When President Trump spoke of a murdered alumnus of his first administration, his press conference on Monday about crime in the nation’s capitol suddenly seemed like more than just another episode of Anything But Jeffrey Epstein.

“I lost a very good person a while ago, was shot waiting for his wife,“ Trump told reporters five minutes into the 77 minute session in the White House briefing room. “He was in the car. They robbed his car. They shot him. They killed him like it was nothing to it.”

The person in question was Mike Gill, a 56-year-old father of three and onetime chief of staff at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. “They” was in fact a single individual, 28-year-old Artel Cunningham.

“She was walking to the car,” Trump said of Gill’s wife, Kristina. “She was—it’s a horror

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