From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
‘Stop whining,’ Obama tells Trump
Barack Obama on Tuesday tears into Donald Trump for sowing suspicion about the integrity of the US election, telling the Republican presidential nominee to “stop whining” and focus on winning votes.
Obama calls Trump’s intensifying, preemptive warnings about voter fraud “unprecedented” in modern politics. The rhetoric is not based on any evidence, Obama says, but is simply aimed at discrediting the election before the first votes are counted.
Obama to Trump: "Stop whining" https://t.co/U0Yced0fOf
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 18, 2016
“You start whining before the game’s even over?” Obama says at a White House press conference. “Then you don’t have what it takes to be in this job.”
The president also accuses Trump of showering praise and modeling his policies on Russian President Vladimir Putin to a degree that is “unprecedented in American politics.”
— AP
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