Trump: Obama 'absolutely' founded ISIS

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Donald Trump insisted in a CNBC phone interview Thursday that President Barack Obama "absolutely" founded ISIS, and that Hillary Clinton was the terrorist group's co-founder.

In a wide-ranging interview detailing his economic plans on CNBC's "Squawk Box," the GOP presidential candidate also allowed for the possibility that he may not defeat Hillary Clinton.

  Trump initially made the ISIS comments on Wednesday.

Asked about them on CNBC, he doubled down and said "[Obama] was the founder of ISIS absolutely, the way he removed our troops. ..I call them co-founders."

This week, Trump has come under fire for remarks he made about the Second Amendment which had been interpreted by some as suggesting violence against Hillary Clinton.

"On the Second Amendment everybody came to my defense because there was nothing said wrong, I'm talking about the power of the voter," Trump said in a phone interview on "Squawk Box" Thursday. "Only the haters tried to grab on to that one."
However, Trump allowed for the possibility that his uncensored views may not result in a win.

"I think we're going to have victory but will see," Trump said. "At the end it's either going to work or I'm going to have a very very nice long vacation."

The GOP presidential nominee also addressed criticism that he had made a mistake when it came to comments about the Muslim parents of a deceased soldier, saying "its been put to bed for a longtime." The controversy erupted after the Khans appeared at the Democratic Convention on July 28.

Trump also said Obamacare, high taxes, and regulation are stifling business in the United States.

He said regulations are "making it virtually impossible to start new businesses and a lot of old businesses are being hurt very badly."

"Obamacare is devastating businesses, I get it all the time," he said.

  Trump's comments came Thursday morning during a stretch in which he has sought to focus on his campaign's economic message amid a series of controversies.

The Republican presidential nominee has spent much of this week fighting off criticism for comments he made about the Second Amendment interpreted by some as suggesting violence against Hillary Clinton. Clinton called him out on the remarks Wednesday, saying Trump's "casual inciting of violence" shows he does not have the temperament to be president.

Late last week Trump announced his team of economic policy advisers, which featured a number of high-profile financiers including hedge fund titan John Paulson. On Monday, Trump gave a speech in Detroit laying out his economic vision, which included a significant change to his tax plan. 

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PHARMACEUTICAL EXEC: Hillary Clinton Has Parkinson's Disease

According to pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli, footage of Hillary Clinton exhibiting bizarre behavior is proof that the presidential candidate is suffering from Parkinson’s disease.
“Involuntary movements” and difficulty walking is a form of dyskinesia

 

By Paul Joseph Watson

According to pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli, footage of Hillary Clinton exhibiting bizarre behavior is proof that the presidential candidate is suffering from Parkinson’s disease.

Citing his “15 year background in drug discovery and pharmaceuticals,” Shkreli asserts that the videos of Hillary’s strange facial movements and her difficulties with walking are “pretty unmistakable signs of Parkinson’s disease.”

Explaining that a stroke or a concussion wouldn’t explain the symptoms, Shkreli says that Hillary’s walking difficulties are a “cardinal symptom of Parkinson’s disease” and what is known as “freezing gait.” Shkreli adds that he helped develop a drug to treat the problem.

Hillary’s “on-off episodes” are a result of dopamine depletion, according to Shkreli, which is impacting Hillary’s movement.

“We’ve all seen the videos of her kind of making these perplexed facial movements,” says Shkreli, noting that Hillary’s over-reaction to balloons at the DNC was “unusual” because it betrayed an “inability to control her facial movements.

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However, Hillary’s seizure-like behavior in response to reporters asking questions in another clip was even more odd because she “made this involuntary movement for about ten seconds which was truly unusual,” states Shkreli, identifying the condition as a form of Parkinson’s-induced dyskinesia.READ MORE

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Police grab man climbing Trump Tower in New York City

A man who wanted an "audience" with Donald Trump spent three hours scaling the glass facade of Trump Tower on Wednesday using large suction cups, climbing as high as the 21st floor before police officers grabbed him and hauled him to safety through an open window.

The climber, identified by police as a 20-year-old Virginia man, wore a backpack and used a harness and rope stirrups to fasten himself to the side of the 58-story Manhattan skyscraper.

For a long time, the climber played a slow-motion cat-and-mouse game with would-be rescuers. Officers smashed windows and broke through ventilation ducts to block his progress. Police also lowered themselves toward him using a window washer's platform.

The man kept his distance by methodically working his way back and forth across the facade, repeatedly repositioning suction cups resembling a type commonly used by window washers to remove big panes of glass.

The chase ended dramatically just after 6:30 p.m.
As a crowd gasped on the street below, two officers leaned far out of a window, grabbed the climber's arm and harness, and in a flash yanked him from his dangling stirrups. He went through the opening head first, his legs pointed skyward.

"I reached out. I took hold of his hand and I said, 'Sir, would you come with me,'" said detective Christopher Williams, who made the grab.

Police had deployed large, inflated crash pads at the scene, but it was unclear how much protection they would have offered if the climber fell.
A day before the ascent, police said the climber posted a video on YouTube entitled, "Message to Mr. Trump (why I climbed your tower)." He posted the video under the name Leven Thumps, which is a character in a series of children's fantasy novels by the writer Obert Skye.

"I am an independent researcher seeking a private audience with you to discuss an important matter. I guarantee that it's in your interest to honor this request," he said. "Believe me, if my purpose was not significant, I would not risk my life pursuing it. The reason I climbed your tower is to get your attention. If I had sought this via conventional means, I would be much less likely to have success because you are a busy man with many responsibilities."

NYPD Assistant Chief William Aubrey said the man, who was not named by police, told officers the same thing after he was safely inside the building.

"At no time did he express that he wanted to hurt anybody," he said.
The tower is headquarters to Donald Trump's Republican presidential campaign and his business empire. Trump also lives there, though he was in Virginia in the afternoon and was headed to Florida for an evening event.

A Trump campaign spokeswoman didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

"This man performed a ridiculous and dangerous stunt," Michael Cohen, an executive at the Trump Organization, said in an emailed statement. "I'm 100 percent certain the NYPD had better things to do."

The climber began his ascent from a terrace that is open to the public during the day. Police said he was taken to a hospital to be evaluated.

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Trump: Obama 'founded ISIS'

Donald Trump said Wednesday that President Obama "founded" the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

"ISIS is honoring President Obama," he said during a rally in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.  "He's the founder of ISIS.

He founded ISIS."

"I would say the co-founder would be 'Crooked' Hillary Clinton," Trump added of Obama's former secretary of State and his Democratic rival.

Trump criticized Obama's decision to withdraw U.S. military forces from the Middle East and leaving behind a void ISIS could fill.

"We should never have gotten out the way we got out," he said. "We unleashed terrible fury all over the Middle East."

"Instead of allowing some small forces behind to maybe, just maybe, keep it under control, we pulled it out," the GOP's presidential nominee added.

"Then Obama came in, and normally you want to clean up and he made a bigger mess. We're not respected. We're laughed at all over the world."

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Muslims sue after Michigan city rejected mosque

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DETROIT — The leaders of an Islamic center filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Sterling Heights after the city last year rejected their plans to build a mosque that was strongly opposed by many residents.

And the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan announced that her office and the Department of Justice are investigating whether the mosque was treated fairly.

In the federal lawsuit, the American Islamic Community Center accuses the city of being biased against Muslims, citing emails from city officials that talked about getting investigated the possibility of the mosque's leaders being terrorists. In one email, a police official asks if the FBI can be contacted to see if the mosque leaders are "on their radar."

Last year, the planning commission of Sterling Heights voted 9-0 to reject building a mosque on 15 Mile between Ryan and Mound roads. City officials and residents have said their rejection was not based on bigotry, noting that the city already has a mosque, but over concerns that the location was not suitable for such a large building and could cause traffic problems.

The case is one of several that have come up in recent years across metro Detroit involving mosques facing stiff opposition from nearby residents.

Reached by the Detroit Free Press Wednesday, Sterling Heights Mayor Michael Taylor refused to comment. Sterling Heights' Police Chief John Berg and City Planner Chris McLeod did not return messages seeking comment. Former Sterling Heights Police Chief Michael Reese did not comment.

Meanwhile, United States Attorney Barbara McQuade said Wednesday: "The Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney's Office have been conducting an independent investigation, and that investigation is ongoing."

The lawsuit alleges that the constitutional rights of the mosque members were violated in denying the mosque. Residents who opposed the Shia mosque have said the building would be in a residential area that would cause congestion and wasn't suitable to area around 15 Mile.

But the lawsuit said that some of the residential opposition was rooted in anti-Islam prejudice. At public meetings, some in Sterling Heights expressed concern about Islamic extremism; the tensions exposed strained relations between some in the Chaldean (Iraqi Catholic) community in Sterling Heights and local Muslims.

"With a vociferous and racist member of the Planning Commission leading the charge, the Planning Commission voted to reject the site plan," said the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit. "With no other choice, the American Islamic Community Center has filed this suit seeking equitable relief to build the Mosque and seeks damages as the City of Sterling Heights’ conduct violates, among other things, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ... and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution."

The lead attorney filing the case on behalf of the mosque, based in Madison Heights, is Azzam Elder, once the deputy to former Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano.

“We all know of a time in our history when sentiment in America were anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, anti-German, anti-Japanese, or anti-Black, and those times have forever stained on our history," Elder said in a statement. "As defenders of the U.S. Constitution, we are confident that there will come a day when it will also be inconceivable to be anti-Muslim. This is why we filed this lawsuit, in order to continue the struggle of protecting the rights of all minority groups in America.”

Mayor Taylor has said previously that Sterling Heights respects diversity. About 23% of the city are immigrants, one of the highest percentages among cities in southeastern Michigan. It has a sizable Iraqi-American Christian community, some of whom escaped Islamic extremism in Iraq and had voiced worries about the mosque.

On Sept. 2 last year, Taylor wrote on Facebook: "I completely and unequivocally denounce any anti-Muslim bigotry."

He added: "I will work with the AICC (American Islamic Community Center) to ensure they have a place to worship in our city."

Taylor told the Free Press last year: "I urge all residents to be respectful and tolerant of each other. Regardless of the outcome, Sterling Heights must remain a place that is open and welcoming for people of all races, faiths, ethnicities, and backgrounds."

Elder, though, said that "the city of Sterling Heights and its political leadership has had nearly one year to make good on its wrong. They’ve failed to uphold the constitutional rights of its Muslim residents."

Mohammed Abdrabboh, an attorney helping with the lawsuit, wrote on Twitter Wednesday that "Islamophobia (is) alive and well in Sterling Heights."

The lawsuit says that some mosque members have lived in Sterling Heights for decades and others have served in the U.S. military.

“I am proud to have served in Desert Storm as a senior airman for the United States Air Force," said Khalil Abbas, who is a member of the Muslim Center. "My grandfather served in WWI and other family members served in other wars to protect the rights of all Americans. All I want is for the city of Sterling Heights to follow the U.S. Constitution, and protect my rights as a veteran and citizen.”

The lawsuit cites an email sent Aug.

19 from a resident to city officials asking that the mosque leaders be vetted for possible extremism and terrorism.

City Planner Donald Mende then forwarded that email along with the names of mosque leaders, including its imam, to the police chief at the time, Reese. Reese then forwarded it to John Berg, then a captain and now Sterling Heights police chief, asking him to ask a contact at the FBI if the mosque leaders are "on their radar."

A spokesman for the Detroit FBI could not be reached late Wednesday for comment.

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