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Trump ‘makes you want to retch’ - Hollande

French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday slammed the "excesses" of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as sickening.

French President Francois Hollande (3rdR), Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve (2ndR) and French Prime Minister Manuel Valls (4thR) looks on during a meeting with French representatives of religious communities at the Elysee Palace,  July 27
French President Francois Hollande (3rdR), Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve (2ndR) and French Prime Minister Manuel Valls (4thR) looks on during a meeting with French representatives of religious communities at the Elysee Palace, July 27 Reuters/路透社
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"His excesses make you want to retch, even in the United States, especially when -- as was Donald Trump's case -- he speaks ill of a soldier, of the memory of a soldier," Hollande told journalists in Paris.

The French leader was referring to a feud between Trump and the Muslim parents of a slain US soldier, which has shaken the presidential campaign just three months before the November vote.

"Democracy is also at stake, as we see more and more people tempted by authoritarianism," he said, "especially" in the United States.

"Should the American people choose Trump, there will be consequences, because a US election is a global election," he added.

The Republican campaign to retake the White House is reeling from a series of self-inflicted scandals as Trump has in recent days criticised Muslims, babies, firefighters and the military, prompting his Republican backers to issue awkward denunciations.

US President Barack Obama also joined the fray, declaring Trump “unfit” to hold the country’s top office in his strongest rebuke yet of the 70-year-old mogul.

Obama described Trump as “woefully unprepared” and “unfit to serve as president”.

“He keeps proving it,” Obama added, as he called on Republican leaders to disown him.

Trump swept the Republican primary, but is currently trailing Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton in opinion polls by around four percentage points.

 

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