Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Circuit Center in Pittsburgh on June 14. | AP Photo Clinton slams Trump's 'bizarre rants' The presumptive Democratic nominee delivers a forceful rebuttal to Trump's attacks on Obama and Muslim ban.

PITTSBURGH — Hillary Clinton on Tuesday offered a point-by-point rebuttal of Donald Trump’s inflammatory comments following the Orlando massacre, condemning his Muslim ban, mocking his focus on the term ‘radical Islam’ and ripping his attack of President Obama as “way beyond anything that should be said by someone running for president.”

Clinton’s 30 minutes of remarks, delivered at a packed union hall in Pittsburgh in front of three oversized American flags, marked a dramatic departure from her speech 24 hours earlier in Cleveland, where she laid out her plan for defeating ISIL and pointedly avoided mentioning Trump by name.


But after Trump suggested Obama was on the terrorists’ side, his blaming of Muslims for the hate crime that killed 49 at a gay night club early Sunday morning, and the self-congratulations he promoted on Twitter for being “right on radical Islamic terrorism,” campaign officials determined the remarks demanded an immediate response from the candidate, an aide said.

In Pittsburgh, a big city in a critical swing state where Clinton had originally planned to speak directly to steelworkers about her infrastructure plans and domestic economic policy, the presumptive Democratic nominee offered an uncharacteristic real-time fact check of her general election opponent.

“I read every word of Donald Trump’s speech yesterday,” Clinton said, noting that she “sifted through all of the bizarre rants and outright lies."

Of Trump’s claim that the Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, was born in Afghanistan, Clinton corrected the record. “He was born in Queens, New York, just like Donald was himself,” she said, speaking quietly and calmly.

Of Trump’s claim that she would abolish the Second Amendment and also allow a flood of refugees into the country without any screening, Clinton said they were “demonstrably lies” and noted that “he has to distract us from the fact that he has nothing substantive to say.”

Clinton said that what Trump offered were “conspiracy theories and pathological self-congratulations.”

And she reiterated how she hopes to define her opponent ahead of the summer’s conventions: “temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president.”

Clinton said that Trump is “fixated on the words ‘radical Islam,’” suggesting “there are magic words that once uttered will stop terrorists from coming after us?”

Clinton’s speech came a day before she was originally scheduled to campaign side by side with Obama, a big moment promoting party unity, which was canceled because of the Orlando attack. But even if they were not physically campaigning together, Clinton and Obama appeared to be coordinated in their responses to Trump.

While Clinton was speaking, Obama delivered remarks at the Treasury building in Washington, D.C. “There’s no magic to the phrase ‘radical Islam;’ it’s a political talking point, it’s not a strategy,” Obama said, using the same language as Clinton.

Clinton and Obama both challenged Republican leaders backing their presumptive nominee to respond to Trump’s Muslim ban.

“Do Republican officials actually agree with this?” Obama asked.

Clinton asked: “Will they stand up to their presumptive Republican nominee or will they stand by?”

A Clinton aide would not discuss any coordination but noted that the campaign and the White House “speak regularly.”

Clinton said that Trump’s plan to suspend immigration from large parts of the world “goes against everything we stand for as a country, founded on religious freedom.” But even more to the point, she said, it is dangerous and makes it harder to fight terrorists. “We need to build trust in Muslim communities here at home, this would make it harder,” she said. “We rely on partners in Muslim countries to fight terrorists -- this would make it harder.”

Repeatedly, Clinton positioned herself as an experienced leader dealing with someone unfit to serve as commander-in-chief. “Leaders who have actually fought terrorists know this,” she said, a rhetorical version of her now famous “brush the dirt off your shoulder” move of confidence at the Benghazi hearing. At another point, she noted: “Trump as usual is obsessed with name-calling. In the end it didn’t matter what we called bin Laden, it mattered that we got bin Laden.”

“Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised,” Clinton said of the man who fueled the birther movement questioning Obama's birth place. “But it was one thing when he was a reality TV personality. Raising his arms, and yelling you’re fired! It is another thing all together when he is the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for president.”

“He says he knows more about ISIS than the generals do,” Clinton said. “It’s almost hard to even think of what to say about that.”

Clinton ended on a note of unity, reminding Pennsylvania voters of the kind of politicians that once led the Republican Party. She recalled reading a letter left by George H. W. Bush for her husband, Bill Clinton, when he entered office after a bitter campaign.

“You will be our president when you read this note,” Clinton said. “Your success is now our country’s success and I am rooting hard for you,” the outgoing president wrote to his successor.

Clinton said the patriotism and unity demonstrated between leaders of different political parties brought tears to her eyes. “That’s the America we love,” she said.

The Bushes, so far, have decided to sit out the 2016 election rather than endorse Trump.