The Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump has accused President Barack Obama of being the founder of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL), also known as ISIS who are wreaking havoc from the Middle East to European cities.
“In many respects, you know, they honour President Obama”, Trump said during a raucous campaign rally outside Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
“He’s the founder of ISIS, okay?” Trump emphasised. “He’s the founder. He found ISIS.”
However, Trump has long blamed Obama and his former foreign minister Hillary Clinton for pursuing Middle East policies that created a power vacuum in Iraq that was exploited by ISIL.
CNN recorded that he has sharply criticized Obama for announcing he would pull US troops out of Iraq, a decision that many Obama critics said created the kind of instability in which groups like ISIL thrive.
The White House however declined to comment on Trump’s accusation.
Donald Trump, the former property mogul and reality TV star went on to criticize Clinton, his Democratic Party rival for the presidency.
“And I would say, the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton,” he said.
He has however in the past accused Clinton of “founding” the group.
In June, when a gunman who claimed allegiance to ISIL killed 49 people in a Florida nightclub, Trump seemed to suggest Obama was sympathetic to the group when he said Obama “doesn’t get it, or he gets it better than anybody understands”.
In the past, Trump has also falsely suggested Obama is a Muslim or was born in Kenya, where Obama’s father was from.
Trump lobbed the allegation halfway through his rally at a sports arena, where riled-up supporters shouted obscenities about Clinton and shouted “lock her up”.
He also railed against the fact that the Orlando shooter’s father, Seddique Mateen, was spotted in the crowd behind Clinton during a Monday rally in Florida, saying: “Of course he likes Hillary Clinton.”
“Hillary wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment,” Trump said. “Although the Second Amendment people – maybe there is, I don’ know.”
Trump’s campaign spokesman later denied allegation that the comments were advocating for Clinton to be assassinated.
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