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| Barack Obama calls on Donald Trump to 'stop whining' about rigged election, slams praise for Putin | Barack Obama calls on Donald Trump to 'stop whining' about rigged election, slams praise for Putin |
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| President Barack Obama issued a scathing responses to Donald Trump's continued claims that the US election will be rigged. | |
| "I invite Mr Trump to stop whining and try to make his case to get votes," Mr Obama said during a news conference in the White House Rose Garden with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. | |
| The president said that Mr Trump's calims are "not based on facts". | The president said that Mr Trump's calims are "not based on facts". |
| "He's already whining before the game's even over," he said. | "He's already whining before the game's even over," he said. |
| He added that the likelihood of Mr Trump contesting the results of the election is "one way of weakening America and making it less great". | |
| On Putin, Mr Obama called Mr Trump's "continued flattery" of the Russian president "unprecendented" in US politics. | |
| The praise, Mr Obama added, is "out of step with not just what Democrats think, but out of step with what – up until the last few months – almost every Republican thought, including some of the ones who are now endorsing Mr Trump." |