{"id":45776,"date":"2016-08-11T06:10:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T10:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=45776"},"modified":"2016-08-11T06:12:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T10:12:37","slug":"donald-trump-calls-obama-founder-of-isis-and-says-it-honors-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=45776","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Calls Obama \u2018Founder of ISIS\u2019 and Says It Honors Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video\/players\/offsite\/index.html?videoId=100000004585032\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By <span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"NICK CORASANITI\" data-twitter-handle=\"NYTnickc\">NICK CORASANITI<br \/>\nThe New York Times<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"268\" data-total-count=\"268\">SUNRISE, Fla. \u2014 A day after remarks that appeared to suggest that gun rights advocates harm <a class=\"meta-per\" title=\"More articles about Hillary Clinton.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/us\/elections\/hillary-clinton-on-the-issues.html?inline=nyt-per\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>, <a class=\"meta-per\" title=\"More articles about Donald J. Trump.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/us\/elections\/donald-trump-on-the-issues.html?inline=nyt-per\">Donald J. Trump<\/a> sprayed his fire at <a class=\"meta-per\" title=\"More articles about Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/o\/barack_obama\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">President Obama<\/a> on Wednesday, accusing him of creating the Islamic State and saying the terrorist group \u201chonors\u201d him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"502\" data-total-count=\"770\">\u201cIn many respects, you know, they honor President Obama,\u201d Mr. Trump told a raucous and rowdy crowd in Florida on Wednesday night. \u201cHe\u2019s the founder of ISIS. He\u2019s the founder of ISIS. He\u2019s the founder. He founded ISIS.\u201d He added, \u201cI would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.\u201d During an extended riff on the crisis in Crimea, Mr. Trump added extra emphasis on the president\u2019s full name, saying that it occurred \u201cduring the administration of Barack Hussein Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"460\" data-total-count=\"1230\">Mr. Trump\u2019s statement was an escalation in his recent criticism of the Obama administration\u2019s handling of the terror threat, as he had previously accused only Mrs. Clinton of having a \u201cfounding\u201d role in the terror group. His suggestion that the president was honored by ISIS recalled an earlier controversy when Mr. Trump seemingly implied that the president had some connection to the terrorist massacre of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"324\" data-total-count=\"1554\">\u201cHe doesn\u2019t get it, or he gets it better than anybody understands,\u201d Mr. Trump told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2016\/06\/13\/donald-trump-suggests-president-obama-was-involved-with-orlando-shooting\/\">Fox News in June<\/a>. And the use of the president\u2019s middle name recalled Mr. Trump\u2019s questioning of Mr. Obama\u2019s faith during his crusade several years ago to prove that Mr. Obama, who is Christian, was not born in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"419\" data-total-count=\"1973\">Mr. Trump also found himself in an awkward camera framing immediately after criticizing the Clinton campaign for the appearance of Seddique Mir Mateen, the father of the Pulse gunman, at Mrs. Clinton\u2019s campaign event this week. \u201cWasn\u2019t it terrible when the father of the animal that killed these wonderful people in Orlando was sitting with a big smile on his face right behind Hillary Clinton?\u201d Mr. Trump said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"454\" data-total-count=\"2427\">Yet sitting behind Mr. Trump was Mark Foley, a former Republican congressman who resigned after being confronted with sexually explicit messages he had sent to underage congressional pages. Mr. Trump seemed not to be aware of the disgraced former congressman\u2019s presence as he tried to cast doubt on the Clinton campaign\u2019s account that it had not known who Mr. Mateen was. \u201cWhen you get those seats, you sort of know the campaign,\u201d Mr. Trump said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"487\" data-total-count=\"2914\" data-node-uid=\"1\">The boisterous rally here was a marked change from his rally earlier on Wednesday in Virginia, where a relatively subdued Mr. Trump promised he would be the best candidate to save the coal industry. He also said his remarks on Tuesday, in which he seemed to suggest that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/10\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-hillary-clinton.html\">\u201cSecond Amendment people\u201d<\/a> could take matters into their own hands if Mrs. Clinton were elected, had been misconstrued. \u201cThey can take a little story that isn\u2019t a story and make it into a big deal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"story-footer story-content\">\n<div class=\"story-meta\">\n<div class=\"story-notes\">\n<p>Alan Rappeport contributed reporting from Washington.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-rally.html?_r=1\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-rally.html?_r=1<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By NICK CORASANITI The New York Times SUNRISE, Fla. \u2014 A day after remarks that appeared to suggest that gun rights advocates harm Hillary Clinton, Donald J. 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