Trump at first says he is ‘not familiar’ with Minnesota Democrat’s assassination | Donald Trump
Donald Trump initially said that he was not “familiar to the case.
The question appeared on Monday during a briefing in the Oval Office, the President’s order to reduce flags in response to the murder of the President’s right -wing activist Charlie Kirk last week.
Trump pressures why he and the Republicans continue to accuse the left for an increase in political violence when the elected officials and activists from both sides became targeted.
The stock exchange began when the tribute paid by the correspondent White House, the conservative youth activist group Turning Point, the founder of the US and the President and his family, began when he asked.
“When you are shot by a assassin, Melissa Hortman, Speaker of the Parliament of Minnesota, is also appropriate to download the flags to half staff?” CBS News headed head White House correspondent Nancy Cordes.
I’m not familiar. Who? Trump responded by leaning on the determined table.
“A democratic minnesota Assembly Speaker of the Assassination of this summer,” he said.
“Oh,” Trump replied. “If the governor had asked me to do this, I would do that.”
In 2024, Trump did not mention the name of a Democratic and Vice President of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, but claimed that the White House would have been forced if he had made the request.
Im I wouldn’t think of that, but if someone had asked me, Tr Trump said. “People demand for the lowering of the flag, and often you should say no, because this would have a lot of decrease.”
At that time, Trump said that talking to Walz, a close friend of Hortman, would be a “waste of time”.
“I can be beautiful and I can call, but why should he waste time?” Trump told Walz that he was referring to as “he went out” and “mess”.
Kirk was shot deadly while talking at Utah Valley University last week. Following his death, Trump and other leading conservatives tried to place the crime as square for political violence, and promised the left -wing groups to the left wing groups and the institutions they claimed to have “financed and support it”.
As the Republicans upset the loss of kirk, they greatly ignored violence against democrats, including Hortman’s assassination, to the house of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s house, former speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi, and a michigan Vallosi’s husband, Gretchen Whitty.
The Parliamentary Republicans and a handful of Democrats gathered in a prayer watch for Kirk in Capitol Hill on Monday. In short, the representative of the Republican from Minnesota, Tom Emmer, has recently been reflected in political violence, including the murder of Hortman by a “another bad coward” that attracted a second democratic state deputy that night.
Trump survived two assassinations during the 2024 Presidential campaign, rejected that he blamed the “one side ara on Monday of accusing of“ enormous violence ..
“Radikal Sol really caused many problems for this country,” he said. “I really think they hate our country.”
Early on Monday, JD Vance, Vice President of Kirk’s, said that he hoped to be a national “unity” while hosting the massacred activist’s podcast. But then he insisted that the democrats would be accused of primarily, despite the widespread condemnation of the murder of Kirk by party officials and elected leaders.
During the long episode, Vance did not refer to other political violence, such as the January 6 attack on Hortman or the US Capitol.
“Something went very wrong on a crazy eave – the minority, but a strong minority that grows on the left, ve and committed the federal government to use the arms of the Federal government to“ dismantle the institutions that encourage violence and terrorism in our own country ”.
