “As the election heads into the fall and becomes a sprint to the finish, the media must provide the best and most fair coverage of both candidates”. Last week, he said that former Secretary of State Clinton’s weak policies were at the root of the birth of the terror organization and suggested she should “get a reward” for her role in its founding.
