For Barack Obama, the motive behind Saturday’s assassination attempt on President Donald Trump is somehow a mystery.
It’s not enough that a deranged California man charged a high-profile Washington event while heavily armed, firing at Secret Service agents providing security. It’s not enough that hewrote a manifestodescribing his “rage thinking about everything this administration has done.”
The former president claimed Sunday that “we don’t yet have details about the motives behind last night’s shooting.” And he got blistered for the lie.
Obama published his post on the social media platform X after 5 p.m. Eastern time, long after the gunman’s manifesto had become public, but Obama was still pretending to be mystified.
Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama)April 26, 2026
“Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy,” he wrote.
It’s big of him to acknowledge that political violence has no place in American democracy — it’s an idea he might want to hammer into his violent leftist fellow travelers a little harder. But it’s impossible to square his pretend puzzlement over what drove the attempted assassin with the facts as they’re known.
It was not only a lie. It was an absurd lie.
And it didn’t take long for the backlash to begin.
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