With rare humility, Trump concedes he could come up short

In response to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s accusation that Democrat President Barack Obama and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton were “co-founders” of Islamic State, Clinton’s campaign called the remarks a “false claim”.

At a rally Wednesday, Trump said that Obama “is the founder of ISIS”, using one acronym for the group.

In this case he targeted CNN, although his comments on the jihadist group and the president were picked up across the news spectrum. Because it seems like a working knowledge of how sarcasm truly operates would be a helpful skill for a world leader to have, and that at this point, Trump doesn’t possess it.

Trump used the unfounded description on Wednesday night and all day on Thursday during campaign appearances in Florida. “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”.

Clinton all but called Trump an ISIS recruiter during a CNN interview back in May while responding to his call to temporarily ban Muslim immigration to the United States.

The poll found Clinton widening her lead in Colorado, Virginia and North Carolina, while holding her advantage over Trump in Florida.

Newly released polls show Clinton leading Trump in the state.

Trump is in the process of refocusing his campaign amid declining poll numbers.

Like a small child who has discovered a new word – or a salesman who has run out of new things to say – Trump was too delighted by the phrase to stop repeating it in his rambling rap – at least a half-dozen times.

Trump’s critics, including 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and other fellow Republicans, have said his refusal raises questions about his net worth, his charitable contributions, his business dealings and various other ties, including with Russian Federation. He’s the founder.” This is obviously not true, and on Thursday, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt gave Trump the chance to expand on that statement: “I know what you meant.

“What concerns me is that followers, supporters listen, and they can take a statement like that and do something unsafe with that”, Zelizer said.

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.

Trump then went on a rant about the media being the lowest form of humanity.

Clinton released her tax returns on Friday, painting the move as a sign of transparency that her campaign says Trump lacks.

The post was a reversal from just a day ago, when Trump said in a number of interviews that he was indeed serious about the charge. In fact, Clinton’s scandals would be getting a lot more attention, rightly or wrongly, if Trump didn’t keep stealing the spotlight. The filing shows that the Clintons earned $10.6 million and paid a federal tax rate of 34.2 percent past year.

“In that context, it’s hard to just say, ‘well, this was simply a sarcastic remark that should be forgiven, ‘” Zelizer said. On Thursday, she raised the issue during an economic speech in MI. Her campaign is also releasing returns from running mate Tim Kaine and his wife. The group rebranded after his death, becoming ISIS, and under the guidance of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has capitalized on a series of missteps by both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations – along with a civil war in Syria and Iraqi government failures – to create a new global terror state.