Minnesota lawmakers, family condemn Trump for sharing "outrageous" conspiracy theories on Melissa Hortman's assassinatio

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Minnesota lawmakers, family condemn Trump for sharing "outrageous" conspiracy theories on Melissa Hortman's assassination

Updated on: January 4, 2026 / 6:36 PM CST / CBS Minnesota


The children of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman are asking President Trump to remove a video he reposted on social media Saturday alleging Gov. Tim Walz is behind their mother's assassination.

Walz responded to the president's Truth Social post, saying 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," Walz said.

Hortman was shot and killed alongside her husband, Mark, and their dog, Gilbert, on June 14, 2025, inside the family's Brooklyn Park home. State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot and wounded in their Champlin home 90 minutes earlier.

Vance Boelter, 58, faces federal charges for the shootings, including two counts of murder. He allegedly dressed as a police officer and managed to evade arrest for 40 hours. According to prosecutors, Boelter had a hit list of lawmakers and other public officials, including staffers at Planned Parenthood. He pleaded not guilty in August..................




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[Martin Eden]

1. "America is better than this"

To prove that, America needs to remove from office its demented, criminal, narcissistic megalomaniacal president.

[barbtries]

2. I love Tim Walz,

but: whenever I hear "America is better than this" anymore, it stops my brain. no it is not. obviously, abundantly obviously, it is not. It is pretty fucking bad at the moment.

I can't hear that anymore. It's a lie.

[PatSeg]

3. I agree

Politicians need to retire that line. It just doesn't work anymore.

[Clouds Passing]

4. Agreed barbtries, the reality is America is not better than this.

[mn9driver]

5. CBS found exactly one Republican officeholder.

One. Who was willing to condemn the orange shitbird.

Their reporting indicates that the reaction was bipartisan. It wasn’t and isn’t. The headline is a CBS News lie.