America’s rightly reeling from the recent letter-bomb threats aimed at politicians and media figures. So it’s time to tell the truth. It was wrong for Donald Trump to befriend an unrepentant terrorist. To make him his political ally for many years.

It was equally wrong for President Trump to commute the sentence of a terrorist leader. Especially one whose racial separatist militia committed some 120 bombings. Those killed six people and injured dozens of others.

Nor should the president have spent years attending a radical fringe “Christian” church whose message focused on racial struggle. Whose leader condemned America, and asked God to do the same.

Obama befriended terrorist bombing-mastermind Bill Ayers.

Such actions on the part of a president are unconscionable. They send a message that it’s okay to use deadly violence. To harass, punch, or bomb those with different political beliefs. That divisive racial politics are morally acceptable.

Obama: Friend of Terrorists

Oops. Let me fix a typo. For “Donald Trump” above read “Barack Obama.” My apologies for the error.

That’s right. Look back at his early days of Chicago political activism. Obama befriended terrorist bombing-mastermind Bill Ayers. Here’s what neutral Wikipedia recounts about Ayers’ career:

In 1969, he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group with the intent to overthrow imperialism, that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings (including police stations, the US Capitol Building, and the Pentagon) during the 1960s and 1970s in response to US involvement in the Vietnam War.

Stanley Kurtz wrote at National Review:

Obama didn’t just sit on a couple of foundation boards with Ayers. For one thing, Obama was effectively funding Ayers’ radical education projects, as well as the work of Ayers’ wife, Bernardine Dohrn, and the work of Ayers’ closest political allies.  Substantial evidence also indicates that it was Ayers who brought Obama onto the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. More shocking, it was almost certainly Obama himself who brought Ayers onto the Woods Fund Board….

Ayers and Obama were close political allies, not just two people who happened to be thrown into a room together. They were close enough to trust each other to fund their own work, and the work of their closest—and very radical—supporters. And they recruited each other to foundation posts for precisely this purpose.

The media let Obama slide on this, of course. A few strategic poo-pooings at sites like Snopes.com reassured everyone. And John McCain was too much of a “gentleman” to raise any of this in the campaign.

Obama Sprang a Murderous Bomber From Prison

Nor did media tar Obama as soft on domestic terror. Not even when he sprang from prison Oscar Lopez Rivera. Read Charles Lane at The Washington Post.

During the 1970s, Lopez Rivera headed a Chicago-based cell of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), which waged a futile but violent struggle to win Puerto Rican independence.

The FALN claimed responsibility for more than 120 bombings between 1974 and 1983 in a wave of senseless destruction that killed six and injured dozens. In 1981, a federal court in Chicago sentenced Lopez Rivera, then 37, to 55 years for seditious conspiracy, armed robbery, interstate transportation of firearms and conspiracy to transport explosives with intent to destroy government property.

Now, nobody wants Puerto Rican independence more than I do. (Seriously, the threat of that quasi-colony becoming a state with two Democratic senators keeps me up nights.) But that’s no reason to let an unrepentant terrorist go free.

Obama’s Racist Church

Long completely irreligious, Barack Obama only decided to become a Christian when he found just the right church. It was Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. There Wright gave fiery sermons espousing “Black Liberation Theology.” That’s a version of the Marxist-inspired Liberation Theology. But it focuses on race war rather than class war. Obama attended Wright’s church for years. Wright married Barack and Michelle Obama. He baptized their daughters. Obama adapted the title of The Audacity of Hope from one of Wright’s fiery sermons. Hillary Clinton commented in 2008, “”You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.”

It was only when a TV show aired clips from one of those sermons that Obama got worried. When there’s tape of your pastor shouting, “God DAMN America” on Good Morning America … well that’s a problem. Then, and only then, did Obama distance himself from Wright. Obama’s longtime pastor excused his protégé for doing this. He explained it away.”Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me,” he explained. “I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office.”

Death to Double Standards

Now, if Donald Trump had worked closely with a church-bombing leader of the Ku Klux Klan, I wouldn’t have voted for him. Not even to stop Hillary Clinton.

If Trump were tomorrow to spring from prison neo-Nazi terrorists from the group that calls itself The Order, every Republican in Congress and every evangelical pastor in America would join me in condemning him.

If Trump had only discovered Christianity at some chapel of the white separatist Aryan Nations, where he got married and baptized his children, he wouldn’t have won a single primary. He’d be a weird, marginal figure. And rightly so.

But Obama slipped past such scrutiny. He’s now an elder statesman.

So please, members of the media, don’t pretend that you really believe Donald Trump’s attacks on the press are to blame. That he is responsible because some steroid-addled former male stripper and career criminal who sent some (thank God) incompetently wired bombs, with plastered Trump stickers on his van. In which he lives, down by the river.

We can tell when you’re lying. What gives it away? Your lips are moving.