Before Thursday and Friday were dominated by talk about who founded ISIS – for the record, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi did – the Trump campaign spent Tuesday and Wednesday defending a remark many interpreted as a hint or joke about assassinating Clinton. The fact of the matter is that once Trump made a decision to run for president, he became a politician.
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“Normally you want to clean up; he made a bigger mess out of it”, Trump said.
In battleground Pennsylvania, Trump again bashed the media for taking his comments out of context.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) released a statement calling for an apology from Trump and suggesting that the candidate was “unraveling”.
Trump insisted on the word “founder”, insisting this was “no mistake” and Obama is the “co-founder” of ISIS.
Obama, of course, did not found Islamic State.
Trump said on July 27 that he hoped Russian Federation, which he said could have hacked the Democratic National Committee’s emails, had Clinton’s missing State Department emails as well ― and would release them.
“Trump’s divisive and risky actions are not only a threat to our other candidates, but to our party and the nation”, the letter stated. “I do”, Trump replied.
“You know how they get out?” “I’m putting up money from my own campaign, but I’m raising a lot of money for the Republican party”.
Some Republicans see a small silver lining in Trump talking more about Clinton. “I have been wrong so many times“.
Trump has previously criticized Clinton for supporting the Iraq War in 2003 while she was a USA senator.
TRUMP: You’re not, and let me ask you, do you not like that?
“Isis is honoring President Obama”, Trump said of Islamic State.
Under the Obama administration, the US military has actively fought against the terror network in Iraq and Syria.
“With his bad policies, that’s why ISIS came about”, Trump continued.
He criticised the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq that was completed under Mr Obama in 2011, claiming “he made a mess”.
“Anyone willing to sink so low, so often should never be allowed to serve as our Commander-in-Chief”, she added in another tweet. “He was the most valuable player”.
Presidential contender outwardly accuses President Obama of founding terrorist group. On CNBC on Thursday morning, though, he didn’t exactly embrace that idea.
In a radio interview later Thursday morning on the Hugh Hewitt Show, Trump would not back away from his “founder” line of attack against Obama even when offered an out by the host, who suggested to the Manhattan billionaire that “I know what you meant”. I’m a truth teller.
In the interview with Hewitt, Trump did acknowledge the root of his argument was that if Obama “had done things properly, you wouldn’t have had ISIS”.
“I give her, too, by the way, Hillary Clinton”, Trump said, later telling an NBC affiliate NJTV he “meant exactly that”.
This may be true, as Twitter users are cheering on Trump’s remarks.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Miami on July 27. “This is yet another out of control statement by a candidate who is unraveling before our very eyes”.
