Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Tuesday slammed President Trump for not speaking compassionately about slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman (D) after she and her husband, Mark, were gunned down in their home. “There’s no compassion, there’s no empathy in this man, and there’s no sense of governing for the whole country,” Walz said during a Tuesday appearance on MSNBC’s “The Briefing.”
“We had a horrific act of political violence and the loss of an exceptional human being, a mom,” the governor said of Hortman’s death. A gunman dressed as a police officer targeted Hortman’s home in June during a “politically motivated” attack. On Monday, the president said he did not know who a reporter was referring to while being asked why he chose not to lower flags for the slain Minnesota lawmaker, while o