Obama says Trump ‘unfit,’ challenges GOP to drop support
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President Barack Obama answered questions during a joint news conference with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in the East Room of the White House in Washington today.
WASHINGTON » In a searing denouncement, President Barack Obama castigated Donald Trump as “unfit” and “woefully unprepared” to serve in the White House. He challenged Republicans to withdraw their support for their party’s nominee, declaring “There has to come a point at which you say ‘enough.’”
While Obama has long been critical of Trump, his blistering condemnation Tuesday was a notable escalation of his involvement in the presidential race. Obama questioned whether Trump would “observe basic decency” as president, argued he lacks elementary knowledge about domestic and international affairs and condemned his disparagement of an American Muslim couple whose son was killed while serving the U.S. Army in Iraq.
A chorus of Republicans has disavowed Trump’s criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan and the Republican nominee’s calls to temporarily ban Muslims from coming to the U.S. But Obama argued that isn’t enough.
“If you are repeatedly having to say, in very strong terms, that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?” Obama asked during a White House news conference. “What does this say about your party that this is your standard-bearer?” No prominent Republican lawmaker responded to Obama’s challenge.
Instead, it was Trump stunningly withholding his support from top GOP lawmakers, including House Speaker Paul Ryan. In an affront to his party’s top elected official, Trump told The Washington Post he wasn’t “quite there yet” on an endorsement for Ryan in his primary next week.
Trump’s refusal to back Ryan exposed anew the deep divisions within the GOP and underscored that the businessman rarely plays by the traditional political playbook. Ryan has been among those urging Republicans to rally around Trump, despite concerns about his candidacy.
Ryan’s campaign said, “Neither Speaker Ryan nor anyone on his team has ever asked for Donald Trump’s endorsement. And we are confident in a victory next week regardless.”
Trump also said he was not supporting Sen. John McCain in his primary in Arizona, and he dismissed Sen. Kelly Ayotte as a weak and disloyal leader in New Hampshire.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton sees those GOP concerns about Trump as an opportunity to reach out to party moderates — particularly women — who may be so upset by the nominee that they’re willing to look past policy differences and questions about Clinton’s character.
One of those Republicans came around to Clinton’s side Tuesday. Hewlett-Packard executive Meg Whitman, a prominent GOP fundraiser and donor, endorsed Clinton and said, “Donald Trump’s demagoguery has undermined the fabric of our national character.”
Obama — who is enjoying heightened popularity in his eighth and final year in office — plans to campaign robustly for Clinton through Election Day. He and first lady Michelle Obama spoke at last week’s Democratic convention in Philadelphia.
The Khans also appeared at the convention, with Khizr Khan telling the story of his son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who was posthumously awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart after his death in 2004. Khan criticized Trump’s position on Muslims and asked whether the real estate mogul had read the Constitution.
For most politicians, tangling with a bereaved military family would be out of bounds. But Trump dove in, questioning why Ghazala Khan did not speak, implying her religion prevented her from doing so, and saying he was “viciously attacked” by Khizr Khan.
Trump’s criticism was part of a familiar pattern: He can’t let go of a perceived slight, no matter the potential damage to his presidential campaign or political reputation.
Those who have worked with him say that in private meetings he can often appear amenable to putting a controversy aside. But the businessman can quickly be drawn back in by an interview, especially if he believes he’s already answered a question, or if he grows irritated by commentary on cable television.
Trump’s unwillingness to let the matter subside sparked outrage Monday from several 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.” Rep. Mike Coffman, a vulnerable Republican in a competitive Colorado district, said he was “deeply offended when Donald Trump fails to honor the sacrifices of all of our brave soldiers who were lost in that war.” Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt said the Khans “deserve to be heard and respected.”
Obama argued those denunciations “ring hollow” as long as Republicans continue to back Trump in the White House race.
Trump’s response? On Twitter, he said, “President Obama will go down as perhaps one of the worst president in the history of the United States!”
Sen. Mark Kirk, who is facing a tough re-election fight in Illinois, rescinded his endorsement of Trump in June after the GOP nominee criticized an American-born judge’s Mexican heritage. Others, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Ryan, have broken with the nominee on individual issues but continue to back his candidacy.
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Agree with Obama. Trump is in no way ready to be president. He is a silly, entertaining man. Republicans should denounce him and run their own candidate. He is not conservative in any way. Enough of the big time joke on the public. Send this fool packing.
For once, I agree with allie. Who says President Obama can’t unite the country?
Agree with Mr Trump. Obama is the worst President ever.
You would as a typical republican socialist, I would expect nothing else from you. How much did you suck off the government today? Just curious.
It’s not about me. sucka
“Curious” isn’t the word for it.
D*mned peculiar is more like it.
Yes it is sarge. You are the typical hypocrite who complains about democrats but then has been sponging off the government for decades. Just remember your income has come from public taxes.
Calling Obama the worst president ever just also shows that you have a very short memory. Obama has been one of the better presidents during my life time. But I guess you prefer a stock market plunging to one that is growing? An economy that is contracting to one that is growing? Wake up.
“Curiosity killed the cat”
Boots. Are you eight years old? If so, Obama has been the best President in your lifetime.
I’m not a republican and I have major issues with Trump, to the point where I don’t think I can cast a vote for him, but I think this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Obama was not even close to being ready for the job as president and IMO may go down as one of the worse presidents in history. I also have little doubt that, if Hillary were the republican nominee, Obama would be critical of her. IMO she is as bad or worse than Trump.
Boots, former President Jimmy Carter also agrees he was replaced by Obama as the worst president ever.
Odumbo only needs to look in the mirror to see an incompetent useless President.
Paul you are correct. If HE thinks Trump is unprepared to be President he should look at his resume’ Look at what Trump has accomplished–sure he steps on feet, Obama usually yells FOUR and plays through–to be Pres you have to make tough decisions. What decisions did Barry make before he became Pres?????
Fortunately the Donald will not be our next president. But under Obama the economy has recovered from the worst recession since the great depression. A Trump presidency would put us back into the worst depression ever.
boots guy, our economy grew 1% last year, yes 1%. All the bs about worst recession since the great depression is a dem talking point passed on by fools. Read a little and find facts before posting rubbish talking points. 1.2 percent increase facts:
https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=US+Economy+Growth+2016&qpvt=us+economy+growth+2016&FORM=EWRE
read it, learn and stop the idolatry.
Heads roll at DNC: 3 top officials out after email hack.
Corruption, deceit, bias, smears. A lot to be ashamed.
And the national debt has almost doubled from $10 trillion to over $18 trillion. And before anybody says it was Bush’s fault, look at the purposeful Democratic-led deregulation that occurred in the late 90’s under Clinton that allowed for the explosion of sub-primes to feed Dick Schumer’s and Barney Frank’s desire for everyone to own a house in the early part of the first decade, even if they couldn’t afford it.
Oh oh Gold up and stock market down today. The tide is turning. Trump’s gold looking good.
AllDunn, you need to look at the facts. Stock market today is around 18,000 instead of being under 7000. Obama has not been perfect but he had to fight idiotic republicans who pledge to make him a one term president with no accomplishments. Fortunately they failed. You should look at the growth we had under the prior republican president. Started with a surplus, left with the country with a trillion dollar budget deficit. Under Obama this deficit has been cut by close to two thirds.
That’s a joke right? Aside from declaring bankruptcy multiple times to profit off of the destruction of others what has he accomplished? He feels that he is the greatest person who ever lived and would rather do away with the legislative and judicial branches. Heil Trump.
Agree. Pot calling the kettle black.
Wow where is the coverage in SA…http://www.jta.org/2016/08/02/news-opinion/politics/3-dnc-staffers-in-leaked-bernie-exchange-resignA…Three high-ranking staffers at the Democratic National Committee have resigned amid the email controversy that forced their boss, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, to resign last week.
Chief executive Amy Dacey, Chief Financial Officer Brad Marshall and Communications Director Luis Miranda will leave later this week, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
The three were involved in one of the most controversial email exchanges that was hacked and leaked days before the Democratic National Convention. In it, Marshall noted, erroneously, that then-Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is an atheist and suggested that this information could be used to undermine his campaign among religious voters.
What has Obama or the First Lady sacrificed for America? America.
Has Obama read the Constitution? Perhaps but he doesn’t seem to understand it.
I have a pocket version of the Constitution I can lend him.
President Obama taught US Constitutional law at the Harvard Law School so yes, he has read the constitution and he will be recorded in history as one of our best Presidents. You, on the other hand will never amount to spit.
He may have read it but does he understand it? The Supreme Court doesn’t seem to think so.
Les, he indeed has great fluency with the document. Which then begs the question, have you ever read the entire document–I mean between your daily readings of Mein Kampf?
I would love to be awarded a “Letter or marque and reprisal” but I will probably get by just fine without ever having to exercise my rights under the Third Amendment.
Whoops, clumsy fingers “Letter of marque..”
Ikefromeli, you do have a sense of humor. You are almost bearable.
Obama was never a professor; he was a lecturer. He did not have the qualifications to be a professor. Obama never published a single law paper. He was hired by the University of Chicago when they learned he had been given a book contract on race and law directly after graduating from Harvard. There was no book – just the contract, which he later reneged on. This is not the normal level of accomplishment for a University of Chicago professor or even lecturer.
Les, wrong again. Man, Les, you are going to have to start paying me tuition for all ike, I drop on you daily. I am unsure what the going rate is for an adult bordering idiocy.
Back to the topic at hand, here is the OFFICIAL statement from the u of Chicago Law School:
Statement Regarding Barack Obama
The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as “Senior Lecturer.”
From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School’s Senior Lecturers has high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, which is a full professorship, but he declined.
“He is a silly, entertaining man”
The profundity of your observations continues to amaze me.
Who on the republican side is conservative? Ted (lying) Cruz? Fact is republicans need to find their way back to believing in republican values. Today they are little more than socIalists for the rich. A real pity.
What difference does it make? Values? The only value HiLIARy has is her pants suits and rapidly depreciating.
Well that sure beats a party that believes the way to balance the budget is to reduce revenue and increase wasteful government spending. Has been so successful. lol
If Republicans are stupid enough to take YOUR advice, they deserve the wretched consequences that will surely befall them
I have to agree although I did not vote or care for Obama. The Republican party has shot themselves in the you know what by endorsing this Idiot. We will have 8 years of another Clinton I just hope we don’t loose the congress and house to the D party as well.
Allie the troll is back! Seeing that Barry is a traitor to the United States it not surprising it would say that.
Has there been a roll call on what Republicans are for Trump and who’s against? That would make an interesting story. Or are they afraid to come out and say anything fearing losing their seats?
Has there been a roll call on what Democrats are for HiLIARy and who’s against? That would make an interesting story. Or are they afraid to come out and say anything fearing losing their seats? Bernie backers having been betrayed with the Big Fix are alive and well. Feel the Bern..
For those who admire Trump for being a “successful businessman,” keep in mind that:
He’s an entrepreneur/marketing-minded businessman, not a CEO type. Being POTUS is like being the CEO of the biggest corporation in the world.
He’s also not a finance or economy-capable thinker. He has ZERO understanding, NO plan at all on how he’ll “fix the economy.”
“I’m the only one who created thousands of jobs” means NOTHING. Like any businessman, when he starts a new venture, obviously people need to be brought in to labor for his profit. He’s never altered the economy of the country in a way to lower the unemployment rate.
Trump University was a sham. Even the user reviews are worthless, as the students were pressured into writing glowing reviews. The system was “rigged.” Correct?
Real, smart billionaires (Buffet, Cuban, Bloomberg) all agree that Trump is a “jagoff.”
Most of his endeavors incorporated debt financing and junk bonds. He is not respected by Wall Street or the folks he so likes to conflate with billionaires–it is why folks like Gates, Bloomberg, Zuckerberg, Buffett and Cuban all clearly repudiate him. They think he is just horrible.
Once again, the pot calling the kettle black. OnebigAssMistakeAmerica has been the worst president we’ve ever had. The very fact that he backs a felon, says it all.
Your tag is very appropriate. peanutgallery
Historical trivia: The “Peanut Gallery” was the audience of enthusiastic children who cheered the antics of Howdy Doody, Buffalo Bob, and Mayor Phineas T. Bluster on the classic 1950s TV show “Howdy Doody.” plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Obama just can’t control himself, he has to go all over the globe to embarrass America. His lame endorsements and constant campaigning only demean his already discredited legacy only the Grubered love. The worst president in American history just took America’s prestige down another notch with this political pitch.
President Obama’s approval rating is at 52% so it is obvious you are in the minority. Aloha Oe to the Chump.
Maipono, agree with your post. Hawaii born President Obama has not been presidential during the 2016 presidential campaign. It must be, he has finally realized he is a failed President. It’s a very sorry sight to see him making comments about the GOP candidate in an American election process. Half of America want Mr. Trump to be President.
More like 34% of America….huge difference.
Ikefromeli, why do all democrats have a credibility problem?
Probably because of the low IQ and education level of the bulk of the R party.
Trump should wear the scorn of the current classless clueless occupant of the White House as a badge of honor.
In politics it is very important to make the RIGHT enemies and said occupant just cannot resist showing what a tasteless, tacky ill bred mutt he is.
Trump has him (and his lapdog Hillary) right where he wants them.
Yes, and that is 15 points behind and counting.
Today, Joe Scarborough called Trump “unhinged” and said, “It’s pretty remarkable. I fielded calls all day yesterday from conservatives, from Republicans, from officials, from people that the media would call right-wing bloggers, from whatever you’d call them, and everybody was asking me about his mental health. But it was all everybody was talking about yesterday. It’s not like there was talking points shot that were out by the DNC or by anybody else. Everybody was talking about his mental health yesterday. Everybody was calling me saying ‘What’s happening to him? What is wrong with him?’”
What has Obama or the First Lady sacrificed for America? America.
Has Obama read the Constitution? Perhaps but he doesn’t seem to understand it.
I have a pocket version of the Constitution I can lend him.
Obama was a professor of Constitutional law at the University of Chicago law school for 12 years. Trump thinks there are 12 Articles in the Constitution.
and Obama thinks there are 57 states.
One would think a guy would know the Constution after 12 years. He must not be to bright. But answer the first question.
Obama was never a professor; he was a lecturer. He did not have the qualifications to be a professor. Obama never published a single law paper. He was hired by the University of Chicago when they learned he had been given a book contract on race and law directly after graduating from Harvard. There was no book – just the contract, which he later reneged on. This is not the normal level of accomplishment for a University of Chicago professor or even lecturer.
There seems to be some daylight on what he was.
Les, wrong again. Man, Les, you are going to have to start paying me tuition for all ike, I drop on you daily. I am unsure what the going rate is for an adult bordering idiocy.
Back to the topic at hand, here is the OFFICIAL statement from the u of Chicago Law School:
Statement Regarding Barack Obama
The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as “Senior Lecturer.”
From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School’s Senior Lecturers has high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, which is a full professorship, but he declined.
Re: Ike’s statement
“Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors,”
Perhaps by Ike, but as far as I could find out, not by the University of Chicago.
University Statute 11.1 defines the members of the university faculties. It consists of those with Professor titles plus Instructors. That’s it.
Statute 11. 2 states:
” The University also makes academic appointments that are not Faculty appointments”
The list of positions that are not faculty appointments, includes Lecturers and Senior Lecturers. No special distinction is given for Senior Lecturer in this Statute. Both are included with Research Associates in subsection 11.2.4.
As for Ike’s description of why someone is a Lecturer and not a Professor, the idea that it it is because they have busy careers and do not have time to teach full time appears to be misleading. It may be true that they might not have time to teach full time but this is not would prevent them from being a faculty member. It is their (lack of) scholarly actives that would prevent this from happening.
In fact, (Senior) Lecturers often have heavier teaching loads than faculty members, so becoming a faculty member would decrease this load, not increase it.
He thinks of the Constitution as an annoying obstacle to the power he seeks to expand and wield like a club.
More than two centuries ago, the Founders had this clown’s number which is why they built in so many check and balance safeguards.
We all regret Mr. Khan’s loss, but perhaps it is Mr. Khan that needs to read the constitution.
Mr. Khan has constitutional rights as a legal resident/citizen. Muslims or anyone else who are not residents do not.
Trump is referring to Muslims who are not residents or citizens of this country.
In suggesting that he would, as President, enforce a temporary ban on their travel he is enforcing the constitution.
He would be fulfilling his role as President to protect the country’s citizens.
Perhaps you should re-read the Constitution, particularly the 14th Amendment, Section One, which says:
“No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Read the last clause of that sentence a couple of times. Everyone within the jurisdiction of the United States, including illegal immigrants, has Constitutional rights.
Exactly. As your namesake goes, crickets…..awkward silence.
BS and IF, 14th states: “Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, are citizens of the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” and does not include Illegal Immigrants. Typical Progressive Liberals attempting to read something in the U.S. Constitution that does not exist.
kuroiwaj: Actually, the Equal Protection Clause does exist. Although conservatives love to pull quotes out of context or read only the parts of the Constitution that they like (or, in the case of Trump, cite Articles that don’t exist), I suggest you re-read Section One in its entirety. When you’ve finished, here’s an assignment: read the Bolling V. Sharpe (1954) decision.
Kuro and Crickets just got put in their place as Undocumented immigrants DO have legal rights under the U.S. Constitution and federal statute. As far back as 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that: “The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution is not confined to the protection of citizens.
“Kuro and Crickets just got put in their place as Undocumented immigrants DO have legal rights under the U.S. Constitution”
BS/Ike, you are objecting to a modified form of my statement, one which allows you to make your point, but which is false.
It was my impression that Mr. Khan was either a legal resident or a citizen. In referring to others, I did not use the “legal” qualification.
I have repeated it below, with the relevant sections in single quotes.
Mr. Khan has constitutional rights as a legal resident/citizen. Muslims or anyone else ‘who are not residents’ do not.
Trump is referring to Muslims who are ‘not residents or citizens’ of this country.
In suggesting that he would, as President, enforce a temporary ban on their travel he is enforcing the constitution.
He would be fulfilling his role as President to protect the country’s citizens.
“As your namesake goes, crickets…..awkward silence”
Ike, you are beginning to sound distinctly Trumpish!
What has Obama or the First Lady sacrificed for America? America.
Has Obama read the Constitution? Perhaps but he doesn’t seem to understand it.
I have a pocket version of the Constitution I can lend him.
les, is that a trick question?
They may have sacrificed their medical plan?? LOL.
Barack, you are the big mistake.
Heads roll at DNC: 3 top officials out after email hack
That’s how the Democrats roll. Rigged elections. Corrupt officials. Smears on Trump. Dirty politics. It trickles down to their misguided faithful. Sad.
Its the republicans who rig elections. If they allow people to vote then they miscount the ballots. When it comes to corruption, nothing can compare with republicans. Even when considering the Donald and Hillary, I would prefer someone who broke some bureaucratic rule than ripping people off. (Trump U)
As some wag once noted, “My grandmother voted a straight GOP ticket until the day she died. After that she voted for Democrats.”
I seen them at Diamond Head Memorial taking names off of tombstones.
Trump U was a great course. You can lead a donkey to the water but if the ass can’t drink well, what can I say. A lot of Bernie supporters maxed out their credit cards, pawned household possessions, went without food and shelter just so they could scrape up $27 to send him for his campaign. No guarantees.
At least Trump U. offered a refund.
I don’t think that Obama is in a position to suggest whether someone is “fit” to be President as throughout his presidency, many have called his actions/words/ideologies as an overstretch of the office and he has needed to be corrected.
And so it begins–a formal repudiation of Donald by Rs:
Retiring Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.) on Tuesday announced he will vote for Hillary Clinton in November because Donald Trump is “unfit to serve our party and cannot lead this country.”
The three-term congressman, who represents New York’s 22nd Congressional District, is the first Republican member of Congress to announce he will vote for the former secretary of state. He previously said he could never support the GOP nominee, putting him among several conservative and establishment holdouts known as the #NeverTrump movement.
Trump’s repeated Islamophobic attacks on the parents of a slain American war hero who appeared at the Democratic convention last week was the deciding factor.
“In his latest foray of insults, Mr. Trump has attacked the parents of a slain U.S. soldier. Where do we draw the line?” Hanna asked in an article that the news outlet Syracuse.com published Tuesday. “I thought it would have been when he alleged that U.S. Sen. John McCain was not a war hero because he was caught. Or the countless other insults he’s proudly lobbed from behind the Republican presidential podium. For me, it is not enough to simply denounce his comments: He is unfit to serve our party and cannot lead this country.”
The pot calling the kettle black!
“Heightened popularity” what a crock slant by the writer. I will admit he did a lot of things more than any president.
Oops meant did more things that damaged america
Thanks for the correction.
Just when it seems that Donald Trump could not display more ignorance and bad judgment or less of a moral compass, he comes up with another ignominy or two. This weekend he denigrated the parents of a fallen American military hero and suggested that if elected he might recognize Russia’s claims to Ukraine and end sanctions.
Mr. Trump’s divisive views helped him capture the Republican presidential nomination. And even as he creates a political whirlwind with each utterance, leading members of his own party haven’t the spine to rescind their support. Sure, some have come out with strong criticisms, but none have gone far enough. Repudiation of his candidacy is the only principled response.
On Sunday on ABC, Mr. Trump’s comments on Ukraine demonstrated even less knowledge about world affairs than suspected. His remarks also reinforced suspicions that he is sympathetic toward Vladimir Putin, Russia’s authoritarian, anti-Western president.
Mr. Trump seemed confused about Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and its efforts to wrest other parts of the country from Ukraine’s control. “He’s not going into Ukraine, O.K., just so you understand,” Mr. Trump said, apparently unaware that Mr. Putin sent troops there two years ago and that the international community still considers Crimea to be part of Ukraine. Russian troops have been seen, and sometimes killed, in Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine where an insurgency is fighting the Ukrainian government.
The United States and the European Union have condemned the land grab, which is at odds with post-Cold War commitments, and imposed sanctions that Mr. Putin is desperate to have lifted. Mr. Trump’s willingness to support Mr. Putin’s claim on Crimea and other parts of Ukraine, coupled with his lack of commitment to NATO, is good reason for Europe to fear for the future of the alliance if he becomes president.
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There are other reasons to wonder about Mr. Trump’s friendly view of Mr. Putin. His campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was a political consultant for the pro-Russia political party in Ukraine and for a former president, Viktor Yanukovych, who was forced out of office by anti-Russian forces in 2014. Also, as Mr. Trump acknowledged, his supporters watered down language in the Republican Party platform to omit support for sending weapons to Ukraine.
Mr. Trump’s derision of the parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim American who was awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart after he was killed in Iraq by a suicide bomber, was deplorable and mystifying. Why would a presidential candidate mock the parents of a soldier who died in combat?
At last week’s Democratic convention, Captain Khan’s father, Khizr Khan, with his wife, Ghazala Khan, by his side, criticized Mr. Trump for proposing to ban Muslim immigration to the United States and accused him of having made no sacrifices for his country. Over the weekend, Mr. Trump implied that Mrs. Khan did not speak at the convention because her religion did not allow it, and he equated his “sacrifices” as a businessman to those of the grieving parents. On Monday, Mr. Trump kept at it, complaining on Twitter that Mr. Khan “viciously attacked” him.
Some Republicans, like the House speaker, Paul Ryan; the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell; and Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire released statements defending the Khans. Yet they still refuse to back off their support for Mr. Trump.
Few carry as much weight on military matters as Senator John McCain of Arizona, himself a decorated hero of the Vietnam War, who issued a statement Monday sharply criticizing Mr. Trump, saying, “It is time for Donald Trump to set the example for our country and the future of the Republican Party.”
It’s hard to imagine, a year into the campaign, that Mr. Trump could ever set such an example. The truth is, it’s time for Mr. McCain and other Republican leaders to set an example for their party by withdrawing support for Mr. Trump.
We know all about the future President, Any news on HiLIARy?…Lawyers for Hillary Clinton say her recent comment that someone “recommended” she use a private email system while secretary of state is no reason to subject her to a sworn deposition in a pending federal lawsuit about State Department records. Her defense lawyers are making millions off the Clintons/Clinton Foundation.
In Webster, next to “megaliomaniac” is a picture of Trump. Look at the way he insults the lead GOP leaders. He is a Darth Vader.
Ikefromeli, why are you so concerned about Trump. Are you ok?
And, you don’t have to write a book every time you make a comment.
Unlike you, I want to communicate in complete sentences and thoughts that are both explained and are supported by data and facts.
This is an interesting presidential election. On both sides, the better candidate was not nominated. Bernie for the Democrats, and any other candidate of the Republican side.
The DNC is fortunate they have the press in their pockets. From the Party to the President to the Candidate there are more questions than answers.
Didn’t Trump got to be the Republican nominee via the normal process? If he is as bad as his opponents claimed and Ms. Clinton is the lady in shining armor, so why does the President need to challenge the GOP to drop their support? Two wrongs does not make it right! Gary Johnson, the underdog in the race to the White House, can easily become the turtle, of the turtle vs the hare, story, and will take home the trophy!!
he is saying that cause he gone beat corrupt hillary
An initial set of post-convention polls out this week shows a sudden swing toward the newly minted Democratic presidential nominee and suggests Clinton begins the three-month sprint to the general election with a consistent — but not insurmountable — advantage.
Five new public surveys, each conducted over the weekend following Democrats’ national party convention, give Clinton a lead ranging from 3 to 9 points. Four of the five pollsters point to a clear Clinton bump, having found Trump ahead or down by only a single point the week before.
What’s also clear is that the bump exceeds the rise in support for Trump after his convention the week prior. While Trump called his bounce “the biggest bump in the history of conventions,” the best poll for him showed his support ticking up 6 points, while other polls showed no change or a nominal Trump boost.
Clinton’s bounce appears to be larger. She rose 7 points in her best poll, and 3 or 4 points in the other three polls for which there’s a direct comparison after Trump’s convention but before Clinton officially earned her party’s nomination in Philadelphia.
Inkfromeli, cite the polls so I can fact check.
Trump News Network has him 15%.
This is from politico.com
A mainstream polling website, not like the crazy biased cites you promote.
Hussein is fit to be president? And who is the Muslim?
Gotta love that smirk; he’s thinking about his next Hawaii vacation.
Donald Trump, ” If I were president, his son wouldn’t have died, because I wouldn’t have been in the war, if I was president back then.” A Republican was.
George Walker Bush served as the forty-third President of the United States between January 20, 2001 and January 20, 2009, So if Trump wants to blame anyone for the Iraq War, he need to point to the President that was in office that initiated the war and kept the U.S. in the war until he left office in January 2009 (George W. Bush). The Iraq War began in March 2008 and lasted till December 2011. The withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq began in December 2007 and was completed by December 2011, bringing an end to the Iraq War.
correction. The Iraq War began in March 2003.
Correction. The Iraq war did not end in December 2011. The US retreat from Iraq may have ended US military involvement in ground operations, but the enemy we were fighting did not agree to end it and has continued to this day to wage war against us wherever it can.
When more comes out about Hillary’s deceit its going to be like the movie Wag the dog. Libya will get the heck bombed out by Obama and his party will do anything to fool the US voters into believing that Hillary is the best choice. I’ll choose the exorcist over Hillary the Devil.
Reported on Hufginton Post: “Just days before Republicans adopted a new, more Russia-friendly plank into their party platform, one of Donald Trump’s top advisers [Carter Page] visited Moscow in July to deliver speeches criticizing decades of U.S. foreign policy.”
This is a laughable moment “The Inexperience President” saying that Donald is unfit to be president. OMG! I’m like Hello? I get what Donald was saying about the wife of that slain soldier..He’s right the Muslims/Sharia law who prohibits women from speaking their mind. Although, She claims that she was still grieving and was very emotional of the lost of her son who died in, what was it/2004?
He was merely making a point our Women voters. And the MSM just ran away with this story! How typical.
Imagine the most inexperience,community organizing president ,who never ran anything or business in his whole life! Who won the presidency based on the “Race card”! And yet has the audacity to say that Donald is “Unfit to be the POTUS: This is Rich man,real rich….. especially coming from the person who caused the most chaos in the world of this 21st century ?
I heard the TTP speech and said to myself,boy, that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore must think we are all idiots. He even mention something about our politics ,that this was not the forum for this disccusion. Everybody/MSM talks about Trump stepping into it, I think Barry just did the same today.We really must look like fools to the rest of the world. IMUA
Why am I not surprsied? Censorship. Good one SA
Jennifer Rubin, ultra-conservative Washington Post columnist wrote today, “Trump is so defective as a person as to make any agenda impossible to carry out. The Khan episode, like the Judge Gonzalo Curiel episode, is not about a policy or position; it’s about Trump’s character. In saying that doesn’t matter — and only the likelihood of achieving a plank of his platform does — Ryan makes a fundamental error. By repudiating all of the public virtues needed, whatever your agenda, Trump would lay waste to democratic governance itself. When Trump begins telling us the election itself is “rigged” — his built-in excuse for losing — he is undermining the legitimacy of our democratic process. You would think that at least should rouse Republican leaders.”
Indeed. I have actually worked for republicans in the US Senate, and Trump, has substituted divergent public policy perspectives, with a thin-skin, in which personal attacks are a daily event, and without an iota of evidence that he wants to delve into the serious issues of our country and apply himself. It is entirely sad for the R party.
Today, many in house leadership positions said that an entire group of house representatives are holding on by a bear thread in their support for Trump. Expect an avalanche in the coming days and weeks, if Trump continues down this volatile path.
Ike, You are a comedian. Trump did not buckle under. People will respect his intestinal fortitude. He’s showing leadership. Not like Obama and Crooked Hillary.
As soon as he becomes POTUS he’ll show the American people real leadership. So far Trump and Sanders have been more right than Crooked Hillary. Obama said he’s for TPP. I wonder where Crooked Hillary will be.
Meg Whitman just turned tonight as well as Chris Christies top policy aide as well. He well may not buckle, as you say, but he will certainly lose more and more top Rs, and in the process, the election.
Where is the media outrage against Hillary for saying the next of kin of Americans killed in Benghazi are lying about her telling them the Benghazi attack was caused by a movie trailer?
Keep up with that. It’s been a winner for you so far.
BENGHAZI—Hillary lied and four men died. Where’s Vince Foster?
Chris Wallace made a liar out of her on Sunday. 4 Pinocchios.
No matter what Trump’s supporters say at this point, he’s going to lose and badly. The more humiliating the loss, the better.
He’s going to claim that the election is “rigged” of course – he’s already started laying that carpet of worthless nonsense – but thankfully, his loss is guaranteed.
He’s done.
Obama, has been the most visible President since the advent of television and the internet. He is making so much public appearances and speech making, one has to wonder when does he roll up his sleeves to do work for the good of the American people.
The economy has little affect on who is the president. The biggest affect is the way the central banks have open the spigot to print money and put America more into debt. The scam of having the tax payers of America to bail out the big banks who were to big to fail. Meaning all who is connected with the banking system got bailed out and did not lose any money except a few like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. Due to this the next downturn will be the biggest and worst recession America will face, providing we are still a nation.
Democrats or republicans it does not matter, what does matter is which politicians in the U.S. are not globalist. Trump is not one and hopefully they do not turn him to become one. The Bush family is part of the globalist regime and they have made Obama one. Guess what Hillary is the one the globalist want being she is one herself. If the globalist believe she will not have a chance to win you may see some national emergency emerge keeping Obama in office. Or if they feel this is not the time to have her be their puppet you can be sure they themselves will make sure she does not become president. Things are starting to unfold that way with to major media outlets, CNN and the Washington Post insinuating negatives on Clinton that they did not do before this past week.
The British and Putin do not want the globalist to take over the world and have one government one currency. I guess they believe having their own sovereignty is better. Is having a one world government a good thing or a bad thing? Who knows. One thing is for certain America is losing its check and balance and the right to apprehend the crooked lying people, who are slowly taking our freedom away. A sad day when the FBI and the DOJ are afraid to do their job.
It’s remarkable than an adult actually wrote this. Really remarkable.
If Donald Trump wins the Presidency, many hope they will take this Liberal Muslim Democratic President Barack Hussein Obama to the Federal Court for some prison time. During his evil reign, this muslim think he is a dictator by passing the U.S. Constitution and signing his executive orders to get his will done.
History will tell that Barack Hussien Obama was the worst U.S. President in American history.
Take him to the federal court for some prison time? Good grief. You are one sad case. Sad and pathetic. Really, really pathetic.
“I love the poorly educated!” Go Trump!
Spoken like a true Liberal. Barack Hussein Obama needs to retire now and go home to Chicago or Kenya. Sick and pathetic? Both labels fit this muslim President who thinks his a dictator..
In fact if Donald Trump gets this Presidency, not only take Obama to Federal court but also his clone, Hillary Clinton for lying to Congress and her criminal act of her email handling.
what trump should have done is bring out the true copy of the constitution and say our constitution says it is against the law for illegals to come into this country illegally, since mr. kahn is a immigration lawyer from new York who wants all the 56000 Syrians to come into this country and the illegals that are already here we will be attacked like france and Germany that’s why mr. kahn is phony, that’s what the t.v. and media won’t tell you, they want you to be brainwashed in thinking the media way, so it was nothing but a photo-op for the Hillary campaign.
Let’s see how many lies are in this one comment ….. It’s going to take a while to count!
theres no lies did you not know that mr. kahn is a immigration lawyer from new York, who is liberal with a mental disorder. you better start checking the facts because what I say is true.
I know. The guy is no hero. He’s on the take. He’s tarnishing his son’s heroic sacrifice for cash. This whole thing stinks. His wife should get an academy award. What a performance.
I’m glad Trump is going to be the POTUS. He sticks to his 2nd amendment, guns at the ready. He showed a lot of courage. Obama and Crooked Hillary would try and lie their way out. Like Benghazi.
lespark – You continue to soil yourself by smearing a Gold Star family.
There is nothing below you. Nothing.
You will say anything, and fabricate any lie, to further the candidacy of someone who is obviously and clearly mentally ill.
There is something below him, but we are not suppose to type the four letter word for fecal matter her.
She’ll say anything and change nothing. Obama 2008.
Why did he appoint Crooked Hillary Secretary of State. Biggest mistake he ever made. Bad judge of character? He knew that.
I agree, Obama is quite possibly, the worst American President in History. His highness can’t seem to keep his nose out of this election. It is really unbecoming of him to step in and try to bolster Hillary’s pathetic campaign. ABC 2016