Obama says Trump will receive security briefings as required by law

Separately, Obama said his administration would follow “both the tradition and the law” in providing Trump and Clinton with classified intelligence briefings, despite calling the Republican nominee “unfit” for the presidency earlier this week.

Trump criticized Obama in an interview hours after Obama had declared at a news conference that Trump is “unfit to serve as president”. “He keeps on proving it”.

“I find Trump deeply flawed in endless ways”, Mr Hanna wrote in a newspaper editorial. Khan’s parents have launched into the forefront of the presidential race after delivering a scathing rebuke of Trump at last week’s Democratic convention.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) even suggested giving Trump “fake” intelligence briefings after Trump encouraged Russian Federation to divulge the contents of Hillary Clinton’s private emails. “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”.

At the time, George W. Bush was president, Obama was an IL state senator and Clinton was serving in the U.S. Senate for NY.

A top surrogate for Donald Trump admitted Wednesday she was wrong to say that President Barack Obama was responsible for Capt. Humayun Khan’s death.

Though he has spoken strongly against Trump’s candidacy in recent weeks, Obama said he still only had “one vote”.

Obama urged him and other leaders to withdraw support stating that there must be a point when Republicans say “enough is enough”.

Obama further asked prominent Republican members to withdraw their support for Trump.

“It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagements that probably cost his life”, Pierson said. “This isn’t a situation where you have an episodic gaffe, this is daily and weekly where they are distancing themselves from statements he’s making”. She said “absolutely”, yet also tried to reframe the debate by noting that “Donald Trump had nothing to do with this war that sent Capt. Khan over there”.

“I don’t doubt their sincerity”.

“I don’t know where Katrina gets her information”, Clovis said.

“Ultimately it’s the American people’s decision to make collectively”, he said.

Donald Trump’s comments about the family of a high ranking Muslim US soldier have attracted much criticism.

He warned that a Trump presidential election victory could herald a very strong turn to the right around the world.

He has also been condemned for backing the Russian annexation of Crimea.