Trump seemed confused at the silent response by the anchors on The Squawk.
“Is there something wrong with saying that? Are people complaining that I said he was the founder of ISIS?” Trump said. “Look, all I do is tell the truth. I’m a truth teller. All I do is tell the truth.”
Trump then went on to explain the difference between calling the terrorist organization ISIS and ISIL, attacked Clinton over her 33,000 missing emails, her policies in Libya, saying that if Obama “had to do it again, he would never have chosen Hillary Clinton to be secretary of state.”
In the radio interview, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt pressed Trump on his main point, asking if by “founders” he meant to refer to the vacuum created by the troop withdrawal by the Obama administration.
HH: I’ve got two more questions. Last night, you said the President was the founder of ISIS. I know what you meant. You meant that he created the vacuum, he lost the peace.
Trump, however, kept to his statement.
DT: No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS. 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.
HH: But he’s not sympathetic to them. He hates them. He’s trying to kill them.
DT: I don’t care. He was the founder. His, the way he got out of Iraq was that that was the founding of ISIS, okay?
This is not the first time that Trump has connected Obama and Clinton to ISIS.
In June, he said in a telephone interview with Fox News that the president, in reference to the threat from ISIS, either “doesn’t get it or he gets it better than anybody understands.”
