Obama Calls On Republicans To Reject ‘Unfit’ Trump

President Barack Obama of the United States today called on Republicans to reject Donald Trump in some of his strongest comments yet about the party’s White House nominee, saying he is “woefully unprepared” and “unfit” to be president.

“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,” Obama said of the party’s top brass including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain.

“There has to be a point in which you say, ‘This is not somebody I can support for president of the United States, even if he purports to be a member of my party.'”

Obama’s comments at a White House press conference came amid a roiling war of words between Trump and the father of a slain US soldier who rebuked him as having “sacrificed nothing.”

Trump also has come under fire for remarks in a television interview in which he appeared not to be aware of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea after its takeover from Ukraine.

“I think the Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president,” Obama said. “I said so last week. He keeps proving it.”

“The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family that made extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of our country, the fact that he doesn’t appear to have basic knowledge around critical issues in Europe, in the Middle East, in Asia means that he’s woefully unprepared to do this job.”

“There has to come a point in which you say ‘enough’,” he said, in a comment directed at Republicans.

“The alternative is the entire party and the Republican party effectively endorses and validates the positions being articulated by Mr Trump. As I said in my speech last week, I don’t think that represents the views of a whole lot of Republicans out there.”

AFP

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FG, U.S. Partner On Fair Labour Practices

Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, has said that the Federal Government would partner the United States on fair labour practices to boost international trade relations in the Nigeria.

Ngige said this when he received Mr Marlin Hardinger, the Political Officer in the U.S. Embassy, in Abuja.

The minister who released a statement through Mr Samuel Olowookere, Deputy Director, Press, Ministry of Labour and Employment, said, “We appreciate the American government for taking this step. It is pleasing to note that you are synergising with the International Labour Organisation to make this workable.

“This is really a big boost to trade not only in Nigeria, but in the entire continent of Africa.

“I have often thought of the workability of trade without productivity and its implication for a developing country like ours. The decision of your government to tie the two is re-awakening and important to us.

“Though trade relations between our two countries have receded following the decision of your country to stop the import of crude from Nigeria, we have a vast agricultural product base which can find ready market in the U.S.

“It is distressing, however, that even trade in this area is equally on downward swing,” he said.

“What we are looking for is a Nigeria that is prosperous and stable enough to remain a rallying point in the comity of nations and not necessarily a supper power.

“We will partner you in this effort,” Ngige said.

HILARY CLINTON WINS FINAL 2016 PRIMARY

 
Hillary Clinton claimed the most symbolic Democratic primary in the US capital, which leaves her with only Donald Trump standing before her and the Oval office.

 The Vermont senator won almost 79 percent of the vote against 21 percent for Bernie Sanders, with nearly all votes counted, according to reports from US networks.

 The former US First Lady, Clinton, ultimately prevailed, becoming the first female presumptive presidential nominee of any major US political party.

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