Trump Calls President Obama The Founder Of ISIS As Critics Condemn Him Loudly

Donald Trump is Already Preparing His Excuses for Losing the Debates with Hillary by Jim Newell Slate

One of the 10 or 15,000 Donald Trump subdramas heading into the fall is the question of whether the Republican presidential nominee will participate in all three scheduled debates. It’s usually taken for granted that major-party candidates will agree to the Commission on Presidential Debates’ schedule, but there’s no law requiring it, and Trump has never seen a political norm he hasn’t considered razing and building something gaudy over. And over the past couple of weeks, he’s laid the groundwork for not participating in the debates by suggesting that they are, in some nebulous way, a trap he can’t agree to until he’s carefully combed through the conditions.

Trump ramps up attack on Obama as founder of ISIS Politico

Donald Trump reaffirmed Thursday morning his accusation that president Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the most valuable players for the Islamic State. The candidate doubled down on his thundering accusations delivered at a Wednesday night rally -- that Clinton and Obama are the true founders of the militant group because it flourished as US troops pulled out of Iraq. Note that ISIS gained a major foothold in the prisons of Iraq under US President George Bush. 

The Manhattan billionaire bristled at the notion that referring to the president and his former secretary of state as the co-founders of a terrorist group intent on killing Americans was somehow inappropriate. He said he has been successful thus far as a political outsider throughout the election cycle by speaking his mind, and if that ends up costing him the general election, so be it.

“Is there something wrong with saying that? Are people complaining that I said he was the founder of ISIS?” He said. “Look, all I do is tell the truth. I'm a truth teller. All I do is tell the truth.”

Secret Service spoke to Trump campaign about 2nd Amendment comment CNN

Inspite of Donald Trump's denials that the Secret Service has contacted the campaign in response to the candidate's inflammatory comments about gun rights believers taking action against Hillary Clinton, an official of the department has confirmed to CNN that dialogue has taken place, although it's unclear at what level. 

The national controversy erupted on Tuesday afternoon when Trump said at a rally that Second Amendment defenders could take action to stop Clinton from appointing Supreme Court justices who support the currently unlimited curbs on gun rights legislation.

"Hillary wants to abolish -- essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know," Trump said. "But I tell you what, that will be a horrible day, if Hillary gets to put her judges in, right now we're tied."

The Secret Service's communications director Cathy Milhoan has not confirmed the conversations between the campaign and the Secret Service, but said in a statement Tuesday that "the U.S. Secret Service is aware of Mr. Trump's comments."

Reagan Daughter Blasts Trump for Inciting Violence CNN

"To Donald Trump: I am the daughter of a man who was shot by someone who got his inspiration from a movie, someone who believed if he killed the President the actress from that movie would notice him," Patti Davis wrote in a Facebook post that went up late Wednesday night.

"Your glib and horrifying comment about 'Second Amendment people' was heard around the world," Davis continued. "It was heard by sane and decent people who shudder at your fondness for verbal violence. It was heard by your supporters, many of whom gleefully and angrily yell, 'Lock her up!' at your rallies. It was heard by the person sitting alone in a room, locked in his own dark fantasies, who sees unbridled violence as a way to make his mark in the world, and is just looking for ideas," Davis wrote. "Yes, Mr. Trump, words matter. But then you know that, which makes this all even more horrifying."

Hillary Clinton doesn't want to abolish the Second Amendment. Here's what she DOES want to do VOX

Here are the facts about what candidate Clinton seeks in the public policy arena of gun control.

"She wants comprehensive, universal background check legislation. She wants to repeal civil immunity for gun manufacturers. She wants to ban assault weapons, ban the severely mentally ill and domestic abusers from buying guns, and use executive powers to limit the current gun show loophole to background checks. "

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