Days after bluntly declaring Donald Trump unfit to be commander in chief, President Obama warned the Republican nominee on Thursday to watch what he says after he gets the traditional pre-election classified briefings.
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Obama today equated Trump’s comments to children in the schoolyard complaining about a loss “before the score is even tallied”.
Obama additionally suggested that Trump needed to start acting more presidential, if he wanted to continue receiving intelligence briefings as the presidential nominee of the Republican party. “He keeps proving it”.
The backlash has caused Trump’s campaign to ask Capitol Hill to provide support for the Republican nominee. That same day, in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, he beseeched Republicans to start “watching closely” or the election will be “taken away from us” through fraud.
President Barack Obama has once again spoken out against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying that he is “woefully unprepared” to serve as leader.
“I’m not going to respond to every statement that’s made about me, whether it be by my opponent in the primary, or the general, or Mr. Trump”, he said.
Obama’s comments at a White House press conference came amid a roiling war of words between Trump and the father of a U.S. soldier who rebuked him as having “sacrificed nothing”.
Obama asked of GOP leaders, “What does this say about your party that this is your standard-bearer?”. “This isn’t an episodic gaffe, this is daily and weekly, where [Republicans] are distancing themselves from statements he’s making”.
Trump’s remarks play into a belief among some Republicans that voter fraud is a widespread problem, even though studies find it to be extremely rare.
“I don’t doubt their sincerity”.
“Just listen to what Trump has to say and make your own judgement with respect to how confident you feel about his ability to manage things like our nuclear triad”, he said.
Trump’s comments come as he is under the most severe bipartisan fire of his campaign following his criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son Humayun Khan, died in Iraq in 2004.
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The GOP presidential candidate has told supporters that November’s election results will likely be “rigged” as people go ” to vote 10 times maybe” and charged that “phony” polls underrepresent his level of support because they don’t reflect his the size of the crowds at his rallies.
