Donald Trump wants you to know that President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, are the founders of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Even when Republican pundits tried to save him, Trump doubled down repeatedly, saying that Barack Obama is the founder of the Islamic terrorist group.
Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, also said that Trump was serious about his statement. In an interview with “Fox News Sunday”, Pence was asked to clear up the remarks made by Donald Trump. Fox News pundit’s juggled with the notion that Trump’s statements might’ve been sarcastic in nature – Mike Pense removed that doubt by answering with “I think he was being very serious.”
Trump is no stranger to double-talk, but calling the sitting president the founder of ISIS does not sit well, as his whimsical remarks could be taken as a form of disrespect for America’s armed forces that have been actively fighting against ISIS.
Who Actually Founded ISIS?
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the person who founded ISIS. al-Zarqawi was a religious zealot who was fighting against American and British forces in 2003. At that time, Barack Obama was the state senator for the 13th District of Illinois. With funding by Al Qaeda chief, Osama bin Laden, al-Zarqawi and his foreign fighters settled in Syria. A year later, the Bush administration noticed the full on revolt that was mandated by al-Zarqawi. al-Zarqawi’s rebellion group was peculiar, since it wasn’t loyal to Saddam Hussein and it wasn’t majority Iraqi.
al-Zarqawi and his followers broke off from Al Qaeda and renamed themselves the Islamic State of Iraq in 2006. Even though al-Zarqawi was eventually killed in an American airstrike, the terrorist group still proliferates to this day, targeting religious and ethnic minorities in its wake, specifically Shiite Muslims.
Is Trump Committing Political Suicide?
There has been a long-standing conspiracy theory that Trump exists in the political arena to catapult Clinton into the presidency. The past couple weeks, Trump has been saying ridiculous things that are even absurd for his standards – and it’s starting to show, with his polls plummeting.
What do you think? Do you think Trump is actively sabotaging himself in some sort of scheme to help Clinton?
