Following the horrific shooting by a white man in a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, that left nine dead, Brandon Friedman, a former Obama administration official, attempted to connect a statement by SC Gov. Nikki Haley about the Confederate flag. 

Friedman, who served as deputy assistant secretary for public affairs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, leaving June 4, has made headlines for his tweets before. During the height of the Bowe Bergdahl controversy, Friedman defended the alleged deserter by asking, "What if his platoon was long on psychopaths and short on leadership?"

After the apparent hate crime shooting Wednesday night, Friedman tweeted, "In October, Gov. Nikki Haley defended flying the Confederate flag outside the South Carolina statehouse." Along with the link to the story, he suggestively attached #Charleston:

TheBlaze's Dana Loesch called Friedman out on the "absolutely classless" post:

H/t The Blaze.