Obama said that Trump was “unfit” for office and “woefully unprepared” to serve as president. The sitting president, who is approaching the end of his second and final term, added that the fact Trump would “attack a Gold Star family” means that he is “woefully unprepared to do this job”.
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Obama noted that leading Republicans, including Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, and one-time Republican presidential nominee John McCain, a US senator from Arizona, had criticized Trump for his remarks but have stood by their endorsements of him.
Donald Trump was roundly condemned from across the political spectrum for suggesting that Ghazala Khan, mother of of dead USA soldier Humayun Khan, was not allowed to speak during her husband’s widely lauded speech before the Democratic National Convention.
Donald Trump says President Barack Obama is attacking him because he’s “concerned I’m going to win”.
“This isn’t a situation where you have an episodic gaffe”, he continued. “This is daily. And weekly”, Obama said of Trump during a press conference with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain may have been given further pause by Trump’s refusal to reciprocate their endorsements.
Obama argued those denunciations “ring hollow” as long as Republicans continue to back Trump in the White House race.
Nathman, who retired in 2007, called the Republican businessman “unstable” and said his war of words with Khizr and Ghazala Khan should disqualify him from becoming president. “Look at Ukraine. He talks about Ukraine [and] how tough he is with Russian Federation, in the meantime they took over Crimea”.
Obama then pivoted to question why Republican leaders, who have denounced Trump’s response to a handful of issues, have still endorsed him.
Later in the day, Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson blamed both Obama and Clinton for the death of the soldier, Army captain Humayun Khan.
Obama’s point, which I’ve mentioned as well before, is that it doesn’t matter if Trump is (or claims to be) a Republican.
Trump has come under fire from within and without his party for his comments regarding the Khans.
“I find Trump deeply flawed in endless ways”, Mr Hanna wrote in a newspaper editorial.
Mr Trump was given a Purple Heart by a veteran on Tuesday, prompting the Republican nominee to declare that this was “much easier” than serving in combat.
Obama and Clinton, his one-time secretary of state, had “destabilised the Middle East” while putting the “country at risk” with Clinton’s use of a private email server, he said. “I don’t think that it wildly swings what is a tough, hard relationship that we have with Russian Federation right now”.
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At last week’s convention, Obama named Trump repeatedly, arguing the candidate was ignorant of facts and intent on dividing the nation.
