On Friday, Trump tweeted that his claim that President Barack Obama founded ISIS, with Hillary Clinton as co-founder, was “sarcasm”. Even the latest poll by the right-leaning Fox News network showed her with a substantial 10-point lead – 49 to 39 per cent – over Mr Trump.
Advertisement
It’s a claim that Trump repeated at least a dozen times in three cities since debuting the attack-line Wednesday during a rally outside Fort Lauderdale.
“I meant he’s (Obama) the founder of ISIS. I do”. “Hours after stating his claim of Obama as the founder of ISIL was “sarcasm”, Trump says maybe it wasn’t” is the subheader.
However, he recommended against prosecuting Clinton or her aides for their “extremely careless” handling of classified information on the private email server that she used as secretary of state.
Such states are hotly contested because their populations can swing either to Republicans or Democrats and thus play a decisive role in presidential elections.
Then there was Trump appearing to ask Russian Federation to hack Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s email.
Also on Friday, Trump said he enjoys watching members of the media – whom he calls dishonest and incompetent daily – try to “figure him out”.
Clinton meanwhile has released her tax returns, piling more pressure on her billionaire rival to do the same.
Mrs. Clinton focused much of her time speaking in Warren, Michigan on Donald Trump’s economic proposals, which she said would “work for him and his friends, at the expense of everyone else”.
Trump, a NY businessman who has never held elected office, has been mired in repeated controversies in recent days.
“Hillary Clinton wants to tax and regulate our economy to death”.
Trump holds just a 4-point edge over Clinton among male voters in New Hampshire.
Trump insisted over and over Thursday that he had meant literally that Obama founded the terrorist organization.
Almost one-fifth of registered Republicans now want Trump to drop out of the race for the White House, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.
That is especially so against the backdrop of Trump’s repeated accusations that Obama and Clinton have been soft on terrorism, his allegations of an “almost criminal” conspiracy that allowed Americans to die at the USA consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and the “lock her up” chants heard about Clinton at many Trump rallies, Zelizer said.
Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, on Sunday blamed news organizations for the GOP nominee’s hard week, saying the press focused on a pair of Trump comments for days rather than doing more stories about the economic plan Trump announced.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus had privately expressed frustrations at Trump’s delay in endorsing House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan in his primary contest for re-election.
“Trump still needs to unify Republicans and better position himself among traditional GOP groups in order to make the contest competitive in these must-win states”, Lee was quoted as saying by The Wall Street Journal. I’m going to a fundraiser for the Republican Party. We shouldn’t have been in Iraq but we shouldn’t have gotten out the way we got out.
Advertisement
The first is that Trump agrees with Hewitt substantively, that his argument is the same as Hewitt’s, and that his only disagreement with Hewitt is over whether he should call Obama the “founder”.
