At a rally on Wednesday, Trump told a crowd in Florida: “ISIS is honoring President Obama. He is the founder of ISIS. He is the founder of ISIS, OK? He’s the founder. He founded ISIS. And I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.” Amid heavy pushback from the media, Trump backtracked in a tweet where he hit CNN for reporting the comments as serious and then asked, “THEY DON’T GET SARCASM?” Some may wonder whether those cheering at the rally in Florida thought he was being sarcastic.

A former Trump staffer has filed a lawsuit alleging that a top Trump aide in North Carolina pulled out a loaded gun and pointed it at his kneecap while the two were traveling together. The suit names both the Trump campaign and Trump’s former North Carolina director Earl Phillip as defendants. Vincent Bordini, the plaintiff, wrote in the complaint that the two didn’t talk about the incident, and Phillip acted as if it hadn’t happened.

Republicans are deeply worried that Donald Trump will be routed on Nov. 8. Following a letter to the RNC from national security officials, now a wider array of Republican officials are asking the RNC to stop funneling money to the Trump campaign, and instead focus on down-ballot races.

The U.S. Secret Service has acknowledged that it has been in contact with the Trump campaign over comments the nominee made which appeared to incite violence against his opponent Hillary Clinton. Additional security was seen on stage as Clinton spoke Wednesday afternoon in Des Moines, Iowa. Former CIA director Michael Hayden told John Harwood of CNBC: “If someone said that outside the hall, they’d be in a police wagon being questioned by Secret Service.”

On Wednesday afternoon, passersby on Fifth Avenue in New York would have seen a man trying to scale the Trump Tower with industrial grade suction cups. The 20-year-old man said that he wanted to eventually have a personal meeting with Donald Trump. The man was taken by police to have a mental evaluation.

Over 80% of respondents in a Wall Street Journal survey of economists said that the current election cycle is creating “an unusual muddle.” Some 57% of respondents said that the economy has suffered, at least a bit, as a result of the uncertainty around the presidential election. GDP growth forecasts for 2016 were revised downwards from 2.0% to 1.8%.

Despite kind words from the GOP nominee, House Speak Paul Ryan’s primary opponent was comprehensively beat in his Wisconsin primary. Ryan defeated Republican challenger Paul Nehlen by a huge margin, 84% to 16%. Earlier in the House primary cycle, Trump said of Nehlen that he was running “a very good campaign.” The vote of confidence clearly didn’t do much good.

A number of Republicans have expressed their support for Hillary Clinton, as their nominee becomes increasingly unpalatable. On Wednesday, the Clinton campaign announced the creation of a group for continuous Republican outreach called “Together for America.” The news comes amid a number of other Republican endorsements for Clinton, including: former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, former HUD Secretary Carla Hills, former Rep. Connie Morella, former Rep. Chris Shays and former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte.

The deaths of Americans in Benghazi during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State has plagued her campaign for president of the United States. Now, the parents of two of those killed in Benghazi are suing the presidential hopeful for wrongful death and defamation. The suit is being brought by Patricia Smith and Charles Woods, parents of Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods. They claim that Clinton’s use of her private email server contributed to the deaths at the American consulate in Benghazi.

Donald Trump is facing increasing trouble trying to appeal to the GOP establishment. On Monday, 50 senior national security officials in the GOP signed a letter saying that Trump would “risk our country’s national security and well-being.” The letter continued: “He weakens U.S. moral authority as the leader of the free world. He appears to lack basic knowledge about and belief in the U.S. Constitution, U.S. laws, and U.S. institutions, including religious tolerance, freedom of the press, and an independent judiciary.”