Clinton: Trump offered ‘rants’ and ‘lies’ in Orlando response

14 June 2016, 8:52 pm

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Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump offered “bizarre rants” and “demonstrative lies” in his response to the Orlando massacre.

In a point-by-point rebuttal to the presumptive GOP nominee’s address yesterday, Clinton says that Trump has to “distract us from the fact that he has nothing substantive to say.”

She says the Republican falsely identified the native-born shooter as an immigrant, arguing that Trump’s anti-immigration platform and ban on Muslims entering the country would not have “saved a single life.”

“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,” she tells union members at a campaign event in Pittsburgh.

Clinton also says Trump falsely accused her of wanting to allow a flood of unverified refugees into the country and eradicate the second amendment.

“We need a commander-in-chief who can grapple with our challenges in all their complexity, with real plans that actually address them,” she says.