The 31-year-old California man who opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner left behind a written manifesto detailing exactly why he did it, who he wanted to kill, and which Trump administration officials were on his target list. He attended the Kings March. He despised Christianity. His writings are indistinguishable from any random progressive’s social media feed circa 2024.

So naturally, Barack Obama took the podium at the very same event and told the room the shooter’s motive was “unclear.” Unclear! The man literally wrote it down for you, Barry.

(We should note that “unclear” is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in that sentence. The manifesto is public. Reporters have it. You can read it yourself. The only thing “unclear” is why Obama thought he could get away with saying that on camera.)

Here’s what we know about this lunatic. He was a 31-year-old from California — shocking, we know — who had marinated in progressive ideology for years. He marched in the Kings March. He wrote extensively about his hatred of Christianity, his hatred of conservatives, and his belief that Trump administration officials were “legitimate targets” in what he called a “war for the soul of democracy.”

His manifesto reads like someone scraped every unhinged BlueSky thread from the last two years and fed it into a blender. Anti-Christian screeds. Dehumanizing language about conservatives. Fantasies about political violence dressed up as “resistance.” If you swapped out his name and posted excerpts on any progressive forum, nobody would flag it. They’d hit the like button.

That’s the part nobody in the media wants to talk about.

There is a pipeline. It starts with mainstream progressive rhetoric — the kind that calls half the country fascists, white supremacists, and threats to democracy. It runs through social media echo chambers where that language gets amplified and radicalized. And it ends with a guy in California deciding the next logical step is to pick up a gun.

We’ve watched this pattern before. The Congressional baseball shooting in 2017 — that was a Bernie Sanders volunteer who opened fire on Republican congressmen. James Hodgkinson literally had a hit list of GOP members in his pocket. The attempted assassination of Justice Kavanaugh in 2022 — another progressive who showed up with a gun, zip ties, and a plan.

Every single time, the media treats it like a random act of madness. No pattern. No connection. No ideology. Just a “troubled individual.”

But when some nut job with a Confederate flag in his basement does something horrible? Oh, then suddenly the media can trace the ideological throughline all the way back to the founding of the Republic. Then it’s systemic. Then it’s a movement.

Funny how that works.

And then there’s Obama. Good old Barack, the guy who spent eight years in the White House perfecting the art of saying nothing while sounding profound. He could’ve said anything Saturday night. He could’ve acknowledged the manifesto. He could’ve called out political violence. He could’ve — and this is a wild idea — just not said anything about the motive at all.

Instead, he looked into the camera and said the motive was “unclear.”

This is a man who had no trouble assigning motive when a police officer was involved in a shooting. Remember “the police acted stupidly”? That was three days into an investigation. But a progressive radical leaves behind a written confession and suddenly we need more time to figure out what happened?

The motive wasn’t unclear. The motive was inconvenient.

Because if you acknowledge the motive, you have to acknowledge where it came from. You have to acknowledge that years of calling Trump supporters fascists, calling conservative politicians existential threats to democracy, and calling for “resistance” by any means necessary has consequences. Real consequences. Bullet-shaped consequences.

The progressive-to-shooter pipeline is real. The rhetoric creates the radicalization, the echo chambers accelerate it, and the media covers for it after the fact by pretending every single case is an isolated incident with an “unclear” motive.

Obama knows exactly what the motive was. Every reporter in that room knows. Every Democrat strategist who workshopped the phrase “threat to democracy” knows.

They just can’t say it out loud, because then they’d have to look in the mirror.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for that moment of self-reflection. These are the same people who spent four years calling Trump “literally Hitler” and then acted shocked — shocked! — when someone tried to act on it. They’ll memory-hole this manifesto by Tuesday, and by next week they’ll be right back to calling us the violent ones.

The shooter told you exactly why he did it. Obama told you he couldn’t read. Believe the shooter.