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.<\/p>\n
Follow the latest on the shooting at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner:<\/p>\n
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\u201cI am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,\u201d wrote Allen in his manifesto.<\/p>\n
A few lines later, he explained he would murder hotel guests and employees alike if he needed to in order to succeed in assassinating administration officials.<\/p>\n
Obama lied about Allen\u2019s motives to elide his side\u2019s slide toward political extremism and violence. And he did so because he is an immensely cynical political operator.<\/p>\n
Spin \u2018doctor\u2019<\/p>\n
Voters ought to be keenly aware of his true identity as the former president hits the campaign trail on behalf of his party in advance of November.<\/p>\n
After all, the truth has always taken a backseat to 44\u2019s whims.<\/p>\n
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Obama lied about Allen\u2019s motives to elide his side\u2019s slide toward political extremism and violence.<\/p>\n
To this day, the Affordable Care Act remains the signature legislative achievement of his presidency; it was sold using the slogan, \u201cIf you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2013, one year after Obama\u2019s re-election, left-leaning PolitiFact named that mantra its lie of the year, tsk-tsking the commander in chief not only for his erroneous claim, but making \u201cmatters worse\u201d by falsely insisting he had \u201cbeen misunderstood all along.\u201d<\/p>\n
Insult to injury, then.<\/p>\n
A year later, Obama used his bully pulpit to fan the flames of the civil unrest in Ferguson, Mo., where Michael Brown had<\/a> been shot by Officer Darren Wilson in August.<\/p>\n The race riots that broke out in the immediate aftermath of the incident inflicted tremendous damage on the city, with many local businesses never recovering.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n After a grand jury declined to indict Wilson that November, however, Obama insisted it was \u201cunderstandable\u201d that Americans were \u201cdeeply disappointed\u201d or \u201ceven angry\u201d with the decision before lecturing local authorities \u201cto show care and restraint in managing peaceful protests that may occur\u201d \u2014 as if they hadn\u2019t already.<\/p>\n A dozen buildings were burned to the ground that evening, and 20-year-old DeAndre Joshua was found dead in his car the next day; no one remembers his name.<\/p>\n Just a few short months later, Obama\u2019s own Department of Justice cleared Wilson and debunked the oft-repeated lie that Brown had already surrendered, hands raised above his head, when Wilson shot him.<\/p>\n Oops.<\/p>\n Obama\u2019s commitment to advancing his own narrative at any cost was on display yet again after Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 attack on Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n His initial, three-sentence statement on the deadliest day for Jewry since the Holocaust didn\u2019t come until Oct. 9, and was followed up a couple weeks later by an essay devoted almost entirely to scolding Israel while parroting Hamas\u2019 accusations against it.<\/p>\n Where others saw a moment that demanded moral clarity, Obama saw an opportunity to muddy the waters, as is his custom.<\/p>\n Divide & conquer<\/p>\n More recently, the former president has emerged as one of the country\u2019s leading advocates of partisan gerrymandering \u2014 for Democrats, of course.<\/p>\n In an exceedingly haughty statement issued last summer, Obama managed to at once claim the moral high ground, condemn Republican gerrymanders, and endorse Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s carve-up of California.<\/p>\n