Lanza lined up his victims like criminals, reveals Obama's pastor as he also describes President's intimate moments with Sandy Hook parents

Obama's chief pastor, Joshua Dubois, reveals how the President personally comforted the families of Sandy Hook victims in Connecticut



He says in his new book that Obama hugged the families, listened to their stories and gave the victims' young siblings a box of White House M&M's

Dubois also reveals gunman Adam Lanza lined up the children like criminals before shooting them

Barack Obama's Pastor-in-Chief has revealed how the President comforted Sandy Hook victims' families in the days after last year's elementary school massacre.



'The president took a deep breath and steeled himself, and went into the first classroom. And what happened next I will never forget,' Joshua DuBois, who joined the U.S. President in Newtown, Connecticut, said.



'Person after person received an engulfing hug from our commander in chief. He’d say, 'Tell me about your son. . . . Tell me about your daughter', and then hold pictures of the lost beloved as their parents described favorite foods, television shows, and the sound of their laughter.'

Spiritual guide: Joshua DuBois, Barack Obama's 'Pastor-in-Chief', has revealed in a new book how the U.S. President comforted families of Sandy Hook victims

Devastating: Mourner Jeanne Walker of Newtown walks through an overflowing memorial to the shooting victims in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Connecticut

Dubois has shared Obama's 'secret' tender moments with the devastated families in his new book, The President's Devotional: The Daily Readings That Inspired President Obama.



The day after the 14 December shooting, in which 26 people were gunned down by 20-year-old Adam Lanza, Obama asked Dubois to accompany him to Newtown to meet with victims' families.

Before Dubois left, FBI officials briefed him on the horrors of the massacre, including that the children were lined up and executed.

'How the gunman treated the children like criminals, lining them up to shoot them down,' Dubois wrote, according to Huffington Post.



'How so many bullets penetrated them that many were left unrecognizable.



'How the killer went from one classroom to another and would have gone farther if his rifle would’ve let him.'

Survivors: Connecticut State Police lead a line of children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School after the massacre which claimed the lives of 26 people

Tragic: Adam Lanza opened fire on staff and students at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012

Adam Lanza, 20, killed his mother at their home and then opened fire inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, killing 26 people, including 20 children, before taking his own life

When Obama arrived at Newtown High School where the meetings would take place, he was briefed on the circumstances of each family.



He then took a deep breath, and met with each grieving family in various classrooms over several hours and asked them to tell him their story.



'For the younger siblings of those who had passed away—many of them two, three, or four years old, too young to understand it all—the president would grab them and toss them, laughing, up into the air, and then hand them a box of White House M&M’s, which were always kept close at hand,' Dubois wrote.

'In each room, I saw his eyes water, but he did not break...E ven a president’s comfort was woefully inadequate for these families in the face of this particularly unspeakable loss.



'But it became some small measure of love, on a weekend when evil reigned.

'And the funny thing is—President Obama has never spoken about these meetings...It must have been one of the defining moments of his presidency, quiet hours in solemn classrooms, extending as much healing as was in his power to extend. But he kept it to himself.'

