Donald Trump said Thursday that he meant exactly what he said when he called President Barack Obama the "founder of ISIS" and objected when a conservative radio show host tried to clarify the GOP nominee's position.
"No, I meant he's the founder of ISIS," Trump said. "I do. He was the most valuable player. I give him the most valuable player award. I give her, too, by the way, Hillary Clinton."
Hewitt pushed back again, saying that Obama is "not sympathetic" to ISIS and "hates" and is "trying to kill them."
"I don't care," Trump said, according to a show transcript. "He was the founder. His, the way he got out of Iraq was that that was the founding of ISIS, okay?"
Clinton later hit back on Thursday on Twitter, saying it was Trump who was unfit to be president.
"It can be difficult to muster outrage as frequently as Donald Trump should cause it, but his smear against President Obama requires it," Clinton tweeted. "No, Barack Obama is not the founder of ISIS. ... Anyone willing to sink so low, so often should never be allowed to serve as our Commander-in-Chief."
"Do you not like that?" Trump asked Hewitt.
"I think I would say they created, they lost the peace. They created the Libyan vacuum, they created the vacuum into which ISIS came, but they didn't create ISIS. That's what I would say," Hewitt said.
"Well, I disagree," Trump replied, and Hewitt moved on.
"This is another example of Donald Trump trash-talking the United States," Sullivan said. "It goes without saying that this is a false claim from a presidential candidate with an aversion to the truth and an unprecedented lack of knowledge. What's remarkable about Trump's comments is that once again, he's echoing the talking points of Putin and our adversaries to attack American leaders and American interests, while failing to offer any serious plans to confront terrorism or make this country more secure."
this will be the best election of our lives as an increasingly woke donald trump keeps saying things
aerdil posted:His, the way he got out of Iraq was that that was the founding of ISIS, okay?
With sophisticated liberal creeps like Obama or Clinton you at least get most things put on autopilot, where they'll hurt a lot of people but at least the risk is lower. That's a real trade off but it's a stupid one to embrace because the options aren't just Trump or Clinton.
Of course, getting politicians to promise nice things is very hard but it's just the beginning of the problem, because you have to imagine how they will react when the full weight of everything evil is arrayed against them, and unless they say "we will basically imprison the entire CIA" and you think they might have a chance at doing that, then they are just lying..
RBC posted:HOnestly people are just afraid to admit they like donald trump for fear of being called a racist.
epic callback. *stands up* just epic. *begins clapping* *smartphone in hand* *with unbelievably practiced precision is posting mid-clap about how epic, clap emoji mid-words* *two babes knock on your front door and once you answer it they immediately begin sucking you off*
