Donald Trump says Barack Obama is the ‘founder of ISIS’

Trump had first claimed Obama was “the founder of Isis” on Wednesday night at a rally in Sunrise, Florida.

The White House declined to comment on Trump’s accusation.

GOP concerns about Trump are compelling enough that dozens of anxious Republicans were gathering signatures for a letter urging the party’s chairman to stop helping Trump and focus on protecting vulnerable House and Senate candidates, according to a draft obtained by the Associated Press.

Clinton spokesman Jesse Lehrich, in response to Trump’s initial remarks, pointed to US advances against the militant group in Libya this week.

Nick Merrill, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, said Mr Mateen was not invited as a guest and that officials were unaware of his presence until after the event.

“Look, all I do is tell the truth”.

Cuomo stressed that Trump has open invitation to appear on CNN and explain. But that is not what Trump said on Wednesday-and, much more importantly, also not what he wanted voters to hear, as the candidate himself has since made clear.

“In many respects, you know, they honour President Obama”, he insisted.

Mr Trump also blasted the president for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, claiming the retreat only served to create the kind of instability in which groups like IS have been able to thrive.

If we’re lucky, Trump might take a moment or two to clean up the ISIS-related mess he created last week.

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says President Barack Obama calls the Daesh terrorist group “ISIL” to annoy everyone.

“It was a style that none of his Republican opponents could cope with”, Gingrich said. I do”, Trump replied. “He was the most valuable player.

Trump did acknowledge that the root of his argument was that if Obama “had done things properly, you wouldn’t have had Isis”, but he repeated: “Therefore, he was the founder of Isis”.

Conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt gave Trump the opportunity to ease his way out of this nonsense by suggesting that Trump was referring to a notion that Obama’s Iraq policy somehow led to the formation of ISIS. “He’s the founder of ISIS”. “I do. He was the most valuable player. I give her, too, by the way, Hillary Clinton”.

Hewitt: But he’s not sympathetic to them. He hates them. He’s trying to kill them.

“That will certainly get Donald Trump’s attention”, he said. “He was the founder”.

Many Republicans argue that Obama and Clinton are responsible for the rise of ISIS because they followed through with the Bush administration plan to withdraw all USA troops from Iraq in 2011, and underestimated the threat from the “JV” team.

Even while acknowledging that he wasn’t being “that sarcastic” about the President’s role in the spread of ISIS, Trump continued to rail against the media as “the lowest form of humanity” because reporters have tried to dig in to the veracity and ramifications of his hyperbolic comment. But by using the term founder, they’re hitting with you on this again.

According to the NBC News|SurveyMonkey poll conducted in late June and early July of more than 1,700 registered voters, only 27 percent of Republicans agree with that Obama was born in the USA statement, while 41 percent disagree. He is the founder of ISIS, OK? “He’s the founder. He founded ISIS”.