THE GOP IS NOW SEEING THAT DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SHAM CANDIDATE

…This is the real ISIS, and it was not founded by the president and Hillary Clinton

 

Islamic State was originally formed in 2002 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

 

OK, let’s get this straight, regardless of Donald Trump's repeated assertions, “President Obama is not the founder of the Islamic State, or ISIS!”

 

The Islamic militant group, which started referring to itself as the Islamic State three years ago, was originally formed in 2002 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.  This is not me saying this, it’s according to the Mapping Militants Project at my alma mater, Stanford University.

 

Originally called Jama'at al-Tawhid wa'l Jihad, in Arabic, it eventually joined al-Qaeda to form what was called, al-Qaeda in Iraq.  Then, in 2013, it split from al-Qaeda to become the “Islamic State”.  In fact, today, these two groups really hate each other.

 

The main disagreement today between al Qaeda and ISIS was apparently centered on the way in which the ISIS leader declared the caliphate and demanded oaths of allegiance to it, with himself as leader. 

 

In addition, al Qaeda had some serious issues with the level of brutality which ISIS was bringing to bear upon the local Sunni Muslims.  

 

For instance, ISIS was instituting an extreme and brutal version of what the al Qaeda theologians would otherwise have envisioned as their own legitimate caliphate.  Or as someone stated, “What ISIS was doing was staging something like an Islamic-based slasher video, being acted out on their grand Middle Eastern stage.”

 

Basically, all the be-headings, and horrible killings of those that didn’t buy into exactly what ISIS believed, this was going too far from the point-of-view of the al Qaeda leaders.

But the reality is that Obama no more founded the Islamic State than the Italian Americans that were required to pay extortion money created the Chicago Mafia.

 

But, if you listen to Donald Trump, he would have you believe that it was Obama's foreign policy that created the space for the Islamic State to gain power.

 

Why Trump is attempting this approach to the election at this time is a curious question, but for Trump, understandable….?

 

Donald Trump knows that he must keep the attention on himself at all times.

 

For that reason, Trump has decided that he must have some kind of outrage every day.  In fact, he prides himself on it.

 

Trump has the perfect excuse that he had offered to us about a year ago: That is that he's simply not going to be, "politically correct."

 

He's not P.C., he told Fox News' Megyn Kelly in the very first Republican debate last August.

 

Trump avoids the statements of the more experienced politicians and he is clearly comfortable with being imprecise in how he makes his points. In his mind, he's simply telling it like it is.

 

"All I do is tell the truth," he said during his recent  interview with CNBC. "I am a truth-teller."  We viewers are just to ignore the fact that he lies about 50% of the time.  But according to Trump, he really is a “Truth Teller”.

 

But in reality, Trump just feeds off the approval of his crazy base of supporters. He has been repeating the line about Clinton being responsible for the rise of the Islamic State for a while now.

 

But this latest blaming Obama is different. His description of the president as the founder of the Islamic State was gaining in his volume and frequency as he was seeing the crowd eating it up. It was totally Pavlovian, watching Trump ride the wave of applause as he said his statements over and over again, that the American president had founded the ISIS group.

 

You will recall that back in June, he implied that Obama was actually sympathetic to terrorists.  He told us in an interviewer at Fox that "we're led by a man that either is not tough, not smart or has something else in mind.  And the something else in mind…people can't believe it," he then continued. "People cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can't even mention the words radical Islamic terrorism. There's something going on here."  He obviously wanted to leave a question about Obama in the viewers minds…….!

 

Trump is doing all he can to take advantage of those Republicans that he had previously convinced that Obama was not a legitimate president because he wasn’t born in America.  Even recent polling has shown that 43% of Republicans still think Obama is Muslim, despite the president regularly noting that he isn't.

 

Last week, Trump said at a rally that "Second Amendment people might be the only way to keep Clinton from appointing justices once she was president.” Despite Trump's failed attempts to explain his comments as somehow suggesting he was talking about electoral votes, it was pretty clear that he was picking up on a dark long-time GOP idea. That idea being that at some point, government overreach might require the use of those same weapons that the Second Amendment protects. He was obviously saying something that he knew would resonated with those in his extreme support base.

But any defense of Donald Trump’s “Second Amendment” comment just doesn’t make any sense, and here’s why.

 

Hillary is currently focused on the general election.  She is trying to get Republican voters to pick her over Trump, or to at least stay home on Election Day.

 

At the same time, she has an operation that's contacting voters on the ground and television spots running on the air. She has local surrogates making her case across the country.  She is basically running a well-organized and traditional election campaign.

 

On the other side, Trump isn’t running ads and he doesn't have many folks in the field.  It’s just himself, and he doesn’t have strong staff members that can control him and his message.

 

In a traditional campaign, there would be a strong staff group citing the lowering polls which show how the opponent is stacking up against him and that he needs to change what he’s doing.

 

But Trump continues publicly to say that he's doing well.  Trump thinks that because he gets big crowds at his rallies, and that he had beaten everyone in the primaries, he thinks this is the way the country feels about him.  He refuses to understand that those attending his rallies are just a small sliver of the millions of American voters.  And these supporters are much more extreme than the average American voter.

 

But “The Donald” does actually believe that he has a serious path to the presidency. But if that’s so, why doesn’t he stop speaking off the cuff and pivot to being a traditional candidate?

 

And why does he always refuses to say that anything that he has done or said is a mistake?  His explanation for his "Second Amendment" comments doesn't make any sense, and it would have been simple to say he misspoke. But that’s not a possibility for a someone like Donald J. Trump!.

 

Even though Trump has now stated that he was being sarcastic when he said that Obama was the founder of ISIS, it was only the day before he said the following in a conversation with the conservative radio host, Hugh Hewitt about his Islamic State comment:

 

HEWITT: “Last night you said that the president was the founder of ISIS. I know what you meant, you meant that he created the vacuum, he lost the peace.”

 

TRUMP: “No, I meant that he's the founder of ISIS, I do. He was the most valuable player. I gave him the most valuable player award. I give her too, by the way.”

 

HEWITT: “But he's not sympathetic to them. He hates them; he's trying to kill them.”

 

TRUMP: “He was the founder, his -- the way he got out of Iraq was the founding of ISIS.”

 

HEWITT: “By using the term ‘founder,’ they're hitting you on this again. Mistake?”

 

TRUMP: “No, it's no mistake. Everyone's liking it. I think they're liking it.”

 

Trump then asked Hewitt if he liked it; Hewitt said he did not.

 

But as long as everyone at his rallies likes it, and as with any reality show celebrity, as long as his fans like it, that's what really matters the most.

 

Now that Trump says he didn’t mean all of his many claims about Obama founding ISIS, and that he was just being “sarcastic”…….RIGHT!

 

Just more reasons why that even a candidate with the problems that Hillary has, she can still continue to beat Donald Trump in the polls and most likely, in November.

 

Trump has now started to say that if he loses in November, he will just then take a very long vacation.

 

The GOP organization is finally starting to see that Trump is just a sham as a real candidate for the most powerful position in the world.

 

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