Obama, Clinton tear into Trump for anti-Muslim comments

Their remarks, made in Washington and Pittsburgh, came the day after Trump had made insinuations about Obama's loyalty to the U.S. and had vowed that as president he would ban immigration not only by Muslims but people from any country with a "proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies."

In his remarks, delivered after a meeting with national security advisers at the Treasury Department, Obama said that the proposals by Trump would undermine American values.

"Where does this stop?" Obama said pointing out that the shooter responsible for the killing of 49 people in Orlando was born in the U.S., as were the attackers in several previous terrorists acts.

"Are we going to start treating all Muslim Americans differently" than other citizens? ...Are we going to start discriminating against them because of their faith?", he asked.

If the U.S. were to go down that path "we would have betrayed the very things we're trying to protect...And then the terrorists would have won, and we cannot let that happen. I will not let that happen," Obama said.

Clinton went more ballistic against Trump at a campaign rally in Pittsburgh, referring to remarks that Trump.

"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.

"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."

"History will remember what we do in this moment," she said.

She called Trump's remarks "shameful" and "disrespectful" and "yet more evidence that he is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president."

"We don't need conspiracy theories and pathological self-congratulations. We need leadership."

Trump has previously questioned Obama's Christian faith, referring to him in a Twitter message as "the black Muslim in the White House."

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