National security official states support for Clinton over Trump

Here’s the quote, from the New York Times: “He’s the founder of ISIS”.

Hillary Clinton admonished Donald Trump on Thursday for claiming she and President Barack Obama were the founders of the Islamic State group, as the White House rivals also clashed on plans to improve the USA economy. “Or it’s going to be taken away from us”.

Trump first made the assertion in a speech Wednesday night in Florida. He repeated it in an interview Thursday morning with CNBC.

Relatives of Republican president Ronald Reagan, who was shot and wounded in 1981, and slain civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr also condemned Mr Trump for his gun remarks.

“Trump’s divisive and unsafe actions are not only a threat to our other candidates, but to our party and the nation”, the letter stated. An average of polls by RealClearPolitics has Clinton 7.7 percentage points ahead, at 48 per cent to his 40.3 per cent.

“No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS”. And so was she.

“And in the end it is either going to work or I am going to, you know, have a very, very nice, long vacation”, Trump said. ‘He shouldn’t have gotten out the way he got out. The United States pulled out combat troops in 2011.

Trump has previously criticised Clinton for supporting the Iraq War in 2003 while she was a U.S. senator.

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

‘FYI – US-backed militias retook ISIS’s stronghold in Libya today thanks to Obama-authorised air strikes, ‘ he said in a tweet.

Trump did not back down, asking on CNBC: ‘Is there something wrong with saying that?

Speaking at a rally in Florida Wednesday and at later appearances, Trump, in effect, accused Obama and Clinton of treason by labeling the President as the “founder of ISIS” and Clinton as the murderous terror group’s most valuable player.

“I don’t care”, Mr. Trump said.

“There is no question that the failed leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the foreign stage created the vacuum in the wider Middle East in which ISIS was able to spawn and grow”, Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence replied.

“It is helpful – at least to the rest of the ticket – that he is focusing a little more on Clinton than on other Republicans, whether defeated primary opponents or other elected officials who are on the ballot, for a change”, said former New Hampshire Republican Chairman Fergus Cullen, who is not supporting Trump. Many see the NY real estate mogul as spending too much time fighting within his own party and have called on him to refocus his campaign message on Clinton. “Three days later, she gets up and she does another one and goes back home and goes to sleep”.

Donald Trump offered a fatalistic assessment of his personal and political future on Thursday, saying he will not abandon the controversial style that fueled his ascent despite lagging poll numbers and a string of damaging controversies.