Trump repeatedly accuses Obama of founding Daesh
Vice President Joe Biden declared Monday that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s claim that President Barack Obama founded the Islamic State terrorist group directly jeopardized the safety of USA troops in Iraq.
Donald Trump is defending his decision to label President Barack Obama the “founder” of the Islamic State group.
Trump had told a crowd attending a rally in Miami, Florida that Obama was “the founder of ISIS” – a claim, which he later also repeated in the city of Kissimmee, also in Florida.
“Last night, you said the President was the founder of ISIS”.
Trump’s “line that Obama founded ISIS echoes exactly a myth propagated by Russian state-controlled media and bloggers”, McFaul said.
He then said that the “co-founder” of ISIS was Clinton.
Trump intensified the effort to connect Obama with Islamic State on Thursday morning, as conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt offered the Republican candidate a chance to backtrack.
Trump will argue that he isn’t being literal when he suggests Obama and Clinton created the Islamic State, but the point is, much like his controversial “Second Amendment people” comments made in reference to his opponent, many of his supporters won’t parse through whatever nuance he insists he’s imbued in them. “I have to be honest”, Trump said during an August 1 rally in Ohio.
Hewitt pushed back again, saying that Obama is “not sympathetic” to ISIS and “hates” and is “trying to kill them”.
Ret. Maj. Gen James “Spider” Marks said Thursday that Hillary Clinton will do a better job defending the country and the Constitution than Donald Trump. “He was the founder. His. the way he got out of Iraq was that – that was the founding of ISIS, OK?” “But I’ll tell you what, that will be a disgusting day”.
“I gave them co-founder, if you really looked at the speech. And the something else in mind, you know, people can’t believe it”, Trump said on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends”.
It wasn’t the first Trump has made similar comments – but they’ve mostly been directed at Clinton.
“It’s not what I’m looking to do – I think we’re going to have a victory but we’ll see”, he said. “I’m a fair trader”, Trump said. I know what you meant. But we shouldn’t have been in Iraq.
‘We unleashed fury all over the Middle East and it was a bad mistake, and then Obama came in, ‘ he said.
A source close to the Democratic presidential nominee says she will release them in “the coming days”.