New York Times editorial board declares Trump ‘unfit to lead’

Board calls Trump a chilling choice against this national moment' days before Republican national convention

The editorial board of the New York Times has declared that Donald Trump is unfit to lead" in an urgently worded article published just ahead of the Republican convention, where Trump will once again be formally named the party's choice for president.

Noting that the former president and convicted felon has now become the Republican nominee three times in eight years, the board said: A once great political party now serves the interests of one man, a man as demonstrably unsuited for the office of president as any to run in the long history of the republic, a man whose values, temperament, ideas and language are directly opposed to so much of what has made this country great."