President Obama on Tuesday ripped into Donald J. Trump as a fundamentally indecent person dangerously unsuited and unprepared for the presidency, imploring voters to “turn back the forces of racism and misogyny, and send a message for progress” by electing Hillary Clinton instead.
“He doesn’t have the temperament, or the judgment, or the knowledge, or apparently the desire to obtain the knowledge” needed to be president, Mr. Obama told a raucous crowd of 7,700 at an outdoor rally on the outskirts of this heavily African-American city.
“That was true even before we heard about his attitudes towards women,” Mr. Obama said, alluding to the recording that emerged on Friday in which Mr. Trump boasted in lewd terms of kissing and groping women without their consent.
“You don’t have to be a husband or a father to hear what we heard a few days ago and say, ‘That’s not right.’ You just have to be a decent human being,” Mr. Obama said.
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