President Barack Obama is mocking Republicans who repeatedly denounce Donald Trump at the bidding of the mainstream media, challenging them to reject their party’s nominee.
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“I think the Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president”, Obama said. “He’s been a total disaster”. “This is daily and weekly, where they are distancing themselves from statements he is making”.
Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton, his one-time secretary of state, had “destabilised the Middle East” while putting the “country at risk” with Mrs Clinton’s use of a private email server, he said. Is it possible that he could insult his way to the White House?
Trump questioned whether Mrs. Khan did not speak at the convention because she was prevented from doing so by her religion and he characterised Mr. Khan’s criticism of him as “vicious”.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump broke a major American political and societal taboo when he engaged in an emotionally charged feud with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the bereaved parents of a decorated Muslim Army captain killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq.
“There have been Republican presidents with whom I’ve disagreed with, but I didn’t have a doubt that they could function as president”, Obama said Tuesday. Others, including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and House speaker Paul Ryan, have broken with the nominee on individual issues but continue to back his candidacy.
On the campaign trail on Tuesday, Trump further dropped jaws by telling a mother and her crying baby to leave a rally and saying he “always wanted to get a Purple Heart”, after being given one by a military veteran who supports him.
“He should stay out of it. He should focus on running the country and then moving off into the annals of history”, he says.
“We have to do everything we can for those families and honor them and be humbled by them”, Obama added. But I never thought that they couldn’t do the job. But federal officials said there is strong evidence indicating the breach was perpetrated by hackers working on behalf of Russian Federation intelligence.
He maintained his belief that the upcoming presidential election is rigged. In statements from only a few years ago, however, Trump said he enjoyed warm ties with Putin. While the President has freely criticized Trump in the year since the businessman entered the race, his denunciations have come faster and harsher in the last several weeks.
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In that speech, Obama argued that Trump’s own convention “wasn’t particularly Republican – and it sure wasn’t conservative”. And in June, Obama lit into Trump’s response to the mass shooting in Orlando, saying he was peddling a unsafe vision. Obama’s intervention is extraordinary and it’s hard to think of a precedent for a sitting President condemning in such terms one of the frontrunners who could replace him.
