Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called US President Barack Obama and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton “co-founders” of Islamic State on Thursday, igniting fresh criticism of his inflammatory campaign style.
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Donald Trump is defending his decision to label President Barack Obama the “founder” of the Islamic State group.
But the liberal watchdog group Media Matters contends the interview is part of a troubling pattern in which conservative hosts are serving as self-appointed “coaches” for Trump and his campaign.
Clinton’s White House campaign hit back at the sensational remarks, branding them a “false claim”. It’s an instinct that Trump’s opponents say a president can’t possess.
After musing about an assassination of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump is insistently using new irresponsibly toxic rhetoric on the campaign trail.
Corker also condemned Trump’s comment that gun rights supporters could do something about Clinton if she’s elected and tries to appoint judges who favor gun control. A new poll showed Trump, whose unfiltered speaking style has repeatedly landed him in hot water, losing ground in three crucial states ahead of the November 8 general election against Clinton. Republicans frequently trace the birth of Islamic State to the Obama administration’s decision to withdraw the last USA forces from Iraq by the end of 2011.
Trump has blamed Obama’s decision to pull US forces from Iraq in 2011 for destabilizing the Middle East and creating a situation in which Islamic State militants could thrive.
Trump has blamed the US news media for taking many of his comments out of context, and on Thursday night, some of his supporters heckled and cursed reporters who covered his rally in a large arena in nearby Kissimmee.
Clinton blasted Trump’s claims, contending that “anyone willing to sink so low, so often should never be allowed to serve as our commander-in-chief”.
It called for an “immediate shift” of party funding Senate and House races, to aid down-ballot Republicans whose own election prospects have been harmed by Trump’s unpopularity.
Trump claims the United States government “has unleashed ISIS”.
Thursday, the Governor stood by Trump for his comments about President Obama and Hillary Clinton – calling them the “founders of ISIS”. “I don’t think I’ve made too many errors”, he told CNBC.
America’s Republican presidential nominee has purposefully and defiantly named President Obama as founding ISIS, aided and abetted by Clinton.
Addressing supporters at a rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, he said the jihadist group is “honoring President Obama”.
“If we had bullets going the other direction, No. 1, they probably would not have come in”, Trump said.
“Is there something wrong with saying that?” “I said Obama is the founder of ISIS”. “Look, all I do is tell the truth. You meant that he created the vacuum; he lost the peace”, Hugh Hewitt said on his radio show.
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Throughout his speech, Trump used graphs and pictures meant to portray what he said was a bad state of affairs in the American economy. “Because without him you wouldn’t have the threat, the disgusting situation going on around the world with ISIS”, Trump told Fox News a day earlier.
