Trump brushes off as sarcasm his comments about Obama and Islamic State

A day after Donald Trump repeatedly called President Obama the “founder” of the Islamic State and labeled Hillary Clinton the terrorist group’s “co-founder”, he shifted his tone abruptly, insisting he was being sarcastic and blaming the news media for misrepresenting his comments. Recently, 50 Republicans wrote an open letter to the RNC saying you should cut off funding for the Trump campaign, focus on saving our House and Senate seats.

On Thursday, Trump’s special counsel, Michael Cohen, told CNN he would not allow Trump to release them until the audits are complete.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has a widening lead in swing states over Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, according to a NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released on Friday.

“Donald Trump was being sarcastic ‘but not that sarcastic” when he called President Barack Obama the “founder of ISIS”. Trump ignited a new round of criticism of his candidacy last week when he said, falsely, that Obama and Clinton created Islamic State.Trump, after repeating the claim, later said he meant the remark as sarcasm.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is introducing Donald Trump at a campaign rally in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.

At least one Democrat in Congress noticed that Trump had used anti-U.S. propaganda for two days, and suggested that even if Trump were joking, it is still a problem.

“Trump probably thinks that SOFA, the Status of Forces Agreement, is a gilded couch at Mar-a-Lago”.

Trump argued Friday that his MVP comments should have signaled that he was being sarcastic.

The attempt at a clarification has raised numerous questions about the Republican nominee’s ability to verbally communicate with the American public, all the while putting his surrogates in the undesirable position of having to explain remarks he might not actually mean.

Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence, in an interview taped on August 12 and broadcast Sunday on Fox News, said Trump hadn’t been joking.

It is customary for US presidential candidates to make their tax returns public, although they are not required by law to do so.

“But really bad judgement as said by Bernie Sanders, bad judgment is Hillary Clinton. When will the dishonest media report the facts!” he said.

Those concerns are compelling enough that dozens of anxious Republicans gathered signatures on Thursday for a letter urging the party chairman to stop helping Mr Trump and focus on protecting vulnerable House and Senate candidates.

In another, he said, “My rallies are not covered properly by the media.They never discuss the real message and never show crowd size or enthusiasm”.

Minutes after releasing her returns, Clinton tweeted that it’s possible Trump paid no tax at all.

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has gone after Clinton’s financial links to the Clinton Foundation with the candidate charging she is guilty of “pay for play”.

ABOUT SADDAM: In July, Trump said former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was “so good” at killing terrorists.