{"id":13546,"date":"2016-10-14T06:27:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T06:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=13546"},"modified":"2016-10-14T06:31:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T06:31:10","slug":"obama-says-gop-stood-by-while-donald-trump-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/obama-says-gop-stood-by-while-donald-trump-happened.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama says GOP stood by while Donald Trump happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Obama says GOP stood by while Donald Trump happened<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Obama says GOP stood by while Donald Trump happened:- President Obama railed against the Republican Party on Thursday night, mocking GOP officeholders who he says created Donald Trump but now distance themselves from him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Republicans who tolerated years of insults against the Democratic president helped create the environment in which Trump could take over the party, Obama told a crowd in Columbus, Ohio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe people who knew better didn\u2019t say anything,\u201d Obama said. \u201cThey didn\u2019t say &#8230; we can\u2019t allow our politics to descend into the gutter. They stood by while this happened.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Obama echoed the words of First Lady Michelle Obama, who said at a campaign event for Democrat Hillary Clinton earlier Thursday that Trump\u2019s words on a 2005 audio tape, in which he brags about sexually assaulting women, had &#8220;shaken me to my core.\u201d Dozens of Republicans have unendorsed or stepped away from Trump since the recording came to light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Voters shouldn\u2019t give those Republicans \u201cpoints,\u201d Obama told the crowd at the annual \u201cstate dinner\u201d of the Ohio Democratic Party. He specifically called out Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman, who is fighting off a challenge from former Democratic governor Ted Strickland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Obama repeatedly pointed to Portman as one of those Republicans who stood by while members of the party questioned Obama&#8217;s citizenship and religion, and opposed almost everything he tried to achieve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThey don\u2019t get credit for, at the very last minute, when finally the guy that they nominated \u2026 is caught on tape saying things that no decent person would even think, much less say, much less brag about.\u2026 You can\u2019t wait until that finally happens and then say, \u2018That\u2019s too much,\u2019\u201d Obama said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/politics\/trailguide\/la-na-trailguide-updates-obama-says-gop-stood-by-while-trump-1476405781-htmlstory.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/obama-says-gop-stood-by-while-donald-trump-happened.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama says GOP stood by while Donald Trump happened Obama says GOP stood by while Donald Trump happened:- President Obama railed against the Republican Party on Thursday night, mocking GOP officeholders who he says created Donald Trump but now distance themselves from him. 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