Thread: Hezbollah Leader Echoes Trump That Obama, Clinton Founded ISIS

Hezbollah Leader Echoes Trump That Obama, Clinton Founded ISIS



Aug 14, 2016, 3:24 PM ET

The leader of Hezbollah this weekend quoted Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's accusation that President Obama and Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton founded ISIS.

Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese militant group, used Trump's claim last week that Obama and Clinton were behind the extremist group ISIS's establishment to bolster his criticism of the U.S. administration in a speech in Lebanon on Saturday, according to a transcript posted by the group's media arm.

"This is not simple speech,” Nasrallah said of Trump's remarks. “This is an American presidential candidate. This was spoken on behalf of the American Republican Party. He has data and documents.”

Trump said on Wednesday that Obama was "the founder of ISIS" and later expanded the claim to include Clinton. Trump repeated his accusation throughout the next day. He said Friday morning the comment was meant as sarcasm, but later that day qualified that by saying his initial claim was "not that sarcastic."

Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim militant group and political party, has aligned itself with Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime in that government's civil war against rebel factions. The Lebanese group is also fighting ISIS.

The United States has openly called for Assad to step down and considers both Hezbollah and ISIS terrorist organizations.

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ISIS was founded in its current incarnation by its present head, Abu Bark al-Baghdadi, in June 2014.

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President Obama 'Tired' of Talking About Donald Trump

MARTHA'S VINEYARD, Mass. — Aug 15, 2016, 7:45 PM ET



President Obama took a brief break from his 16-day vacation on Martha’s Vineyard to attend a Democratic National Committee fundraiser on the island, where he made a strong case for Hillary Clinton as he seemed to brush off Donald Trump.

“Frankly, I’m tired of talking about her opponent,” Obama said. “I don’t have to make the case against her opponent because every time he talks, he makes the case against his own candidacy.”

However, Obama warned Democrats in the room against becoming too cozy with the positive poll numbers as of late, saying it has been an unpredictable election season.

“If we are not running scared until the day after the election, we are going to be making a grave mistake,” Obama said.

While heaping praise on Clinton, Obama noted that her popularity has suffered throughout the campaign, ordering Democrats to push back in the months ahead.

“We are still going to have to fight what has been an unrelenting negative campaign against her that has made a dent in the opinion of people even who are inclined to vote for her,” Obama said. "So we’ve got to be aggressive in our campaign for 80 days and that’s not a lot."

The fundraiser was at a private residence in the town of Chilmark on the island with around 60 attendees who contributed $10,000 each to attend.

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