An infuriated Carly Fiorina slammed President Obama Wednesday morning for his latest criticism of Republicans, saying the president is “speaking in a way that’s beneath his office.”
While speaking to reporters in the Philippines Wednesday morning, Obama suggested that Republicans who oppose the intake of Syrian refugees “are scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America.”
“At first, they were too scared of the press being too tough on them in the debates. Now they are scared of three-year-old orphans. That doesn’t seem so tough to me,” the president said, minutes after criticizing his opponents for “political posturing.”
Reacting to Obama’s comments just hours later, Fiorina told Fox News “it is outrageous that a sitting president, immediately following a terrorist attack where we know that ISIS is attempting to plan attacks here in the U.S., would use his time to attack Republicans.”
“This is revealing of the fact that President Obama doesn’t understand the nature of the attack,” the Republican presidential hopeful said.
“I guess he’s like Hillary Clinton [in that] he thinks Republicans are his enemies,” Fiorina added, before declaring Obama a “politician, not a leader.”
Host Martha MacCallum interjected, noting that Obama “clearly gets fired up about this issue.”
“It’s all he gets fired up about,” Fiorina shot back.
She continued, “He doesn’t get fired up about ISIS. He doesn’t get fired up about the threat to the homeland. He doesn’t get fired about what we need to do to change our strategy to defeat them. All he gets fired up about is Republicans.”
According to Fiorina, Republicans “are the ones focused on the security of the homeland.” She later noted that most of the Syrian refugees are “young, able-bodied men” while defending her opposition to accepting refugees from the war-torn country.
The former business executive concluded her interview with a sharp critique of Obama’s priorities.
“This president reveals once again that politics is his north star. It is always politics,” she said.
Fiorina is seventh in the Washington Examiner’s presidential power rankings.
