Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump blasted President Barack Obama as well as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, hours after Obama stated that Trump is constantly supplying evidence that he's "unfit" for the job.
"Obama-Clinton have single-handedly destabilized the Middle East, handed Iraq, Libya and Syria to ISIS, and allowed our personnel to be slaughtered at Benghazi. Then they put Iran on the path to nuclear weapons. Then they allowed dozens of veterans to die waiting for medical care that never came,” said Trump in a statement.
Clinton, he charged, “put the whole country at risk with her illegal email server, deleted evidence of her crime, and lied repeatedly about her conduct which endangered us all.”
“They released criminal aliens into our country who killed one innocent American after another -- like Sarah Root and Kate Steinle -- and have repeatedly admitted migrants later implicated in terrorism,” said Trump. “They have produced the worst recovery since the Great Depression. They have shipped millions of our best jobs overseas to appease their global special interests. They have betrayed our security and our workers, and Hillary Clinton has proven herself unfit to serve in any government office.”
“She is reckless with her emails, reckless with regime change, and reckless with American lives. Our nation has been humiliated abroad and compromised by radical Islam brought onto our shores. We need change now,” concluded the Republican nominee.
Obama had earlier said that Trump "is unfit to serve as president. He keeps on proving it."
"He's woefully unprepared to do this job," said Obama, calling for top Republican leaders such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan to withdraw their endorsements of Trump. "There has to be a point at which you say, 'enough.' "
"What does this say about your party that this is your standard-bearer?" the President continued. "This isn't a situation where you have an episodic gaffe. This is daily and weekly where they are distancing themselves from statements he's making. There has to be a point at which you say, 'This is not somebody I can support for president of the United States, even if he purports to be a member of my party.' "
The President's comments came after the latest controversy surrounding Trump's mockery of Khizer Kahn, father of an American soldier who died in combat in Iraq.