Clinton accuses 'shameful' Trump of smearing Obama as 'on the side of terrorists' as she attacks 'bizarre rants' and 'lies' from rival 

  • Hillary Clinton went after Donald Trump today for suggesting that President Obama identified with radicalized Muslims 
  • She also said his speech yesterday was filled with 'nonsense' while debunking Trump's two-part plan to fight ISIS 
  • Singing a similar tune as President Obama, Clinton scoffed at Trump's fixation with having Democrats say 'radical Islamic terrorism' 
  • 'Is Donald Trump suggesting that there are magic words that once uttered will stop terrorists from coming after us?' she asked her audience 
  •  She mocked Trump's plan to ban Muslims and stop immigration, noting that the Orlando shooter was born in New York City, just like Trump 

Hillary Clinton went after Donald Trump today at a rally in Pittsburgh calling him 'shameful' for suggesting yesterday that President Obama was 'on the side of terrorists.' 

She dissected the national security speech that Trump delivered yesterday in the aftermath of the Orlando terror attack, saying it contained a number of 'bizarre rants' and 'outright lies.'

Clinton said she read every word. 'And what I found, once you cut through the nonsense, is that his plan comes down to two things,' she noted, before taking apart both parts.

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Hillary Clinton blasted Donald Trump today from a podium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hitting him for suggesting that President Obama somehow identified with radicalized Muslims

Hillary Clinton blasted Donald Trump today from a podium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hitting him for suggesting that President Obama somehow identified with radicalized Muslims

Hillary Clinton called a majority of Donald Trump's plan to fight ISIS 'nonsense,' saying it was filled with lies and 'bizarre rants'  

Hillary Clinton called a majority of Donald Trump's plan to fight ISIS 'nonsense,' saying it was filled with lies and 'bizarre rants'  

First, sounding a lot like President Obama, who was giving remarks at the same time today, Clinton said that Trump has gotten caught up with 'semantics' as he's blasted both Democrats for not using the terminology 'radical Islamic terrorism.' 

'He is fixated on the words "radical Islam,"' Clinton pointed out. 'Now I must say I find this strange.' 

'Is Donald Trump suggesting that there are magic words that once uttered will stop terrorists from coming after us?' the former secretary of state mused. 

In D.C., at the Treasury Department, Obama used a 'magic' line too.

'There's no magic to the phrase "radical Islam,"' the president said. 'It's a political talking point, it's not a strategy.' 

'And the reason I am careful about how I describe this threat has nothing to do with political correctness and everything to do with actually defeating extremism,' Obama added.  

Back in Pittsburgh, Clinton labeled Trump's tactic more 'name-calling' as usual.

'And from my perspective it matters what we do, not what we say,' she said. 

'In the end it didn't matter what we called bin Laden, it mattered that we got bin Laden,' she said, name-dropping the Al Qaeda leader behind 9/11, that was killed by American Navy Seals in Pakistan while she was still President Obama's secretary of state. 

Hillary Clinton touted being a part of the Obama administration when Navy Seals took Osama bin Laden down: 'In the end it didn't matter what we called bin Laden, it mattered that we got bin Laden,' she said 

Hillary Clinton touted being a part of the Obama administration when Navy Seals took Osama bin Laden down: 'In the end it didn't matter what we called bin Laden, it mattered that we got bin Laden,' she said 

President Obama sang a similar tune as Clinton as the two Democrats spoke at the same time, both mocking Donald Trump for suggesting that saying the 'magic words' 'radical Islamic terrorism' would stop terrorists

President Obama sang a similar tune as Clinton as the two Democrats spoke at the same time, both mocking Donald Trump for suggesting that saying the 'magic words' 'radical Islamic terrorism' would stop terrorists

Clinton told the crowd that she has discussed Islam in the context of terrorism talk.

'I have clearly said that we faced terrorist enemies that use a perverted version of Islam,' she said. 'Now that we are past the semantic debate, Donald's going to have to come up with something better.' 

The Democrat then said that The Donald's idea No. 2 was the expand the Muslim ban. 

'Now he wants to go further and suspend all immigration from large parts of the world,' Clinton said. 

'But in this instance, Donald's words are especially nonsensical because the terrorist who carried out this attack wasn't born in Afghanistan, as Donald Trump said yesterday, he was born in Queens, New York, just like Donald was himself,' Clinton continued. 

'So Muslim bans and immigration reforms would not have stopped him,' Clinton added. 'They would not have saved a single life in Orlando – and those are the only two ideas Donald Trump put forward yesterday in how to fight ISIS.' 

Trump also hinted, early yesterday morning during an interview on Fox News, that Obama may have identified in some ways with the shooter, 29-year-old Omar Mateen. 

'Look, we're led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he's got something else in mind,' Trump said, according to the Washington Post, which headlined the story, 'Donald Trump suggests President Obama was involved with Orlando shooting,' later changing it to, 'Donald Trump seems to connect President Obama to Orlando shooting.'   

'And the something else in mind – you know, people can't believe it. People cannot, they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can't even mention the words "radical Islamic terrorism." There's something going on. It's inconceivable. There's something going on,' Trump continued on Fox.

'He doesn't get it or he gets it better than anybody understands – it's one or the other, and either one is unacceptable,' Trump added.

Later in the day Trump announced that he would no longer be giving press credentials to the Washington Post for reporting his remarks in such a way. 

Clinton also interpreted Trump's remarks this way. 

'Donald Trump wants to be our next commander-in-chief,' Clinton said near the top of her speech. 'I think we all know that this is a job that demands a calm, collected and dignified response to these kinds of events.' 

'Instead, yesterday morning, just one day after the massacre, he went on TV and suggested that President Obama is on the side of the terrorists,' she continued. 

'And, just think about that for a second. Even in a time of divided politics, this is way beyond anything that should be said by someone running for president of the United States,' she added.

Clinton then called on Trump's fellow Republicans to disavow their nominee's remarks. 

'Now I'm sure they'd rather avoid the question altogether, but history will remember what we do in this moment,' Clinton said. 

'What Donald Trump is saying is shameful – it is disrespectful to the people who were killed and wounded, and their families.' 

Clinton again called Trump 'temperamentally unfit' and 'totally unqualified' to be commander-in chief. 

She reminded her audience that Trump was behind the 'birther' attacks on Obama, which insinuated that he – the country's first black president – wasn't born in the United States.   

'I guess he had to be reminded Hawaii is part of the United States,' she snickered. 

She called to attention the attacks that Trump made on the Mexican-American judge, Gonzalo Curiel, too – the man tasked with handling a Trump University case. 

'I guess he has to be reminded Indiana is in the United States,' Clinton said, stating Curiel's place of birth. 

Like yesterday Clinton brought up gun control and said that Trump wouldn't stand up to the gun lobby. 

'We have reached the point where people cannot board airplanes with full bottles of shampoo, but people being watched by the FBI for suspected terrorist links can buy a gun with no questions asked,' Clinton stated. 

'That is absurd,' she said. 

'It just seems like Western Pennsylvania common sense, if you're too dangerous to get on a plane, you're too dangerous to buy a gun,' she said, giving a nod to her Pittsburgh-based audience. 

Finally, Clinton ended her remarks in a way that could woo Republican voters toward her candidacy too. 

She discussed a letter left in the Oval Office by one President George H.W. Bush to her husband, President Bill Clinton, in January of 1993.  

The 92-year-old Bush, who celebrated his birthday this week, had said to Clinton, who had just beat him in the election, 'You will be our president when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well. Your success is now our country's success and I am rooting hard for you.' 

'That is the America we love. That is what we cherish,' Clinton said. 'So let us come together we can disagree without being disagreeable, we can root for each other's success.'

'Our president is everyone's president and our future belongs to us all,' Clinton said. 

'Let's make this once again the big-hearted, fair-minded country we all love so much,' she concluded.  

 

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