Trump says comment on Obama founding IS was sarcasm

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Donald Trump backtracked Friday from his assertion that President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton founded the Islamic State group, saying he was just being sarcastic.

As he often does, the Republican presidential nominee accused the news media of misconstruing something he said.

In this case he targeted CNN, although his comments on the militant group and the president were picked up across the news spectrum.

“Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) “the founder” of ISIS, & MVP. THEY DON’T GET SARCASM?,” Trump wrote in a tweet.

Trump first made the accusation Wednesday at a rally in Florida, and repeated it in interviews Thursday.

He appeared to be mimicking the argument that the US troop withdrawal from Iraq under Obama, with Clinton serving as secretary of state, created a vacuum that allowed the Islamic State group to emerge and flourish in Iraq and Syria.

But Trump did not explain fully what he meant.

He also said he considered Clinton, his Democratic rival for the presidency, to be the co-founder of the Islamic State group.

The Clinton team responded Thursday by calling the assertion outlandish.

“Anyone willing to sink so low, so often should never be allowed to serve as our commander-in-chief,” Clinton wrote in a tweet.

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