Barack Obama Statement on Correspondents Dinner Shooting Fits a Partisan Pattern

Barack Obama claimed in a Sunday afternoon statement that “we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner.”

Well, we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind Obama’s Sunday afternoon statement. A generous interpretation wonders whether the former president and his handlers had composed it hours before its actual release, by which time Cole Allen’s motives seemed transparent. A more cynical, and popular, interpretation posits that by muddying clear waters Obama wished to conduct damage control for progressives and hamstring any popularity rebound for the reeling President Trump.

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Daniel J. Flynn

Daniel J. Flynn, the author of The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer, is an American Spectator senior editor, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, and YouTuber @RightWingWilderness.

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Barack Obama claimed in a Sunday afternoon statement that “we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner.”

Well, we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind Obama’s Sunday afternoon statement. A generous interpretation wonders whether the former president and his handlers had composed it hours before its actual release, by which time Cole Allen’s motives seemed transparent. A more cynical, and popular, interpretation posits that by muddying clear waters Obama wished to conduct damage control for progressives and hamstring any popularity rebound for the reeling President Trump.