Clinton blasts Trump’s ‘reckless ideas’ in Orlando aftermath

Hillary Clinton ripped Donald Trump in an interview Wednesday, calling the presumptive Republican nominee “pathetic” for suggesting that President Barack Obama “supports terrorists”.

The U.S. President had earlier in a speech ripped through Trump’s “Muslim ban” rhetoric, saying such a unsafe mindset will make the Muslim Americans feel that their government is betraying them. Speaking to reporters after a briefing on the Orlando shooting, Obama said Trump’s call for tougher talk on terrorism and a strict ban on Muslim immigration would undermine American values.

At least 49 people were gunned down in a gay nightclub by self-proclaimed Islamic State sympathiser Omar Mateen on Sunday.

“When you get right down and you look at it, we have got to be respected”.

“Yesterday morning, just one day after the massacre, he went on TV and suggested President Obama is on the side of the terrorists”, Clinton said.

The shooter, Omar Mateen, 29, the USA -born son of Afghan immigrant parents, called authorities during the massacre and pledged his allegiance to Islamic State militants. And she noted that Trump had wrongly declared that the shooter in Orlando had been born in Afghanistan.

Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, seemed to notice a threat to Americans and came up with solutions to overcome them.

So after Trump’s comments, LGBT people came out on social media under #AskTheGays to say exactly what they thought about The Donald and the results were pretty hilarious.

Prominent Republicans this week distanced themselves from Trump’s comments about Muslims. Going further, he also said he would use presidential discretion to “suspend immigration from areas of the world where there’s a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe and our allies”.

While Trump pressed on with his overtures to the LGBT community – with whom Trump expressed solidarity with on Monday – his supporters met that appeal to LGBT Americans with a tepid, if not muted response in North Carolina, which recently passed a law banning transgender individuals from using bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity. The shooting, he said, brought all kinds of praise for his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the country: “I had been receiving tens of thousands of tweets, literally, tweets and calls and letters and everything. And it is yet more evidence that he is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander in chief”. “I don’t know how one builds a wall to keep the internet out”, she said.

Obama and Clinton want to tighten the vise on Republicans from Ryan on down and pressure them to take a stand on Trump.

“If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists’ work for them”, he said.