Donald Trump backtracked Friday, August 12, from his assertion that President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton founded the Islamic State group (IS, formerly known as ISIS or the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq), saying he was just being sarcastic. “THEY DON’T GET SARCASM?”, Trump wrote in a tweet. He also decried media for over-analyzing trump words.
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Donald campaign officials said that Donald is going to give a speech on radical Islamic terrorism on Monday. Told that Obama was trying to defeat the militants, Trump added, “I don’t care”.
The latest controversy comes after Mr Trump faced a backlash after hinting that gun rights supporters might attack Ms Clinton, something that seemed to cause genuine shock in a country that has grown used to Mr Trump pushing the boundaries of appropriate political discourse.
Cuomo stressed that Trump has open invitation to appear on CNN and explain.
On CNBC on Thursday morning, Trump didn’t exactly embrace that idea. “What happens when he presses the nuclear button and then the next day says, “Oh, I’m sorry, I was just being sarcastic”?”
Carson endorsed Trump after ending his own GOP presidential bid.
“One of the things that’s frustrating about his candidacy is the imprecise language”, Gingrich said on “Fox and Friends”. “He sometimes uses three words when he needs 10”.
“No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS. I do”.
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“It was a style that none of his Republican opponents could cope with”, Gingrich said. In July, Trump said “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”. “He’s the founder of Isis”. When the conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt tried to help Trump soften the remark by reminding him that Obama wants to destroy ISIS, the Republican presidential nominee would not have it. He’s the founder of ISIS, OK? “He was the most valuable player”. What’s perhaps most freaky about this is that if you talk to Trump voters, the thing they often claim to like about him best is that he’s authentic and that he tells it like it is. Trump has said he would “knock the hell out of ISIS”, without offering details, and would persuade Gulf states to bankroll safe zones for Syrian refugees so they would not have to be brought to the United States.
“But he’s not sympathetic to them”. He mocked the “poor, pathetic” television pundits who try to figure him out and said, “They can’t!”
Trump says he won’t release them until Internal Revenue Service completes audits of his returns. “He was the founder”. “He is the founder of ISIS”. “Although the Second Amendment people – maybe there is, I don’t know”. This group would eventually become what we know today as the “Islamic State”, or ISIS.
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Politico has reported that Trump paid zero to very little taxes for two years in the 1990s, and a New York Times business columnist on Friday quoted a number of tax lawyers and accountants saying that could still be the case.
