Given the Republican nominee’s recent comments about the Khan family and his statement that, if President, he would consider recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea, does it make you question his fitness to be President?
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Others who have worked with Trump say the only way to ensure he moves on is to wait for him to tire of an issue or get drawn into another matter. “Obama-Clinton have single-handedly destabilized the Middle East, handed Iraq, Libya and Syria to ISIS, and allowed our personnel to be slaughtered at Benghazi”.
Barack Obama just poured some more ether on the GOP nominee. There has to come a point at which you say, enough.
Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, issued a sharp rebuke Tuesday to Republicans who have not condemned Donald Trump for his attacks on the Khan family, saying that the GOP is at a “moral fork in the road”. Mr Obama asked Republicans.
“There has to come a point at which you say, somebody who makes those kinds of statements doesn’t have the judgement, the temperament, the understanding to occupy the most powerful position in the world”, Obama said. This is daily and weekly where they are distancing themselves form statements he’s making.
The president asked Republicans why do they keep endorsing him and what does it say about the Republican party that Trump is your standard bearer.
Trump and the family of the slain soldier have been locked in an increasingly bitter dispute over Muslims in America and the nature of patriotic sacrifice.
Trump took their condemnation and started public feud, implying that Khan’s wife didn’t speak because of Islam traditions.
Senator John McCain, who Donald Trump said wasn’t a war hero, has lashed out at the Republican nominee. “Including the Speaker of the House [Paul Ryan] and the Senate Majority Leader [Mitch McConnell] and prominent Republicans like John McCain”, he said. “If we could get along with Russian Federation, wouldn’t that be a good thing, instead of a bad thing?”
Republican lawmakers have shown little appetite for holding a vote on the deal, which Trump routinely belittles on the campaign trail as bad for American workers.
Candidates have also wrestled with whether to appear alongside Trump when he campaigns in their states.
Obama said that even if he had lost his White House races in 2008 to McCain and in 2012 to former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, he would not have doubted their abilities to lead the country.
The president said his opposition to Trump is about more than policy differences. Last week, at the Democratic National Convention, the president said he didn’t think the nominee was within the mainstream of modern conservativism. I’ve never seen him act like this before.
Obama’s administration, through the Justice Department’s national security division, continues to investigate the hack. We need very, very strong leadership.
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Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa said Trump’s comments “are not in line with my own beliefs about how the members of the military and their families should be treated”.
