Also as reported
by the BBC, among who did not find such remarks funny is incumbent President of
the United States, Barack Obama who as then went ahead to blast Donald Trump
based on his earlier remarks that women ‘would be intolerable even for someone
applying for a job at a 7-Eleven convenience store’ as a result Obama while
speaking at a rally supporting Hillary Clinton urged the republicans to
officially withdraw their endorsements from Trump who has also accused them,
the republicans as ‘disloyal’ with direct scornful remarks at Paul Ryan, House
Speaker whom he described as a "weak and ineffective" leader.
He said: "You
don't have to be a husband or a father to say that's not right. You just have
to be a decent human being."
Mr Obama
questioned how senior Republican politicians could still want Mr Trump to be
president.
"The fact is
that now you've got people saying: 'We strongly disagree, we really
disapprove... but we're still endorsing him.' They still think he should be
president, that doesn't make sense to me," he told the crowd.
Mr Obama was
interrupted several times by anti-Clinton campaigners but seemed unfazed,
saying: "This is democracy at work. This is great."
Thousands waited
for more than six hours to hear Barack Obama speak in what could very well be
his last visit to the battleground state as president.
The sun was out,
and so were the hecklers. The first two
interrupted the president early in his address. Mr Obama, seemingly unfazed by it
all, waited for the crowd to finish their booing before telling the hecklers
with a wry grin to "get their own rally".
It wasn't long
before Mr Obama was interrupted again. This time, the heckler was further back
in the crowd. The man walked straight past us as he left, wearing a T-shirt
declaring "Hillary for prison 2016".
In the third and
final interruption, a man entered the cordoned-off area, screamed something at
the president and tore a Clinton-Kaine campaign sign in two.
The man was
escorted away and President Obama carried on smoothly, handling it all with
good humour. The Greensboro crowd seemed to appreciate the laugh, in a campaign
that's turned decidedly nasty.
In another development, Hillary
Clinton's Campaign Chairman John Podesta has said that Russia was behind an
apparent hacking of his emails and may have been colluding with the Trump
campaign.
He
said on Tuesday that the FBI was investigating the hacking of the emails that
were published by WikiLeaks.
The 2005 video
released on Friday revealed Mr Trump describing how he had sought to have sex
with a married woman and making other sexually aggressive comments about women.
On Monday, Mr Ryan
said he would not defend Mr Trump over the remarks.
He told fellow
House Republicans he would instead focus on congressional elections to ensure
Republicans could maintain legislative control.
Mr Trump fired
back in a string of tweets, saying the "shackles" had been removed,
allowing him to "fight for America the way I want to". He said he
neither wanted nor needed Mr Ryan's support.
Mr
Trump said "disloyal" Republicans "come at you from all sides.
They don't know how to win - I will teach them!"
He attacked Senator
John McCain, who has denounced Mr Trump's conduct and faces a close re-election
battle in Arizona, as "foul-mouthed".
Despite a widening
divide within the Republican Party, some members insist they are sticking by Mr
Trump.
New Jersey
Governor Chris Christie said he was "really disturbed" by Mr Trump's
comments about women but still planned to support him, saying the election was
"about bigger issues than that".
Texas Senator and
former rival Ted Cruz also said he would still cast his ballot for Mr Trump,
telling a Texas TV station that Mrs Clinton was an "absolute
disaster".
Mr Trump delivered
a gaffe while addressing supporters in Florida on Tuesday, telling them to go
out and vote on the wrong date.
ABC News footage
showed him saying: "Go and register. Make sure you get out and vote,
November 28." The election is on 8 November.
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