His criticism, at a news conference with Singapore’s Prime Minister, is in response to Trump’s treatment of a Muslim family whose US Army captain son was killed in Iraq.
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President Barack Obama offered one of his sharpest denunciations of Donald Trump to date Tuesday, declaring the Republican nominee entirely unfit to serve as president and lambasting Republicans for sticking by their nominee.
While Obama has always been critical of Trump, his blistering condemnation Tuesday was a notable escalation of his involvement in the presidential race.
Wasn’t he disrespectful, though, to that Gold Star family?
“Right now, I’m president and I’m for it, and I think I’ve got the better argument”, the president said, standing alongside the prime minister of Singapore, who is in the US for a visit and is also in favor of the deal.
Republican nominee Donald Trump has issued a fiery condemnation of President Barack Obama’s leadership. “There has to be a point at 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”.
In a news conference Tuesday, the president said the deal might stand a better chance of passing once the heated anti-trade rhetoric of this election season has been given time to cool down.
And Trump declared – quote – “Hillary Clinton has proven herself unfit to serve in any government office”.
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. “I mean we’ve seen a lot of things over the years and now without the voter ID’s and all the things going on and some bad court cases have come down”, Trump said. It’s not just the optics of picking a fight with a military family that has GOP officials eager for Trump to move on, but the timing of his attacks: Election Day is just three months away. But there have been Republican presidents with whom I disagreed with, but I didn’t have a doubt they could function as president.
Aiming to keep alive hopes for a post-election congressional vote in the closing weeks of 2016 in favor of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Obama said its merits would overcome fierce criticism on the campaign trail.
Dale Brown, a maintenance supervisor from Grove City, Ohio, whose son is in the Navy, said Democrats were blowing Trump’s comments out of proportion and had “politicized this by asking that family to speak”. In a statement, Trump said a victory by him in November is the only way to stop a “TPP catastrophe”.
“Obama-Clinton have single-handedly destabilised the Middle East, handed Iraq, Libya and Syria to ISIS, and allowed our personnel to be slaughtered at Benghazi”.
Trump also has come under fire for remarks in a television interview in which he appeared not to be aware of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea after its takeover from Ukraine. This family has lost a son, a hero, fought on the battle, prevented some of his fellow soldiers from dying by going into that suicide- that auto bombing, if you will. And that’s not just my opinion; that is the opinion of many prominent Republicans.
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“We have to do everything we can to make sure that everybody shares in prosperity, that we have strong rules to protect workers, to promote high wages, to make sure that our citizens are getting the education and the training that they need”, he said.
