Dem Iraq vet: Trump has ‘no idea’ how to fight ISIS

“When Trump claims that America is the founder of ISIS, that’s something that ISIS uses against us, that’s something that ISIS uses to recruit fighters, recruit terrorists, to attack American troops”, Moulton said during his CNN appearance on Friday. “Obviously, I’m being sarcastic – but not that sarcastic, to be honest with you”.

The first was over his suggestion that gun rights’ advocates could take action against Hillary Clinton to prevent her from picking liberal Supreme Court Justices. “Now, they’re analyzing: ‘Did I really mean that?’ ‘How could I say that?'”

“I would say they could be tried there, that would be fine”, Trump told the Miami Herald. “I do”, Trump said. “I do. He was the most valuable player”.

Pressed again, she said, “He was being very serious”.

“They knew I was being sarcastic”, he told the crowd.

Instead of toning things down for a general election audience, Trump has taken an even more caustic tone in recent days as his poll numbers have continued to tumble.

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll shows Clinton widening her lead in four key swing states, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and Colorado, with double digit leads in Virginia and Colorado.

Also on Thursday, Trump said he could support the idea of trying American citizens accused of terrorism in military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay. But as he faces heightened scrutiny during the final months of the presidential campaign, Trump’s jokes have put his loyal allies in the uncomfortable position of having to publicly stand up for him no matter how provocative his remarks.

Hewitt noted that Obama has waged an effort against the Islamic State: “He’s not sympathetic to them”.

“It is true in a sense that before Obama, ISIS was an nearly unknown, small little organisation, he who called it the jayvee, totally wrong, and here’s why it happened, because he withdrew the troops from Iraq”, he continued.

On Sunday, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Trump’s running mate, defended the presidential candidate. “He was making a point that needs to be made, that there is no question that the failed policies of President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in the wider Middle East, created a vacuum within Iraq in which ISIS was able to arise”.

In battleground Pennsylvania, Trump again bashed the media for taking his comments out of context.

That was the second debate about a Trump comment this week.