August 11, 2016 11:55 AM UTC

Trump Confirms Remarks: "No, I Meant He's the Founder of ISIS"

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• by: Colorado Pols

There’s just no helping Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, it seems. As CNN reports, Trump on Thursday made sure to clarify his remarks that President Obama “founded ISIS” — just, not in the way you might have thought:

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.

Trump was asked by host Hugh Hewitt about the comments Trump made Wednesday night in Florida, and Hewitt said he understood Trump to mean “that he (Obama) created the vacuum, he lost the peace.”

Trump objected.

“No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS,” Trump said. [Pols emphasis] “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?”

Okie, dokie.