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Speaking out: French president Francoise Hollande said of Trump: 'A
certain number of excesses have ended up making people feel nauseous - even in
the United States.'
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French
President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday a victory by U.S. presidential
candidate Donald Trump could make politics more conservative around the world
and said the real estate magnate made people 'feel nauseous'.
A Trump
victory in November could also affect France's presidential election in the
spring of 2017, said Hollande, who has not yet announced if he will seek reelection.
'If the
Americans choose Trump, that will have consequences, because an American
election is a world election,' the Socialist leader told journalists.
'It
could lead to a very strong turn to the right in the world, or to a correction
... the American campaign shows issues that will be reflected in the French
campaign,' said Hollande.
The
Socialist will face strong competition from far-right National Front leader
Marine Le Pen if he chooses to run again for the French presidency.
'A
certain number of excesses have ended up making people feel nauseous - even in
the United States - especially, as Donald Trump did, when criticizes the memory
of a soldier,' he said.
Trump
has been caught up in a row after the family of Captain Humayan Khan, killed in
action in Iraq, spoke against him, with the officer's father, Khizr, speaking
at the Democratic National Convention and accusing Trump of ignoring the
constitution.
Gold star family: Khizr Khan addressed
the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last week flanked by his
wife and accused Donald Trump of ignoring the constiution
Trump
questioned the silence at the event of the dead man's mother, Ghazal, prompting
her to cry in a television interview and her husband to accuse Trump having a
'dark soul'.
Hollande
said he was hearing 'hurtful, humiliating comments' during the election
campaign. Speaking about politicians in general, he said 'they should be
respected when they are respectable'.
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Captain Humayan Khan died in 2004 in a suicide attack on
his base in Baqubah, telling his men to fall back as he ran towards a taxi
which crashed through the gates. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery
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The intervention by a world leader over the Capt Khan row came
as President Barack Obama on Tuesday called Trump 'unfit' to become
president and a mounting outcry from politicians on both sides against Trump.
'Yes. I
think the Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president,' Obama said today
at a news conference. 'I said so last week and he keeps on proving it.'
Obama
said, 'The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family that had made such
extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of 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. '
Trump
hit back with a statement in response to what he characterized as Obama's
'failed leadership.'
'Obama-Clinton
have single-handedly destabilized the Middle East, handed Iraq, Libya and Syria
to ISIS, and allowed our personnel to be slaughtered at Benghazi,' he
said.
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Source: dailymail
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