Wednesday night Trump continued on his trail of dubious remarks during a rally in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. where he claimed Barack Obama was the founder of ISIS. So, you know the other side isn’t completely innocent of throwing around ISIS accusations, but I think in this case, this accusation is far more accurate than Donald Trump being an ISIS propagandist. Continuing, Trump referred to Obama as the “founder of ISIS”, doubling double when he said “He founded ISIS”. “He’s the founder! He founded ISIS”. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian militant terrorist viewed as the founder of Isis, was killed in a United States airstrike in Baghdad in 2006. ISIS is honouring President Obama. The presidential nominee then accused his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, of being its co-founder.
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Let’s talk about what Donald Trump said.
This is just another example of Trump spiraling out control and losing the very small grip he previously had on a reality.
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the crowd at the South Carolina African American Chamber of Commerce in North Charleston, South Carolina, September 23, 2015.
The origins of Isis trace back to the aftermath of the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003. When U.S. administrators, under Paul Bremer, made a decision to “de-Baathify” the Iraqi civil and military services, hundreds of thousands of Sunnis formerly loyal to Saddam Hussein were left without a job – and they were mad.
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It’s obvious that he shouldn’t be commander-in-chief, but with repeated comments like this, it’s unclear if he even wants to be.
