“President Trump said on Monday that he would have ordered American flags to half-staff to honor Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota state representative who was gunned down along with her husband in their home this summer, if he had been ‘asked’ to by the Democratic governor of her state,” the New York Times reports.

Said 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.”

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