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Barack Obama survived at least 11–13 assassination attempts during his presidency. Let that sink in. In November 2011, a right-wing extremist named Oscar Ortega-Hernandez fired 25 rounds of semi-automatic rifle fire at the White House. At least 7 bullets struck the second floor residence. Sasha Obama — a child — was inside the building. Her grandmother was with her. Malia was minutes away from coming home. The Secret Service didn't even realize the White House had been shot for four days. Obama was also targeted in Denver during the 2008 campaign, in Turkey by a Syrian man posing as a journalist, and by a group of white supremacists in Tennessee who plotted a murder spree ending with a drive-by shooting at Obama. Joe Biden was targeted by Iran-backed operatives in an assassination plot. A neo-Nazi tried to ram a truck into the White House to kill him. A Utah man armed and threatening his life was shot dead when the FBI came to arrest him. And what did Obama and Biden do? They handled it. Quietly. Professionally. Moved on. We barely remember any of it — because neither of them turned a security threat into a fundraising campaign, a victimhood tour, or a taxpayer-funded vanity project. Meanwhile, we are currently being asked — as American taxpayers — to foot the bill for a personal bunker and ballroom at Mar-a-Lago because Donald Trump has apparently decided that the proper response to threats on a president's life is to turn the White House into a construction site and his Florida resort into a palace on the public dime. A child was asleep in the White House while bullets hit the walls. We didn't hear about it for days. And the president didn't use it to sell anything. That's what actual leadership looks like.