COLUMBUS, Ohio — President Barack Obama on Thursday night tore into Republican leaders for “riding this tiger” of what he repeatedly called “crazy” hoaxes and conspiracies that created the conditions for Donald Trump to become their presidential nominee—and blasted anyone now trying to distance themselves out of what he derided as political expediency.
No one who stands by Trump this year, Obama said, can claim to be serious about family values or foreign policy. And nobody can claim higher ground than Trump if they spent the last eight years pursuing an agenda he said was pure opposition, embracing a right-wing media that regularly trafficked in conspiracy theories and accepting personal attacks on him from their base.
“They stood by while this happened, and Donald Trump as he’s prone to do, he didn’t build the building himself — he just slapped his name on it and took credit for it,” Obama said.
Obama’s move mirrors the strategy that’s started bubbling up from Hillary Clinton’s campaign as she attempts to finish off a trailing Trump by re-connecting him to the Republicans she spent most of the campaign saying he wasn’t part of. Republicans are in a box, is the argument: any who supported Trump, or at least didn’t actively denounce him, deserves to go down with him.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/obama-donald-trump-rise-229780#ixzz4N41pf6wq It looks like Obama and others are shifting the attack to all Republicans who have supported Trump now or in the past.
A lifelong Democrat has managed to bamboozle ignorant Republican voters into voting for him and he's basically destroying the party. Nice job.
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