Jan. 5, 2026
Kids of Murdered Lawmaker Plead with Trump: Take Down That Post
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RSS Feed The children of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman are pleading with President Trump to remove a video he reposted on social media alleging Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is behind their mother and father’s assassinations. Governor Walz going even further, saying Trump’s post is going to “get more innocent people killed.”
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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks.
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Speaker 2: It is Monday, January fifth, and the children of a slain lawmaker are pleading with President Trump to please please take down a social media post saying this might be a necessary step towards decency. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.
00:00:24
Speaker 1: Roves.
00:00:25
Speaker 2: That's what stood out to me in this whole mess right now is basic decency. Step one is just the basic decency. What do you make of this whole story we're getting into, but just the idea that decency is at the forefront of this story.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and that you have children who are grieving, who just spent the holidays without their parents because of a political assassination, something that we have been talking about and dealing with sadly in the last few months. They're now having to ask it almost as if they're pleading with the president please please take this down. It fans and it fuels the flames of conspiracy theories, and it gets people killed.
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Speaker 2: And he says in the family here saying, mister President, you're hurting us. You are hurting this family all over again by what you're doing now. As many people know, the President is known to tweet quite a bit he's a true social We've had nights where he's absolutely put out one hundred posts overnight. He had a very active night again last night. But something that stood out Robes and what we're talking about is Melissa Hortman. A lot of people remember over the summer there was a man who seemed to be on a tear at least, going around shooting lawmakers, targeting lawmakers in Minnesota. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed that evening. Their children are the ones now speaking out because ropes the president has put out or re posted, I should say, a video that suggests that the current governor of Minnesota was in some way tied to the deaths of this state lawmaker, which is just preposterous.
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Speaker 3: At this point, it's fantasy, it's preposterous. And this has been going on since the actual gunman was apprehended. There was a letter that they found in his vehicle addressed to FBI Director Cash Pattel where and you all everyone who has read this letter said it is delusional, But he said that he committed this assassination, these assassinations, and certainly these shootings because they weren't the only ones who were injured and ultimately killed in this attack, but he claims that Governor Tim Waltz.
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Speaker 4: Told him to.
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Speaker 3: Do it, asked him to do it because he wanted to become a senator, so we asked him to take out other lawmakers.
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Speaker 4: It was pure fantasy.
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Speaker 3: According to everyone who read this letter, it was the law enforcement correct. Yes, everyone has debunked this letter. But to take a letter written by someone who now stands facing multiple federal murder charges, to take that and to make it seem as though it were fact or to fuel this conspiracy theory that somehow Tim Waltz was behind these assassinations in Minnesota, in his own state by members of his own party, is a preposterous notion.
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Speaker 2: Conspiracy theories are going to be out there online NonStop. When the President of the United States posts something like this, it elevates it and it moves it to another level. We know as of late, not even as of late, but for a long time. I mean this guy with the VP candidate, Tim Waltz. He has had problems with Tim Waltz for a long time and has gone after him in every chance he can. The whole issue now with some alli's in that state and the old child care or daycare fraud investigations going on. There's legit fraud. I think everybody admits there. But the president has now taken this and targeted the Somali community, targeted ilhan Omar, and targeted Tim Waltz. So he is taking advantage of a situation. This now elevates it. And if there is some decency in there when the children are saying, mister president, I mean, is he even going to get this message? But I would imagine this was such an impassioned thing, and we can get into their statements now, but the two kids, I mean, how could he not take this down?
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Speaker 3: This is a and you say impassioned plea to the president that this is not about politics. This is about, as you pointed earlier, babe, human decency. This is about recognizing that when you make or at least you put out or you elevate certain conspiracy theories, it isn't just about politics. It isn't just about getting votes and getting people on your side, you are actually hurting people and harming people. Tim Waltz went even further and said, you are potentially getting more innocent people killed by putting this type of thing out there, and elevating it on your truth social post. But Colin Hortman and Sophie Hortman are the children of former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. Here is what Colin Hortman said, My father and mother, Mark and Melissa Hortman, and their dog Gilbert were killed by a man who believed conspiracy theories and fake news words matter. Sharing fake news is dangerous. One part of my grief journey has been understanding the last conversation with my mother. She loved her job, people respected her job and what she did at her job. So he talks about the vote that a lot of people have pointed to is the reason behind her death, which has been largely debunked, and this is all fueling this conspiracy theory. But at the end of the day, he talks about how all of that is untrue and says, I am asking President Trump to remove the video that he shared and apologize to me and my family for posting this misinformation and for using my mother's own words to dishonor her memory.
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Speaker 2: You know, I think it's a stretch to get him to take it down. I think it's beyond a stretch to expect him to apologize. I think that's probably fair, but this is worrying.
00:06:16
Speaker 1: Robes.
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Speaker 2: We talk about political assassinations, we have actually seen them in this country as of late, and he's putting a target on you. Actually, the president is promoting the possibility of a sitting governor being a criminal to the point of having someone else killed. In some people's twisted minds, in some circles, that means Tim walt is a criminal and he is a target to be taken out justifiably.
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Speaker 1: That is worrying.
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Speaker 3: Babey went onto Twitter Let's worry or x and I saw to what you're saying. I saw this original post and other lots of people have reposted it, not just the president.
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Speaker 4: When you read the comment events, it is scary. People are absolutely.
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Speaker 3: One hundred percent believing this, saying why hasn't Tim Waltz been arrested, Why is he still allowed to be governor? What is it going to take for people to understand that Tim Walls was behind these murders? I mean, really, it's scary, one comment after another, So, yes, this does matter.
00:07:23
Speaker 4: And we didn't just hear from Colin.
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Speaker 3: We heard from Sophie as well, and I wanted to read a little bit of her statement as well. The video being shared by the President is another hurdle our family must overcome in grieving the loss of my parents, Mark and Melissa and their beloved dog, Gilbert. I ask President Trump to please consider the pain and sadness we have faced and to honor the spirit of the holidays we have just spent without our parents. By taking down the post on truth social we must create a society in which we do not harbor hatred and violence toward our political opponents. And this, this video promotes a false narrative which fuels the flames of political division.
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Speaker 5: Well done.
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Speaker 2: They could have been a I mean they again I say impassion, But that was well done.
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Speaker 1: It was well said.
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Speaker 2: I think it was even mentioning the holidays like that was a plea, like if nothing else do we just came through?
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Speaker 1: That was This is tough.
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Speaker 2: I don't expect I don't think anybody expects anything to come of this. I would love for it to do to to be the case. I would love for the President to reach out. I would love for a nice moment because the President had there's a good bone in that body.
00:08:34
Speaker 5: There is there absolutely is.
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Speaker 2: Well whatever issues people have with them, and this was an appeal to like children. I didn't catch the ages of the kids here, but and you wrote, I think you have spent more time studying the statements this morning than I have. But is there anything in it that reeked of politics or even necessarily anger. Maybe they're upset, but it didn't seem like they're they were directing anger towards the president.
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Speaker 3: No, And that was actually what was so beautiful about it. It really came off as a plea, please understand the pain you're causing and the harm you could actually be inciting by your words. It felt like they were almost begging the president please out of the word you use decency, please take it down, but also out of concern that this could actually continue this cycle of violence we are seeing politically speaking, even you know in this in this rampage. The man who ended up actually committing all of this violence we mentioned obviously he killed the Hortman's.
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Speaker 4: Parents, but also shot at other members of.
00:09:43
Speaker 3: The state legislature, the Hoffman's and so the state Senator John Hoffin and his wife Yvette, who were shot and wounded. I guess ninety minutes before the Hortmans were killed. They put out a statement saying they stand with Sophie and Colin Hortman. They say, we asked President Trump to take down the post spreading CONSPI claims about their parents' deaths. Those claims reflect the same hateful falsehoods that motivated violence and caused more harm. This moment caused for responsibility and compassion. Removing the post would be a necessary step towards your word, babe, decency. And so that is what we heard from the Hoffman's and that certainly has been the sentiment by many folks in Minnesota who have stepped up and condemned with the president reposted. But we have not heard anything from the White House. And we were actually thinking as we were reading all of these impassioned statements asking the President for a lot of reasons to take the post down. You said, have we even checked to see if he took it down. We had to go through a lot of his truth social posts and it is still up. And that's not that surprising. It's not as if we expected him to take it down. But certainly there has been no response officially from the White House. Based on the reaction from the Hortman's and the Hoffmans.
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Speaker 2: No, I don't know if we'll necessarily get one from the world White House, but I with President Trumpet. If you go through his social media posts, a lot of them aren't his own words. We end up reading a lot of them. But he does spend a lot a lot of time reposting things. This was one. I don't know how he has time to do it. This too, take a takes a little bit of a deep dive. It takes a little bit of time to find all these things. I don't know if they're coming to him, if somebody's pointing them out, or if he does spend a lot of time scrolling.
00:11:29
Speaker 5: It seems like he wouldn't have that.
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Speaker 2: Kind of time, you know that's been going on around the world to our South military ACA.
00:11:37
Speaker 4: He's a little busy this weekend.
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Speaker 5: It's and it's bizarre that he would have time for this and why and why now it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The only theory we can come up with we've hit on a little bit, but we'll hit on it a little more when we come back.
00:11:53
Speaker 1: Stay here, folks, We continue here on Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: A busy weekend, certainly with a lot of news folks saw about what was happening in Venezuela, the fact that we got Nicholas mar Maduro. He was chilling in a fortress in his home presidential palace a couple of nights ago, and he is literally sleeping across the bridge from us at the MDC the same jailware did he was. All of that's been going on with the President had time to repost something over the weekend. They quite frankly set off the family of Melissa Hortman, who was killed, shot and killed state lawmaker in Minnesota. All remember that over the summer.
00:12:41
Speaker 1: Robes.
00:12:41
Speaker 2: I don't imagine we are going to get a retraction of any kind, an apology of any kind, or even a takedown. I don't remember any other time that the president has gone my bad about anything on his social media.
00:12:57
Speaker 3: I was just going to ask, you, can you recall because I cannot a moment in which he acknowledged he overstepped, or he needed to take something down, or he reacted too strongly. I've never heard him walk back a statement he's made or a post he's put up.
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Speaker 4: I can't recall one.
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Speaker 2: And there's a reason we shouldn't. Probably expect him to do so this time we mentioned earlier, or when things aren't necessarily going well for the president, when we see his polling numbers, his polling numbers on the economy, when he seems to be I guess politically losing some fight, he finds one. He finds one that can really fire up his people, and a lot of his people right now are even pissed about what happened in Venezuela, like this isn't what we were supposed to be doing. Its supposed to be America first, less of this stuff around the world. But he's found an issue here lately in Minnesota with Tim Waltz and with these daycare fraud investigations and with Somali's and those seem to be at least issues that his base.
00:14:05
Speaker 1: Are going to follow him on.
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Speaker 2: So what we're seeing now in this post, it doesn't bode well for him backing off, if you.
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Speaker 3: Will correct, I think if you go through his truth Social it's either about Venezuela or it's about Minnesota, and between those two things that pretty much has taken up most of his truth Social posts over the weekend, and they have been plentiful. As you pointed, out, and I mentioned a little bit about Tim Waltz's response, but I actually wanted to read his full statement just because it is interesting and I think he should be able to have a fair shake in terms of obviously all the fingers pointing towards him in this truth social post. But Tim Waltz officially said this, it is dangerous, depraved behavior from the sitting president of the United States in covering for an actual serial killer. He is going to get more innocent people killed. America is better than this.
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Speaker 2: Well, he thought so, right, We thought so. But we keep taking it, We keep tolerating. This doesn't even outrage anybody. That's where we are, and that's the truth of the matter. And all of us can say if any other president posted this, called a woman a pig to her face, if any other president did so much of this stuff, we would lose it. And this is just another Monday.
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Speaker 3: This is just another Monday, and there is going to potentially be we're going to be hearing from Tim Waltz actually speaking of Monday. Later on this morning, he is called a presser at eleven AM. Some people are saying he actually is going to be dropping out of the race.
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Speaker 4: From Minnesota governor.
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Speaker 3: He had been seeking or is currently seeking a third term there in Minnesota. But is certainly all of the scandals and this fraud probe that certainly has left what set. More than seventy people have been charged so far, So it's a legitimate concern and a legitimate potential misuse of tax dollars significant amounts. So it's all an important news story. But to politicize it further and to deliberately propagate or promote known conspiracy theories is alarming at any level in the government, but certainly coming at it from the top office in our government is deeply concerning.
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Speaker 1: Well, keep an eye.
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Speaker 2: On Trump's truth social today between this issue and I'm sure if Tim Walt starts speaking at eleven, Trump will be posting by eleven oh one. I'm sure I am today all right, Well, folks are keeping a close eye on everything. Also, keep an eye out. We'll have the morning run up for you here in a little bit. We just want to hop on and give you some overnight developments. But with that we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm TJ. Holmes on behalf of my dear Amy Roboch. We will talk to about
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks.
00:00:02
Speaker 2: It is Monday, January fifth, and the children of a slain lawmaker are pleading with President Trump to please please take down a social media post saying this might be a necessary step towards decency. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.
00:00:24
Speaker 1: Roves.
00:00:25
Speaker 2: That's what stood out to me in this whole mess right now is basic decency. Step one is just the basic decency. What do you make of this whole story we're getting into, but just the idea that decency is at the forefront of this story.
00:00:43
Speaker 3: Yes, and that you have children who are grieving, who just spent the holidays without their parents because of a political assassination, something that we have been talking about and dealing with sadly in the last few months. They're now having to ask it almost as if they're pleading with the president please please take this down. It fans and it fuels the flames of conspiracy theories, and it gets people killed.
00:01:16
Speaker 2: And he says in the family here saying, mister President, you're hurting us. You are hurting this family all over again by what you're doing now. As many people know, the President is known to tweet quite a bit he's a true social We've had nights where he's absolutely put out one hundred posts overnight. He had a very active night again last night. But something that stood out Robes and what we're talking about is Melissa Hortman. A lot of people remember over the summer there was a man who seemed to be on a tear at least, going around shooting lawmakers, targeting lawmakers in Minnesota. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed that evening. Their children are the ones now speaking out because ropes the president has put out or re posted, I should say, a video that suggests that the current governor of Minnesota was in some way tied to the deaths of this state lawmaker, which is just preposterous.
00:02:15
Speaker 3: At this point, it's fantasy, it's preposterous. And this has been going on since the actual gunman was apprehended. There was a letter that they found in his vehicle addressed to FBI Director Cash Pattel where and you all everyone who has read this letter said it is delusional, But he said that he committed this assassination, these assassinations, and certainly these shootings because they weren't the only ones who were injured and ultimately killed in this attack, but he claims that Governor Tim Waltz.
00:02:49
Speaker 4: Told him to.
00:02:50
Speaker 3: Do it, asked him to do it because he wanted to become a senator, so we asked him to take out other lawmakers.
00:02:55
Speaker 4: It was pure fantasy.
00:02:56
Speaker 3: According to everyone who read this letter, it was the law enforcement correct. Yes, everyone has debunked this letter. But to take a letter written by someone who now stands facing multiple federal murder charges, to take that and to make it seem as though it were fact or to fuel this conspiracy theory that somehow Tim Waltz was behind these assassinations in Minnesota, in his own state by members of his own party, is a preposterous notion.
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Speaker 2: Conspiracy theories are going to be out there online NonStop. When the President of the United States posts something like this, it elevates it and it moves it to another level. We know as of late, not even as of late, but for a long time. I mean this guy with the VP candidate, Tim Waltz. He has had problems with Tim Waltz for a long time and has gone after him in every chance he can. The whole issue now with some alli's in that state and the old child care or daycare fraud investigations going on. There's legit fraud. I think everybody admits there. But the president has now taken this and targeted the Somali community, targeted ilhan Omar, and targeted Tim Waltz. So he is taking advantage of a situation. This now elevates it. And if there is some decency in there when the children are saying, mister president, I mean, is he even going to get this message? But I would imagine this was such an impassioned thing, and we can get into their statements now, but the two kids, I mean, how could he not take this down?
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Speaker 3: This is a and you say impassioned plea to the president that this is not about politics. This is about, as you pointed earlier, babe, human decency. This is about recognizing that when you make or at least you put out or you elevate certain conspiracy theories, it isn't just about politics. It isn't just about getting votes and getting people on your side, you are actually hurting people and harming people. Tim Waltz went even further and said, you are potentially getting more innocent people killed by putting this type of thing out there, and elevating it on your truth social post. But Colin Hortman and Sophie Hortman are the children of former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. Here is what Colin Hortman said, My father and mother, Mark and Melissa Hortman, and their dog Gilbert were killed by a man who believed conspiracy theories and fake news words matter. Sharing fake news is dangerous. One part of my grief journey has been understanding the last conversation with my mother. She loved her job, people respected her job and what she did at her job. So he talks about the vote that a lot of people have pointed to is the reason behind her death, which has been largely debunked, and this is all fueling this conspiracy theory. But at the end of the day, he talks about how all of that is untrue and says, I am asking President Trump to remove the video that he shared and apologize to me and my family for posting this misinformation and for using my mother's own words to dishonor her memory.
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Speaker 2: You know, I think it's a stretch to get him to take it down. I think it's beyond a stretch to expect him to apologize. I think that's probably fair, but this is worrying.
00:06:16
Speaker 1: Robes.
00:06:17
Speaker 2: We talk about political assassinations, we have actually seen them in this country as of late, and he's putting a target on you. Actually, the president is promoting the possibility of a sitting governor being a criminal to the point of having someone else killed. In some people's twisted minds, in some circles, that means Tim walt is a criminal and he is a target to be taken out justifiably.
00:06:47
Speaker 1: That is worrying.
00:06:48
Speaker 3: Babey went onto Twitter Let's worry or x and I saw to what you're saying. I saw this original post and other lots of people have reposted it, not just the president.
00:06:59
Speaker 4: When you read the comment events, it is scary. People are absolutely.
00:07:05
Speaker 3: One hundred percent believing this, saying why hasn't Tim Waltz been arrested, Why is he still allowed to be governor? What is it going to take for people to understand that Tim Walls was behind these murders? I mean, really, it's scary, one comment after another, So, yes, this does matter.
00:07:23
Speaker 4: And we didn't just hear from Colin.
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Speaker 3: We heard from Sophie as well, and I wanted to read a little bit of her statement as well. The video being shared by the President is another hurdle our family must overcome in grieving the loss of my parents, Mark and Melissa and their beloved dog, Gilbert. I ask President Trump to please consider the pain and sadness we have faced and to honor the spirit of the holidays we have just spent without our parents. By taking down the post on truth social we must create a society in which we do not harbor hatred and violence toward our political opponents. And this, this video promotes a false narrative which fuels the flames of political division.
00:08:05
Speaker 5: Well done.
00:08:07
Speaker 2: They could have been a I mean they again I say impassion, But that was well done.
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Speaker 1: It was well said.
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Speaker 2: I think it was even mentioning the holidays like that was a plea, like if nothing else do we just came through?
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Speaker 1: That was This is tough.
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Speaker 2: I don't expect I don't think anybody expects anything to come of this. I would love for it to do to to be the case. I would love for the President to reach out. I would love for a nice moment because the President had there's a good bone in that body.
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Speaker 5: There is there absolutely is.
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Speaker 2: Well whatever issues people have with them, and this was an appeal to like children. I didn't catch the ages of the kids here, but and you wrote, I think you have spent more time studying the statements this morning than I have. But is there anything in it that reeked of politics or even necessarily anger. Maybe they're upset, but it didn't seem like they're they were directing anger towards the president.
00:09:00
Speaker 3: No, And that was actually what was so beautiful about it. It really came off as a plea, please understand the pain you're causing and the harm you could actually be inciting by your words. It felt like they were almost begging the president please out of the word you use decency, please take it down, but also out of concern that this could actually continue this cycle of violence we are seeing politically speaking, even you know in this in this rampage. The man who ended up actually committing all of this violence we mentioned obviously he killed the Hortman's.
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Speaker 4: Parents, but also shot at other members of.
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Speaker 3: The state legislature, the Hoffman's and so the state Senator John Hoffin and his wife Yvette, who were shot and wounded. I guess ninety minutes before the Hortmans were killed. They put out a statement saying they stand with Sophie and Colin Hortman. They say, we asked President Trump to take down the post spreading CONSPI claims about their parents' deaths. Those claims reflect the same hateful falsehoods that motivated violence and caused more harm. This moment caused for responsibility and compassion. Removing the post would be a necessary step towards your word, babe, decency. And so that is what we heard from the Hoffman's and that certainly has been the sentiment by many folks in Minnesota who have stepped up and condemned with the president reposted. But we have not heard anything from the White House. And we were actually thinking as we were reading all of these impassioned statements asking the President for a lot of reasons to take the post down. You said, have we even checked to see if he took it down. We had to go through a lot of his truth social posts and it is still up. And that's not that surprising. It's not as if we expected him to take it down. But certainly there has been no response officially from the White House. Based on the reaction from the Hortman's and the Hoffmans.
00:10:55
Speaker 2: No, I don't know if we'll necessarily get one from the world White House, but I with President Trumpet. If you go through his social media posts, a lot of them aren't his own words. We end up reading a lot of them. But he does spend a lot a lot of time reposting things. This was one. I don't know how he has time to do it. This too, take a takes a little bit of a deep dive. It takes a little bit of time to find all these things. I don't know if they're coming to him, if somebody's pointing them out, or if he does spend a lot of time scrolling.
00:11:29
Speaker 5: It seems like he wouldn't have that.
00:11:31
Speaker 2: Kind of time, you know that's been going on around the world to our South military ACA.
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Speaker 4: He's a little busy this weekend.
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Speaker 5: It's and it's bizarre that he would have time for this and why and why now it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The only theory we can come up with we've hit on a little bit, but we'll hit on it a little more when we come back.
00:11:53
Speaker 1: Stay here, folks, We continue here on Amy and TJ.
00:12:06
Speaker 2: A busy weekend, certainly with a lot of news folks saw about what was happening in Venezuela, the fact that we got Nicholas mar Maduro. He was chilling in a fortress in his home presidential palace a couple of nights ago, and he is literally sleeping across the bridge from us at the MDC the same jailware did he was. All of that's been going on with the President had time to repost something over the weekend. They quite frankly set off the family of Melissa Hortman, who was killed, shot and killed state lawmaker in Minnesota. All remember that over the summer.
00:12:41
Speaker 1: Robes.
00:12:41
Speaker 2: I don't imagine we are going to get a retraction of any kind, an apology of any kind, or even a takedown. I don't remember any other time that the president has gone my bad about anything on his social media.
00:12:57
Speaker 3: I was just going to ask, you, can you recall because I cannot a moment in which he acknowledged he overstepped, or he needed to take something down, or he reacted too strongly. I've never heard him walk back a statement he's made or a post he's put up.
00:13:16
Speaker 4: I can't recall one.
00:13:17
Speaker 2: And there's a reason we shouldn't. Probably expect him to do so this time we mentioned earlier, or when things aren't necessarily going well for the president, when we see his polling numbers, his polling numbers on the economy, when he seems to be I guess politically losing some fight, he finds one. He finds one that can really fire up his people, and a lot of his people right now are even pissed about what happened in Venezuela, like this isn't what we were supposed to be doing. Its supposed to be America first, less of this stuff around the world. But he's found an issue here lately in Minnesota with Tim Waltz and with these daycare fraud investigations and with Somali's and those seem to be at least issues that his base.
00:14:05
Speaker 1: Are going to follow him on.
00:14:07
Speaker 2: So what we're seeing now in this post, it doesn't bode well for him backing off, if you.
00:14:15
Speaker 3: Will correct, I think if you go through his truth Social it's either about Venezuela or it's about Minnesota, and between those two things that pretty much has taken up most of his truth Social posts over the weekend, and they have been plentiful. As you pointed, out, and I mentioned a little bit about Tim Waltz's response, but I actually wanted to read his full statement just because it is interesting and I think he should be able to have a fair shake in terms of obviously all the fingers pointing towards him in this truth social post. But Tim Waltz officially said this, it is dangerous, depraved behavior from the sitting president of the United States in covering for an actual serial killer. He is going to get more innocent people killed. America is better than this.
00:15:00
Speaker 2: Well, he thought so, right, We thought so. But we keep taking it, We keep tolerating. This doesn't even outrage anybody. That's where we are, and that's the truth of the matter. And all of us can say if any other president posted this, called a woman a pig to her face, if any other president did so much of this stuff, we would lose it. And this is just another Monday.
00:15:27
Speaker 3: This is just another Monday, and there is going to potentially be we're going to be hearing from Tim Waltz actually speaking of Monday. Later on this morning, he is called a presser at eleven AM. Some people are saying he actually is going to be dropping out of the race.
00:15:41
Speaker 4: From Minnesota governor.
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Speaker 3: He had been seeking or is currently seeking a third term there in Minnesota. But is certainly all of the scandals and this fraud probe that certainly has left what set. More than seventy people have been charged so far, So it's a legitimate concern and a legitimate potential misuse of tax dollars significant amounts. So it's all an important news story. But to politicize it further and to deliberately propagate or promote known conspiracy theories is alarming at any level in the government, but certainly coming at it from the top office in our government is deeply concerning.
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Speaker 1: Well, keep an eye.
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Speaker 2: On Trump's truth social today between this issue and I'm sure if Tim Walt starts speaking at eleven, Trump will be posting by eleven oh one. I'm sure I am today all right, Well, folks are keeping a close eye on everything. Also, keep an eye out. We'll have the morning run up for you here in a little bit. We just want to hop on and give you some overnight developments. But with that we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm TJ. Holmes on behalf of my dear Amy Roboch. We will talk to about