Trump surrogate Kayleigh McEnany on Monday claimed that President Barack Obama “rushed off to a golf game” after the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 — before Obama was elected president.
“You had President Obama who after the — I believe it was the beheading of Daniel Pearl — spoke to how upset he was about that, then rushed off to a golf game,” she said. “I think when we’re in a state of war, when we’re in a state of mourning, you should take time off from the golf course.”
Obama was a member of the Illinois Senate at the time of Pearl’s videotaped beheading in 2002, six years before Obama was elected to his first term as president.
WATCH: Kayleigh McEnany: Obama rushed off to golf after Daniel Pearl was beheaded.
Pearl was killed in 2002. Obama was a state senator. pic.twitter.com/5QkFRgjoR4
— Yashar (@yashar) March 28, 2017
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— Lana Berry (@Lana) March 28, 2017
McEnany apologized on Tuesday “for using the wrong name” and tweeted that she meant to refer to James Foley, a photojournalist who went missing in Syria in 2012 and whose videotaped beheading was released in 2014.
I apologize for using the wrong name. Both James Foley and Daniel Pearl lost their lives to terrorism & should be honored by our leaders.
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) March 28, 2017
Obama faced widespread criticism for golfing not long after he addressed Foley’s murder, and later said he “should’ve anticipated the optics.”
Distraction.
And just how long was it before trump left for Florida after a Navy Seal has killed on a botched raid he authorized?
There’s something about eight scandal-free years that inspires the invention of whole new classes of misdeeds like Doing Something Upbeat Too Soon After a Bad Thing Happens.
Kaylie McEninny