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Kids of Murdered Lawmaker Plead with Trump: Take Down That Post

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🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

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0:05.8

Hey there, folks. It is Monday, January 5th, 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.

0:26.7

And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs, that's what stood out to me in this

0:30.9

whole mess right now is basic decency. Step one is just the basic decency. What do you make of, this whole story we're

0:41.1

getting into, but just the idea that decency is at the forefront of this story. Yes, and that

0:48.6

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.

1:04.5

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

1:17.3

the flames of conspiracy theories and it gets people killed. And he says, the family here is saying,

1:23.6

Mr. President, you're hurting us. You are hurting this family all over again by what you're doing.

1:27.9

Now, as many people know, the president is known to tweet quite a bit. He uses true social.

1:33.5

We've had nights where he's absolutely put out 100 posts overnight. He had a very active night again last night.

1:39.6

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

1:49.3

shooting lawmakers, targeting lawmakers in Minnesota. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed

1:55.9

that evening. Their children are the ones now speaking out because ropes the president has put out

2:02.1

or reposted, I should say, a video that suggests that the current governor of Minnesota

2:11.0

was in some way tied to the deaths of this state lawmaker, which is just preposterous at this point.

2:20.3

It's fantasy. It's preposterous. And this has been going on since the actual gunman was

2:26.1

apprehended. There was a letter that they found in his vehicle addressed to FBI director

2:31.7

Cash Patel, where, and you all all everyone who has read this letter said it is

2:37.4

delusional but he said that he committed this assassination these assassinations and certainly

2:44.0

these shootings because they weren't the only ones who were injured and ultimately killed in this

2:49.5

attack but he claims that governor Tim Walts told him to do it,

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