In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, former President Barack Obama took to social media to post the following: “Our current president … [and] his aides … have a history of calling political opponents’ ‘vermin’ [and] enemies. … I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the United States government behind extremist views.” Photo by Scott Olson
