Obama: Trump “unfit” to serve

Trump later tweeted, “Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same – Nice!” Obama asked during a White House news conference.

“She is reckless with her emails, reckless with regime change, and reckless with American lives”, Trump said.

At the convention, Khizr Khan – a Muslim whose son was killed serving in the United States military in Iraq – criticised Mr Trump’s plan to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the US. He and first lady Michelle Obama spoke at last week’s Democratic convention in Philadelphia, where Khizr and Ghazala Khan also made an appearance.

President Obama, with a foreign leader standing next to him, said something unprecedented in modern elections.

The comments are the strongest yet Obama has made regarding the Republican nominee.

He included the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan or Mitch McConnell, and asked “why do you keep supporting him?”

A far cry from his daughter’s speech about the rights of mothers, Trump stopped his speech mid-sentence and told the woman, “You can get the baby out of here”. He called on GOP leadership to disavow Mr. Trump considering the increasing conservative condemnations of their nominee’s statements.

At a rally in Virginia, Trump announced that a veteran had given him his Purple Heart medal. “I know they’re going to abide by certain norms and rules and common sense, will observe basic decency”, he said, adding that he can not say the same of Trump. “And we are confident in a victory next week regardless”.

However, none of the Republican lawmakers pulled back their support of Trump’s White House campaign. John McCain just two weeks after pledging to bring the fractured GOP together at the party’s nominating convention. Kelly Ayotte as a weak and disloyal leader in New Hampshire.

The Republican nominee did not remain passive towards Obama’s “unfit to serve” statements.

One of those Republicans came around to Clinton’s side Tuesday.

Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton, his one-time secretary of state, had “destabilised the Middle East” while putting the “country at risk” with Mrs Clinton’s use of a private email server, he said.

“Stop thinking about Hillary, stop thiinking about Obama and whoever Khan is, and start proposing solutions to America”, former California GOP chairman Tom Del Beccaro said.

Khan, during last week’s Democratic National Convention, blasted Trump for his divisive remarks and proposal to temporary ban Muslims entering the country and divisive tone.

A recent compilation of insults the billionaire dished out on Twitter alone includes more than 250 targets, mostly political rivals and USA media outlets, but also spanning from a podium in the Oval office to Germany to actress Whoopi Goldberg.

The president also noted that Trump has made plenty of gaffes and offensive remarks while on the campaign trail.

“It was such an honor”, Trump said. But the businessman can quickly be drawn back in by an interview, especially if he believes he’s already answered the question, or if he grows irritated by commentary on cable television.

Trump’s unwillingness to let the matter subside sparked outrage on Monday from a chorus of Republicans. “I think that the Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president”. Missouri Senator Roy Blunt said the Khans “deserve to be heard and respected”.

“The fact that it has not yet happened makes some of these denunciations ring hollow”.