The exchange began when the reporter asked about the tributes paid by the White House to Kirk, the founder of the conservative youth activist group Turning Point USA and a close ally of the president and his family.
"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?" asked Nancy Cordes, the chief White House correspondent for CBS News.
"I'm not familiar. The who?" Trump replied, leaning in across the Resolute Desk.
"The Minnesota house speaker, a Democrat, who was assassinated this summer," she said.
"Oh," Trump replied. "Well, if the governor had asked me to do that, I would have done that."…
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