"REPORTER: Do you think it would have been fitting to lower the flags to half-staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin as well? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who? REPORTER: The Minnesota House Speaker, a Democrat TRUMP: Oh. REPORTER: who was assassinated this summer, and the TRUMP: Well, if the Governor had asked me to do that, I would have done that, but the Governor of Minnesota didn't ask me."
"The killing of Charlie Kirk and the manhunt that ended in the arrest of suspect Tyler Robinson have dominated the news media since the shooting unfolded live last Wednesday. One political subplot of the story has been criticism that Trump ordered the lowering of flags for Kirk,"
Kaitlan Collins confronted President Donald Trump over his responses about lowering flags for slain Minnesota lawmakers Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman, presenting a past Oval Office clip. The clip shows a reporter asking whether lowering flags would have been fitting for Hortman, and Trump replying he was not familiar and that he would have lowered flags only if the governor had asked. The controversy follows the publicized killing of Charlie Kirk and the arrest of suspect Tyler Robinson. Critics note Trump ordered flags at half-staff for Kirk but did not do so for the Minnesota lawmakers killed in June.
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