No, Obama Was Not the 'Founder' of ISIS

Article/Op-Ed in CNN
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Aug. 11, 2016

Peter Bergen wrote for CNN about Donald Trump's claims that President Barack Obama founded ISIS: 

At a rally in Florida on Wednesday, Donald Trump described President Obama as the "founder" of ISIS, going on to say the terrorist organization "is honoring President Obama."
Really?
On Thursday on CNBC he amplified these comments, saying Hillary Clinton was the "co-founder" of ISIS.
Like so much else that Trump has said, these claims are false. The founder of ISIS is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a shadowy Iraqi cleric who President Obama is doing everything in his power to kill.
Trump has claimed he knows more about ISIS than America's leading generals. Clearly this is also total nonsense; he doesn't seem to have done the slightest thing to educate himself about ISIS.