“Yes, I think the Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president”, Obama said when asked about Trump’s capabilities.
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Obama pointed out that the criticism of the Khan family – which stretched over at least four days after Khizr Khan addressed the Democratic convention and blasted Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims – and his statement that Vladimir Putin would never invade Ukraine were just the latest in a series of unforced errors Trump has made while campaigning.
Khan is the son of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose appearance at the Democratic Convention last week has been a source of unending pain for Donald Trump.
Trump made remarks about Ghazala Khan, who stood silently by her husband as he gave an impassioned speech about their son, Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed by a auto bomb in Iraq in 2004 and was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. Obama said, naming Ryan and McConnell. There has to be a point in which you say, ‘This is not somebody I can support for president of the United States, even if he purports to be a member of my party’.
Donald Trump has said he fears the presidential election “is going to be rigged” – an unprecedented assertion by a modern White House candidate. Trump delivered a political bodycheck to two famous Republicans who’ve been slightly critical of him: McCain and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
He went on to say that with past Republican nominees – including his former rivals John McCain and Mitt Romney – he never had doubts about their ability to do the job of president even though they disagreed on policy. And many of those backing Trump are doing so because they want a switch from the status quo, having become increasingly alienated under Obama’s Presidency.
Earlier, Mr Obama said Mr Trump was unfit to be president, and questioned why his party still backed him.
“There has to come a point at which you say, somebody who makes those kinds of statements doesn’t have the judgment, the temperament, the understanding to occupy the most powerful position in the world”, Obama said.
On Tuesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the first of the 2016 White House hopefuls to endorse Trump, said his response was “inappropriate”.
Trump, in one interview last weekend, said he had made sacrifices for the United State by creating “thousands of jobs” and providing workers benefits to improve their lives.
President Barack Obama is challenging leading Republicans to repudiate Donald Trump.
Obama said that denunciations from Republicans of Trump’s remarks “ring hollow” without an accompanying withdrawal of support.
At the same time, the aide said the controversy would probably not cause Republican senators to withdraw their endorsements of Mr Trump.
Mr Trump did not elaborate on his contention and a request to his campaign for additional explanation was not immediately returned.
Rep. Mike Coffman, a vulnerable Republican in a competitive Colorado district, said he was “deeply offended when Donald Trump fails to honor the sacrifices of all of our fearless soldiers who were lost in that war”. Capt. Khan died in 2004, when George W. Bush was president and Obama was just a state senator in IL.
“Obama indicated he does not have the same confidence that Trump will “abide by certain norms and rules and common sense” that go along with being president or that he would ‘observe basic decency”.
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The group Veterans of Foreign Wars said Trump’s comments are “out of bounds”.
