“Yes, Obama is a founder of ISIS, he removed the troops from there.”
A founder is not a person who created the conditions that led to the creation of something by somebody else. If I forget to lock the door and robbers will use that to come in, this won’t make me a robber. If I leave a sheet of paper lying around and somebody writes an award-winning poem on it, that won’t make me a poet.
As a linguist, I’m almost physically in pain when I observe the spillage of this verbal mush.

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