{"id":27404,"date":"2016-08-03T02:45:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T02:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/us-election-2016-trump-hits-back-at-disastrous\/"},"modified":"2016-08-03T02:45:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T02:45:35","slug":"us-election-2016-trump-hits-back-at-disastrous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/us-election-2016-trump-hits-back-at-disastrous\/","title":{"rendered":"US election 2016: Trump hits back at ‘disastrous’ Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Donald Trump has dismissed Barack Obama’s time in the White House as a “disaster” after the US president said he was not fit to succeed him.}<\/p>\n

“He’s been weak, he’s been ineffective,” Republican candidate Mr Trump said of Mr Obama in a Fox News interview on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Mr Obama has questioned why Mr Trump’s party hasn’t disowned him.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump has also turned on two senior figures in his own party who have publicly criticised him.<\/p>\n

In an interview for the Washington Post, he refused to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain, who are up for re-election in November.<\/p>\n

{{Republican donor backs Clinton}}<\/p>\n

Amid the feuding within Republican ranks, prominent party donor and fundraiser Meg Whitman has publicly endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton, saying Donald Trump’s “demagoguery” had undermined the national fabric.<\/p>\n

“To vote Republican out of party loyalty alone would be to endorse a candidacy that I believe has exploited anger, grievance, xenophobia and racial division,” she wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n

“Trump’s unsteady hand would endanger our prosperity and national security. His authoritarian character could threaten much more.”<\/p>\n

{{In other developments:}}<\/p>\n

A Reuters\/Ipsos opinion poll suggested Hillary Clinton had extended her lead over Mr Trump to eight percentage points, from six points on Friday<\/p>\n

A federal judge who has been a target of Mr Trump’s repeated scorn denied a media request to release videos of the candidate testifying in a lawsuit about the now-defunct Trump University; Mr Trump’s lawyers had argued the videos would have been used to tarnish his campaign.<\/p>\n

French President Francois Hollande joined the chorus of criticism on Tuesday, saying that Mr Trump made people “feel nauseous”.<\/p>\n

He warned that a Trump presidential election victory could herald a very strong turn to the right around the world.<\/p>\n

{{‘Look at Ukraine’}}<\/p>\n

Speaking to Fox, Mr Trump said Mr Obama had been “the worst president, maybe, in the history of our country”.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump has also been condemned for his comments that appeared to back the Russian annexation of Crimea.<\/p>\n

But he retorted: “I believe I know far more about foreign policy than he [Mr Obama] knows.<\/p>\n

“Look at Ukraine. He talks about Ukraine [and] how tough he is with Russia. In the meantime they took over Crimea.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump is under fire for attacking the parents of a dead US Muslim soldier after they criticised him at the Democratic convention last week.<\/p>\n

At the convention, Khizr Khan, whose son died while serving in Iraq, criticised Mr Trump’s plan to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the US.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump responded by attacking the couple – who are called in the US a “Gold Star” family, the term for families that have lost a close relative in war. Democratic and Republican leaders as well as veterans’ groups quickly condemned him.<\/p>\n

“The Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president and he keeps on proving it,” Mr Obama said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family that made such extraordinary sacrifices… means that he is woefully unprepared to do this job.”<\/p>\n

New York Representative Richard Hanna became the first Republican member of Congress to publicly say he would vote for Mrs Clinton.<\/p>\n

Mr Hanna said Mr Trump’s comments about the Khan family had been the deciding factor.<\/p>\n

Until recently, many Republicans opposed to Mr Trump had stopped short of supporting Mrs Clinton, saying they would vote for a third party or “write-in” candidate.<\/p>\n

{{Republicans not voting for Mr Trump}}<\/p>\n

Barbara Bush, former first lady<\/p>\n

Jeb Bush, former Florida governor, 2016 presidential candidate<\/p>\n

William Cohen, former secretary of defence<\/p>\n

Jeff Flake, Arizona senator<\/p>\n

Lindsey Graham, South Carolina senator, 2016 presidential candidate<\/p>\n

Larry Hogan, Maryland governor<\/p>\n

John Kasich, Ohio governor, 2016 presidential candidate<\/p>\n

Mark Kirk, Illinois senator<\/p>\n

Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor, 2012 Republican presidential nominee<\/p>\n

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida congresswoman<\/p>\n

Ben Sasse, Nebraska senator<\/p>\n

Republicans voting for Mrs Clinton<\/p>\n

Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of state<\/p>\n

Hank Paulson, former treasury secretary<\/p>\n

Brent Scowcroft, former national security adviser<\/p>\n

Richard Hanna, New York congressman<\/p>\n

Meg Whitman, party donor and fundraiser<\/p>\n

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