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Obama’s gaffe about the WHCD shooter is just the latest in the former president’s legacy of lies

Barack Obama’s tacky, hyperpartisan post-presidency is welcome insofar as it serves to remind the public of his tacky, hyperpartisan leadership style.

“Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. . . ,” began Obama’s Sunday evening statement about the gunman who showed up in Washington the night before.

Except by the time Obama got around to acknowledging the attack, the entire world knew why Cole Tomas Allen had attempted to storm the ballroom where President Trump and much of his administration were breaking bread with their ancestral enemies in the Fourth Estate.

Follow the latest on the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner:

WHCD shooting suspect Cole Allen charged with trying to assassinate President Trump

Cole Allen’s shotgun pictured for the first time after alleged WHCD gunman rushed security checkpoint

Trump calls ‘60 Minutes’ host ‘disgraceful’ for reading WHCD suspect Cole Allen’s alleged manifesto on air

Who are ‘The Wide Awakes,’ leftist group that WHCD suspect Cole Allen was supposedly a part of?

“I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” wrote Allen in his manifesto.

A few lines later, he explained he would murder hotel guests and employees alike if he needed to in order to succeed in assassinating........

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