Obama says Trump’s criticism of a fallen Muslim-American soldier’s family is the latest evidence that the GOP presidential nominee isn’t ready to lead the country.
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Obama’s comments Tuesday were more specific, but delivered in a more dispassionate tone than his own convention speech endorsing Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
“The Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president”, Obama said at a White House news conference alongside the Prime Minister of Singapore. “What does this say about your party, that this is your standard bearer?” “He keeps proving it”. He said that while he disagreed with his Republican opponents in the 2008 and 2012 elections, he never thought they were unfit to do the job.
Check out Obama’s full challenge to Republican leaders below.
Obama continued and said that this opinion of Trump is shared by prominent Republicans.
‘I didn’t have a doubt that they could function as president, ‘ he said.
Trump took their condemnation and started public feud, implying that Khan’s wife didn’t speak because of Islam traditions.
It is with this friend in mind that Officer McGill says he will not consider voting for Donald Trump.
On Tuesday, one of the nominee’s sons, Eric Trump, attempted to suggest that the entanglement with the Khan family was somehow steam in a tea cup.
For most politicians, tangling with a bereaved military family would be out of bounds. When questioned to say which heel was affected by the spur, Mr Trump avers that he can’t recall. Khan criticized Trump’s position on Muslims and asked whether the real estate mogul had read the Constitution.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday fired senior adviser Ed Brookover, two sources close to his campaign said.
Trump spent the days after winning the Republican nomination criticizing a USA district court judge’s Mexican heritage.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Trump’s unwillingness to let the matter subside sparked outrage Monday from a chorus of Republicans.
Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, a former prisoner of war, said Trump did not have “unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us”.
Obama said ‘the fact that that has not yet happen makes some of these denunciations ring hollow’.
Martin told ABC News that while the building where the campaign event was held is capable of accommodating more than 1,000 people, the space that the Trump campaign had booked is limited to 1,000.
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In an interview with ABC News on Saturday, Trump dismissed Khan’s remarks. How this utterly shameless and despicable “man” can attack the Khan family is beyond me.
