President Donald Trump said he wasn’t aware of Democratic Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, who a gunman assassinated in June.
Speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, Trump was asked by a reporter whether, in retrospect, he thinks it would have been fitting to lower the flag in honor of Hortman, given the tributes to the assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
“I’m not familiar. The — who?” Trump responded.
After the reporter explained who it was, Trump gave an understanding, “Oh.”
“Well, if the governor had asked me to do that, I would have done that,” he said. “But the governor of Minnesota didn’t ask me. I wouldn’t have thought of that, but I would have if somebody had asked me.”
“People make requests for the
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