President Donald Trump briefly suggested that he was "not familiar" with murdered Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman during a recent Oval Office press briefing. On Monday, Sept. 15, a reporter asked Trump whether he thought it would have “been fitting to lower the flags to half staff” when Hortman — the Democratic leader of the Minnesota House — was killed alongside her husband at their home in June. Trump did not lower American flags after the Minnesota violence made national news, but recently directed flags to be lowered following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. In response to the reporter's question about Hortman, Trump, 79, said, “I’m not familiar. The who?”
