AP FACT CHECK: Trump wrongly calls Obama 'founder' of IS WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says President Barack Obama is the "founder" of the Islamic State group. He's not, of course. According to the GOP presidential nominee, Obama's decision to pull U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011 destabilized the Middle East and created a situation in which Islamic State militants could thrive. That's debatable, at least. But to state that "Barack Hussein Obama" — as Trump put it to highlight the president's middle name given to him by his Kenyan-born father — actively worked to create the terrorist group is simply not accurate. In fact, the United States is leading a coalition of some three dozen Western and Arab countries on a mission to destroy IS. Republicans argue his response has been tepid and incremental. Trump made his allegation at a rally in Florida and repeated it Thursday. A look at his statements: TRUMP: "He is the founder of ISIS," he said Wednesday night, using one acronym for Islamic State. On Thursday, he told CNBC: "He was the founder of ISIS, absolutely. The way he removed our troops. ... He shouldn't have got out the way he got out. It was a disaster what he did. " Asked by conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt if he meant that Obama's decision to remove U.S. troops from Iraq left a vacuum for IS to grow, Trump replied: "No, I meant that he's the founder of ISIS, I do." THE FACTS: The founder of the group was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qaida in Iraq who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in 2006. As for the manner of the U.S. withdrawal, Trump actually wanted U.S. troops out years earlier than Obama brought them out. He told CNN in March 2007 that the U.S. should declare victory and get out because Iraq was going to get further bogged down in civil strife. He said the U.S. was "keeping a lid" on the situation by being there, but that when the U.S. leaves, "it's all going to blow up" so the U.S. might as well leave "because you just are wasting time." TRUMP: "In many respects, you know, they (IS militants) honor President Obama." THE FACTS: To the contrary, IS propaganda has shown fighters shooting targets bearing Obama's image. IS has beheaded captives while slurring Obama's name and suggested prices for enslaving his wife. Before killing American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff in 2014, one IS militant said: "I'm back, Obama, and I'm back because of your arrogant foreign policy toward the Islamic State ... despite our serious warnings. So just as your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people." Trump is echoing conspiracy theorists across the Middle East, including Iran's supreme leader and those he backs, such as Syrian officials and Hezbollah, a Shiite militant group. They have all over time accused the U.S. of creating or supporting the extremist group responsible for mass killings, beheadings and other atrocities in Iraq and Syria, as well as inspiring militant attacks across the world. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ap-fact-check-trump-wrongly-211828549.html
Trump caught in multiple lies in deposition: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/trump-lies/
Trump's summer meltdown http://time.com/4447985/inside-donald-trump-meltdown/ http://time.com/4449116/donald-trump-rnc-funding-gop/ Egomaniacal nut case
Put the glass down. CNN is disputing the validity of Trump's claim, not that he didn't say it. He did say it. I heard it. Everyone heard it.
Why Trump is an evil bastard: http://www.theweek.com/articles/642393/donald-trump-knows-exactly-what-hes-doing
haha. You guys are not as dumb as I sometimes conclude..... Either way, bigmouthed Trump is going bulldoze crooked Hillary in the debates, game over....
It's difficult to tell who is winning the ratings war, Trump or the media.... Trump knows exactly how to get the media to follow everything he does, and they fall into the trap like the idiots that they are....