The President’s attack came after Mr Trump criticised an American Muslim family whose son, a captain in the US Army, was killed in Iraq.
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According to the White House, it’s the “most grants in a single day since at least 1900”. “He keeps on proving it”.
The president said his opposition to Trump is about more than policy differences.
Yet for the first time on Tuesday, a Republican member of the US Congress, Representative Richard Hanna from NY, said in an article in his local newspaper in Syracuse, that he would be voting for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, in November.
The President referenced Trump’s response to the parents of Army Captain Humayun Khan, a Muslim American who had been killed by a vehicle bomb during the Iraq War in 2004. He’ll probably go down as the worst president in the history of our country. “He’s been a total disaster”.
Obama described his feelings about Trump as unprecedented, recalling disagreements with previous GOP presidential nominees Sen. 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.
Numerous individuals whose sentences were commuted were non-violent drug offenders.
“There has to be a point in which you say: ‘This is not somebody I can support for President of the United States, even if he purports to be a member of my party'”.
“There has to come a point at which you say, somebody who makes those kinds of statements doesn’t have the judgment, the temperament, the understanding to occupy the most powerful position in the world”, Mr Obama said. “What does this say about your party that this is your standard-bearer?”
“This is a country that believes in second chances”, Obama wrote.
“This isn’t a situation where you have an episodic gaffe”, Obama said.
“I don’t doubt their sincerity”.
Mr Obama’s comments added to a growing number of statements from Republicans and Democrats lambasting Mr Trump for his criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, who appeared at the Democratic National Convention last week. Later, he argued that the people of Crimea “would rather be with Russian Federation than where they were” – an argument that Putin himself has made in justifying his annexation of the disputed Ukrainian territory.
Trump didn’t raise the controversy during a rally Monday in Ohio.
His sentence was the oldest, according to the DOJ, and will expire on December 1.
“Our alliances are stronger”, Mr Obama said.
“I think it just means he’s concerned I’m going to win”, Trump said. “I don’t think that it wildly swings what is a tough, hard relationship that we have with Russian Federation right now”.
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The cases were among 214 commutations announced Wednesday by the Obama administration.
