Interesting August 2016 article from The Daily Beast

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-isis-obama-comments-first-came-from-the-russians-and-crazy-people

Donald Trump’s ISIS-Obama Comments First Came From the Russians and Crazy People

Olivia Nuzzi

08.12.16 1:00 AM ET

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Although Trump’s has claimed ignorance on the subject, his campaign did succeed in altering the Republican Party’s platform to feature less harsh language about Russia. Trump himself has praised Vladimir Putin, who has described him in flattering terms, and both claimed to know him well and claimed that he’s never met him at all.

Michael McFaul, a professor at Stanford University and fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Affairs, tweeted on Wednesday that “Trump’s line that Obama founded ISIS echoes exactly a myth propagated by Russian state-controlled media and bloggers.”

McFaul told The Daily Beast, “For years, I have seen posts nearly every day from Russian bloggers suggesting that President Obama founded and continues to fund ISIS. It seems to be one of their standard talking points… Last night, after I posted and refuted what Trump said in Russian, dozens of Russians jumped in to say that Trump was right, and I was wrong.”

Sure enough, Maria Katasonova, a Russian nationalist and candidate for the State Duma election, responded to McFaul, in Russian, “ISIS is the outcome of not only Obama policy, but of #CrookedHillary.”