Thread: Donald Trump Pushes Conspiracy Theory That Obama Supports ISIS

Donald Trump Pushes Conspiracy Theory That Obama Supports ISIS

By JUSTIN FISHEL
Jun 15, 2016, 1:36 PM ET

Donald Trump said today he was right to imply that President Obama is an ISIS sympathizer.

In an attempt to defend his controversial claims that the president supports the terrorist group, the presumptive Republican nominee tweeted a story from anti-Obama website Breitbart.com that cites a newly discovered “secret” memo the website says proves Obama is an ISIS supporter.

The memo, as it turns out, is neither secret nor does it demonstrate the administration’s support for ISIS or any other policy. Indeed, it’s a recently declassified and heavily redacted intelligence field report from August 2012 about the worsening security situation in Iraq, obtained by the conservative watchdog Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information lawsuit.

Breitbart falsely concludes that because the memo mentions that al Qaeda in Iraq (a precursor to ISIS) is fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Obama administration therefore supports ISIS.

The Obama administration, particularly through its State Department, has spoken at length about the complicated process of vetting the array of opposition groups in order to avoid supporting those with ties to extremism.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest Monday responded to a question about Trump's claims the same day. "Well, I think what is clear is, if you take a look at the president’s record, it speaks for itself,” Earnest said. “And that record includes a lot of dead terrorists."

Conspirator-in-Chief

Trump is no stranger to pushing conspiracy theories. He practically gave birth to the "birther" movement, which aimed to prove President Obama was not a U.S.-born citizen. That saga ended in dramatic fashion after the president produced his birth certificate to the public. Trump also has a history questioning Obama's Christian faith, once claiming that this birth certificate may list him a Muslim.

Trump also claims, despite any evidence, that "thousands and thousands" of Muslims were cheering from rooftops in New Jersey as the World Trade towers fell on 9/11. He suggested that Supreme Court Jusitce Antonin Scalia may have been murdered. He said that Sen. Ted Cruz's father might have been implicated in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

He has said repeatedly that Obama didn't have the grades to get into the Ivy league schools, suggesting he might not have attended Columbia and Harvard.

Trump has often expressed his belief that autism is caused by childhood vaccinations, a discredited claim opposed by public health officials. And he recently alleged that Hillary Clinton was involved in the death of Vince Foster, a former White House aide who committed suicide in 1993.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donal...ry?id=39877503

Justin Fishel, first of all, you call Breitbart an "anti-Obama" website, because they report news you don't report about the Obama Administration. So, then, your clearly anti-Trump article makes ABC a iased, anti-Trump news outlet. Fair and balanced?

Second of all, you call people who question the integrity of this President with regards to the mess in Iraq and Syria, "conspiracy theorists"? Is there a theory you've proved wrong? I didn't think so, it's all proved the theories correct.

Third of all, you claim that memo that Trump is referring to that was secured by Judicial Watch through an FOIA request was not a "secret" document? If you had to go through the hoops of an FOIA to get it, then it was most certainly a "secret" document until a judicial process allowed it to be made a public document.

Lastly, then you write this:

Breitbart falsely concludes that because the memo mentions that al Qaeda in Iraq (a precursor to ISIS) is fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Obama administration therefore supports ISIS.

I've not read the article, but most Americans with 2 live brain cells still connected have correctly concluded that the Obama Administration financed the establishment of ISIS, which spawned from the so-called Syrian Rebel Army, who handed over all US supplied weapons and the vast stashes of cash given to them by the US government to ISIS, apparently the same was done in Iraq, for no valid reasons at all, which means only one thing. The Obama Administration was knowingly financing the creation of ISIS. When it's our weapons they're using and our money funding them, that the Obama Administration gave to them or allowed them to take, there is no other explanation for it. No one in our government is actually that stupid or that incompetent, although I'll admit it's an arguable point.

Nevertheless, you call the conclusion "false" with no evidence at all to disprove the conclusion, the conclusion conforms with the facts and events, and your characterization of such a conclusion as "false" is just dead wrong. If you have some real evidence that the obvious is "false", then I'm sure you would have printed it, but you didn't.

Instead you cite some vague non-factual BS handed out by the Obama Administration State Department about a "complex vetting system for the array of opposition groups" to defend Obama and these inexplicable actions of providing weapons and cash to ISIS.

Who are you anyway? Why are you defending Obama and attacking Trump? I'll tell you what you are, you're just another crazy biased writer with a foreign agenda.

Donald Trump is correct calling Obama out as the traitor he is!

W

Obama is a proven traitor. He's not only put terrorists ahead of Americans, he's put illegal aliens,foreign interests, foreign governments, and foreign nationals ahead of Americans.

If that's not the definition of traitor, I don't know what would be.