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Obama delivers Trump biggest serve yet

President Obama speaks about Donald Trump during a news conference with Singapore's Prime Minister at the White House.

President Obama speaks about Donald Trump during a news conference with Singapore's Prime Minister at the White House. Photo: Getty

Outgoing President Barack Obama has issued a scathing attack on Donald Trump, calling him unfit to serve as leader of the US.

His criticism, at a news conference with Singapore’s Prime Minister, is in response to Trump’s treatment of a Muslim family whose US Army captain son was killed in Iraq.

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Obama has challenged Republican leaders to withdraw support for their “unfit” nominee.

One Republican MP in Congress has now done just that. 

Richard Hanna has become the first to break ranks with his party over the White House campaign, denouncing presidential candidate Donald Trump as unfit to lead and pledging to vote for Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

Republican Richard Hanna

Republican Richard Hanna. Photo: supplied

The New York MP cited Trump’s attacks on the Khan family, calling the candidate “deeply flawed in endless ways,” “unrepentant” and “self-involved.”

There have been a growing number of statements from Republicans and Democrats lambasting Trump for his criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, who appeared at the Democratic National Convention last week.

Trump questioned whether Mrs. Khan did not speak at the convention because she was prevented from doing so by her religion and he characterised Mr. Khan’s criticism of him as “vicious”.

Families who lose sons or daughters who serve in the US military are called Gold Star families.

Obama said of Trump: 
”The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family that had made such extraordinary sacrifices on behalf or 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.”

He has asked leading Republicans who have criticised Trump for his remarks, but who have stood by their endorsements of him, why they are still doing so.

Obama said that even if he had lost his White House races in 2008 to McCain and in 2012 to former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, he would not have doubted their abilities to lead the country.

“There has to come a point at which you say, somebody who makes those kinds of statements doesn’t have the judgment, the temperament, the understanding to occupy the most powerful position in the world,” Obama said

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