Clinton’s campaign has cried foul and accused Trump of mimicking Russian President Vladimir Putin’s talking points, and the Democratic Party had asked for an apology.
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Donald Trump tripled down on the claim President Barack Obama, aided by Hillary Clinton, was the founder of ISIS, the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq. “I’ll never support Hillary Clinton”, he said.
Trump first made this assertion at a Florida rally on Wednesday and reiterated it in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday.
But Trump disagreed. “No, I meant that he’s the founder of Isis, I do”, he said. Its an instinct that Trumps opponents say a president cant possess. Trump tweeted early Friday morning.
It was the same tactic he used to try to quell the controversy after he invited Russian Federation in late July to dig up tens of thousands of “missing” emails from Clinton’s time as USA secretary of state.
“I call President Obama and Hillary Clinton the founders of ISIS – they’re the founders”, Trump told the National Association of Home Builders: “ISIS will hand [Clinton] the most valuable player award”.
“He’s sucking all the oxygen out of the room to his own detriment”, said Republican strategist and Trump supporter Ford O’Connell.
Such states are hotly contested because their populations can swing either to Republicans or Democrats and thus play a decisive role in presidential elections.
It’s comments like those that Clinton has seized to try to contrast her “serious, steady leadership” with the more volatile approach she says Trump would take to running the country.
Clinton’s advisers say they see little benefit in her going toe-to-toe with Trump over every personal accusation, generating sound bites that would dominate cable news broadcasts.
Trump has cited an audit by the Internal Revenue Service in refusing to release his returns. “They can’t!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
Trump scheduled a speech in Warren, Ohio, on Monday that will focus on how he would handle the threat posed by Islamic State. They created the Libyan vacuum, they created the vacuum into which ISIS came, but they didn’t create ISIS.
Nearly never does Trump admit error. In fact, I’d be sick at the thought that anything I said would persuade someone to vote for her.
He trails Clinton in opinion polls ahead of the November 8 election. When Clinton’s campaign cried foul, Trump blamed her for trying to “divert attention from the dishonest behavior of herself and her husband”. I know the media have had a great tendency to blow Trump’s comments out of proportion, and the dust-up about Megyn Kelly’s blood and the cruel comments about Muslim terrorists and Mexican rapists can, if we are pushed to the wall, be swallowed like bitter bile and then forgotten as we set our eyes on the prize.
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 the rally in a large arena in Kissimmee.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a chart as he speaks to the National Association of Home Builders, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, in Miami Beach, Fla. Trump did endorse Ryan a few days later.
Clinton, meanwhile, has been busy courting local media in must-win states. He also suggested the Mideast would be more stable were Saddam still in power. He was killed in Iraq in 2006 after the USA dropped two 500-pound bombs on him.
Trump can’t be reduced to the sum of the things he says.
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“But really bad judgement as said by Bernie Sanders, bad judgment is Hillary Clinton”.
