What does that mean?
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Regardless of who wins the election in November, the president said it will be his constitutional responsibility to oversee a peaceful transfer of power regardless of his personal feelings about the Republican nominee, who he has called “unfit” to be president.
As recent national polls are showing him falling further behind Democrat Hillary Clinton, Trump, who’s repeated various conspiracy theories throughout the campaign, on Monday launched an attack on the legitimacy of the United States electoral system. “That is ridiculous”, he said.
Trump’s allegations does not make any sense and I don’t think anybody would take that seriously, he added. The federal government does have a role in monitoring the vote to assure the integrity of the process, he said. States and cities and communities all across the country, they’re the ones who set up the voting systems and the voting booths.
“If we see jurisdictions that are violating federal laws in terms of equal access and aren’t providing ramps for disabled voters or are discriminating in some fashion, or are otherwise violating civil rights laws, then the justice department will come in and take care of that”, he said.
President Barack Obama says Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton should receive classified security briefings as the presidential nominees because it’s both tradition and required by the law.
“But I never heard of somebody complaining about being cheated before the game was over, or before the scored was even tallied”, he said said.
On Thursday, Mr Obama dismissed as ridiculous Mr Trump’s claims that the election may be rigged. “That doesn’t seem to be the case at the moment”, Obama said.
And as far as the nuclear weapons it was reported this week Trump is so eager to use?
He said he has a very strong opinion about the two candidates who are running for president.
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.
“I know this is the subject of debate at the end of the last presidential election when some supporters of Gov. [Mitt] Romney complained of skewed polling”, he said. “What I will say is that they have been told these are classified briefings, and if they want to be president, they have to start acting like a president”. At the end of the day, it is the American people’s decision, he said.
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Obama explained that the briefings are a necessity, “so that if they were to win, they are not starting from scratch in terms of being prepared for this office”.
