U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday Donald Trump will get national security briefings as required by law ahead of the election, but warned that the information in the briefings must be kept secret.
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Donald Trump says President Barack Obama is attacking him because he’s “concerned I’m going to win”. “What does that mean?” “That means being able to receive these briefings and not spread them around”, Obama said yesterday at a news conference.
Mr Trump quickly hit back at the President and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton – whom he often says is running for Mr Obama’s third term – as embracing policies that have destabilised the Middle East, hurt veterans and shipped American jobs overseas. You and I may know all this, but if Trump mentions it, the MSM will have the same fit they’re having over the Khans, and Arizona voters will hear about McCain’s questionable Vietnam record for the first time.
He said the presidential nominees have to get security briefings because whoever elected must be prepared and not start from scratch.
In continuing his critique of Trump, the president pointed out that elections are organized at the local level and said that a “conspiracy theory” of widespread election rigging would have to include places like Texas, where local election officials are largely Republican.
Republican leaders condemned the remarks, but Mr. Obama said that’s not enough.
According to legal experts, however, there is no law requiring security briefings of presidential candidates, just a decades-long practice of doing so. “It really hurts all of them”, the consultant said. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, out Thursday afternoon shortly after Obama spoke, gave Clinton a 9-percentage-point lead, 47 to 38 percent, against Trump. We’re a better country because of you.
John Roscoe, director of coordinated campaigns for the Trump campaign and the Ohio Republican Party. In the speech, Khan spoke about the hopes his son had before being killed by a suicide vehicle bomber in Iraq and called out Trump for never making any sacrifices for his country.
Obama additionally offered a survey of diverse military operations around the world, including the fight to support the Afghan government in its civil war with the Taliban and a growing ISIS presence.
Obama also forcibly denied that his administration had effectively paid a ransom to Iran after delivering $400 million of a $1.7 billion payment to settle a decades-old dispute over an arms deal on the same day that four USA prisoners were freed in January.
The celebrity businessman also asserted the Republican party had changed the delegate allocation in the Florida primary to favour a native candidate, like Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio, at Mr Trump’s expense.
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Obama also has the benefit of rising poll numbers.
