Trump’s temperament has always been an issue in the 2016 election campaign, but criticism of the real estate mogul and GOP nominee’s character has intensified over the last week after he attacked the Gold Star family of a slain Muslim American soldier and suggested the upcoming election could be “rigged”, among other comments.
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Now President Obama has responded.
The advertised goal of President Barack Obama’s pre-vacation news conference Thursday was to highlight gains in the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria with the Pentagon as a backdrop.
After becoming their parties’ nominees last month, Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton are both entitled to security briefings, which are meant to prepare them for office.
Obama further said if someone wins the election and becomes the president then his constitutional responsibility will br to to peacefully transfer power to the individual and do everything to help them succeed.
While avoiding specifically mentioning any presidential candidate by name, President Barack Obama had a message for the two nominees who have received classified briefings: “Start acting like the president”.
But I’ve never heard of somebody complain about being cheated before the game was over! “And I said I don’t wanna touch a golf club, unlike our president, who plays more golf than people on the PGA tour”. 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.
“What I will say is that they (Clinton and Trump) have been told these are classified briefings and if they want to be president, they’ve got to start acting like president”. “Of course the election will not be rigged!”
“The president has confidence in the integrity of our electoral process and everybody else should, too”, he told reporters at Wednesday’s daily briefing, according to Politico. “My suggestion would be you know, go out there and try to win the election”.
At a rally on Monday, Trump said that the Republican presidential primary was rigged, and he would have lost if he hadn’t won the Republican nomination in a “massive landslide”. Some Trump critics have contended that the billionaire’s unrestrained tongue could put USA secrets at risk.
Pressed again on whether he thought Trump could be trusted, Obama seemed satisfied with himself. The threat of fraud “has been used to justify the rules that we’ve seen a revival of in the last several years that are actually making access more hard for certain groups of people”, Minnite said.
“When I went to Scotland and I cut the ribbon and I inspected my son’s work and then I got on a plane and very quickly I came back”.
He also referred to the uproar generated by a report published this week by “The Wall Street Journal”, which revealed that the United States chartered a plane to Iran in January to transport $ 400 million in cash, after which Tehran freed four U.S. citizens who were detained in the country.
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Thanks for sharing, but as our “folks” say in our country: after 8 years we are so broke we can’t afford to pay attention.
