Trump is ‘unfit,’ Obama says, challenging GOP to end support

Obama questioned whether Trump would “observe basic decency” as president, argued he lacks elementary knowledge about domestic and international affairs, and condemned his disparagement of an American Muslim couple whose son was killed while serving the U.S. Army in Iraq.

A chorus of Republicans has disavowed Trump’s criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan and the Republican nominee’s calls to temporarily ban Muslims from coming to the U.S. But Obama argued that isn’t enough.

“What does this say about your party that this is your standard-bearer?” No prominent Republican lawmaker responded to Obama’s challenge.

Trump’s refusal to back Ryan exposed anew the deep divisions within the GOP and underscored that the businessman rarely plays by the traditional political playbook.

SAN DIEGO — A federal judge who has been a target of Donald Trump’s repeated scorn on Tuesday denied a media request to release videos of Trump testifying in a lawsuit about the now-defunct Trump University. .

U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel ruled that that legitimate public interest did not outweigh the potential harm the ongoing media scrutiny of the footage could do to the case.