Jeb! Bush isn't sure what motivated the killer who 'wanted to start a race war'

Jeb! Bush becomes the latest Republican who just can't bring himself to admit that racism motivated the mass murder of nine African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday night:

"I don't know what was on the mind or the heart of the man who committed these atrocious crimes," Bush said in remarks at a Faith and Freedom Coalition summit in Washington.

Huh. Let's see if we can help old Jeb! out here. Has Dylann Roof himself said anything about why he did it?

One of the officials said that Roof, who is white, told investigators that he wanted to start a race war.

Did this killer say anything as he gunned these people down?

Sylvia Johnson, a cousin of church shooting victim Pastor Clementa Pinckney says she spoke with one of the survivors "and she said that he had reloaded five different times... and he just said 'I have to do it. You rape our women and you're taking over our country. And you have to go.'"

And did family or friends of Roof offer any insight?

There were many signs Roof had been planning an attack, telling his roommate he "wanted to start a civil war" and "was going to do something like that and then kill himself." He was infuriated by Trayvon Martin and Freddie Gray protests and told a friend something needed to be done for the sake of "the white race."

Yep, what was on Dylann Roof's mind when he murdered those nine African Americans remains a mystery. Could have been anything ... heck, maybe it was even an attack on Christianity.

Guess we'll never know ...