Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim

[UpInArms]

Source: Politico

Donald Trump put his foot on the gas pedal again, driving home the accusation he had reversed himself hours earlier that President Barack Obama founded the Islamic State.

Trump had eased off the claim Friday morning, blasting the media for seriously reporting what he suggested was a sarcastic comment. “Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) ‘the founder’ of ISIS, & MVP,” Trump tweeted. “THEY DON'T GET SARCASM?”

He seemed to revel in the uncertainty his tweet created, boasting nearly 90 minutes later of pundits’ inability to figure him out. “I love watching these poor, pathetic people (pundits) on television working so hard and so seriously to try and figure me out. They can't!” Trump declared.

But during an afternoon rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Trump said his initial remark wasn’t “that sarcastic, to be honest with you.”

“So I said the founder of ISIS,” Trump recalled to the crowd, after accusing the president of being “so weak and so bad” that he allowed the Islamic State to grow. “Obviously I’m being sarcastic. Then — but not that sarcastic, to be honest with you.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-obama-islamic-state-sarcasm-226947

[landolfi]

1. Let's face it:

If you have to say "to be honest with you", you are either lying now or you were before.

[AC_Mem]

19. You took the words

Right out of my fingers 😀. When he says " honestly" or "believe me" or "I have to be honest with you", it is preceded by or followed by, a lie. How can his sheep not see this?

[SummerSnow]

2. So, he flip flopped on his flip flops. ROFLMAO

Freaking amazing

[Wednesdays]

21. The debates will be most amusing

[cornball 24]

27. Love this!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. What probably happened was that when the media started reporting

that he'd backed down on his original statement, Trump thought that made him look weak so he un-backpedaled. He can't stand being thought to be weak or influenced by the "corrupt" media.

[central scrutinizer]

23. He's gonna blow a hammy

Doing that. Few cornerbacks in the NFL could keep up with routes like that.

[Eugene]

4. One risks getting whiplash from following Trump's changes in direction.

I didn't really mean it except maybe I did. Real presidential material... NOT.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Spoken like a truly crazy person

There is something serious wrong with Trump.

[riversedge]

6. These type of tweets should tell all that Trump is NOT presidential. If Hillary put out those type

of tweets, she would have to drop out of race, as the media would be relentless in their criticism.

[ecstatic]

7. Agreed. I can't stand the double standard! nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. He's an amateur. Making it up from one hour to the next. Amateurs don't make good Presidents. . nt

[WatchWhatISay]

13. Still hacks me off when I think about what happened to Howard Dean

It was a strange yell, to be sure. But worthy of eliminating him from Democratic nomination? I never understood that.

How does Trump get away with this? Well it appears his bizzare behavior is finally starting to sink in with his worshippers, but with 3 months left to go who knows what will happen.

There is still a huge double standard when you compare what they are going after Hillary for compared what Trump has gotten away with.

[Angry Dragon]

8. Trump to buy flip-flops for all of his supporters

[GeorgeGist]

9. The man should be institutionalized.

He's a danger to civilization.

[Wellstone ruled]

11. And the weak kneeed Media so called

Talent rolls over once again. Wow,the so called Fourth Estate is so in the bag with this Twit.

[WatchWhatISay]

15. Most of them cant stand him either

But they will sell out for viewership

[Wellstone ruled]

18. These so called Talent's are such stooge's

and they bastard themselves for the big money. The real story is,these folks are mostly overpaid Script Readers and it is the Producer of the Programming is the real Media Power Person. These folks are like a dog on a leash controlled by Media Management.

[Siwsan]

12. My interpretation is that he is now in full blown panic mode

In the past, when he found himself in something that was really over his head, he just walked away and 99.9% of the world never even knew he had f'ed something up, again. Now the whole world is watching, and for once he is being shown for the incompetent, self centered huckster that he actually is.

[Doodley]

14. Little Don is looking very, very weak, very low energy.

[TeamPooka]

16. So his meds last about 8 hours. When he takes them. nt

[jpak]

17. King Cheeto of Orange and UberPresident Comment Troll has spoken

so STFU all you libs

[maxsolomon]

20. Isn't he supposed to be meeting with the RNC to hash things out?

was that this morning?

[brooklynite]

22. No: his campaign was

Trump would NEVER take a meeting like that.

Of course, Trump would never listen to any advice coming out the meeting either.

[maxsolomon]

24. I see it's supposed to be in Orlando

might be going on right now.

If I were the RNC, I wouldn't take a meeting he wasn't at. Eventually they need to hear him say he understands. Which will be a lie.

[TomCADem]

25. He is just trolling the press now? Sarcasm?

He was dead serious! Wait, can' you take a joke.

[progree]

26. “He sometimes uses three words when he needs 10,” Gingrich told Fox News

How about

“He sometimes uses three words when he ought to say zero”

[liberal N proud]

28. Sarcasm or not sarcasm? You just never know

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[truthisfreedom]

29. Sounds like a good candidate for

electroshock therapy.

[marble falls]

30. So I guess that the liitle "come to Jebus" intervention at the RNC this week didn't take.