The GOP presidential nominee blasted the media early Friday for allegedly misunderstanding the sarcasm in his assertion that President Obama founded ISIS – and just hours after he claimed he really meant what he said.
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In a rare show of humility by the boastful billionaire, Donald Trump is acknowledging that his presidential campaign faces challenges and could ultimately fall short.
“Isis is honoring President Obama”, Trump said of Islamic State. “No, Barack Obama is not the founder of ISIS”.
“I call president Obama the founders of ISIS”.
Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on “New Day” on Friday that his boss would have to speak for himself on the issue of Obama and ISIS, but decried the media for over-analyzing Trump’s words.
Donald Trump goes on to suggest that his campaign rally supporter’s reaction to his branding Obama and Hillary founders of ISIS means that the response is positive.
Hillary Clinton’s White House campaign also termed Trump’s remarks a “false claim”.
Trump first made the comments about Obama founding ISIS in a Wednesday speech, referring to president by including his middle name, “Barack Hussein Obama”.
“No. I meant he’s the founder of ISIS…”
Trump raised eyebrows when he made that claim and gave many details of what he said he saw in the film. “Therefore, he was the founder of ISIS”.
“Absolutely the founder. In fact, he gets the most valuable player award”.
This morning, the world was greeting with the following tweet from Donald Trump.
Donald Trump once again pushed the latest Hillary Clinton email story to the back of the internet as he rewrote history.
This seemed like a by-now-familiar example of Trump being hyperbolic, taking a rhetorical point to its extreme. Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt told him: “I know what you meant – you meant that he created the vacuum, he lost the peace”. Clinton’s lead over Trump in national polls has widened in recent days, while a growing number of fellow Republicans have declared they won’t support their own party’s nominee. “He hates them. He’s trying to kill them”.
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He appeared to be mimicking the argument that the USA troop withdrawal from Iraq under Obama, with Clinton serving as secretary of state, created a vacuum that allowed the Islamic State group to emerge and flourish in Iraq and Syria. Because Trump did not merely say that Obama was responsible for the military vacuum that allowed ISIS to form.
