President Donald Trump has said he will not call Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after an alleged MAGA supporter carried out political assassinations in the state.
"I don't really call him," Trump told CNN's Kaitlin Collins this week. "He appointed this guy to a position. I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out. I'm not calling him."
"He's a mess," the president added. "So, you know, I could be nice and call him, but why waste time?"
Walz reappointed alleged gunman Vance Boeltner in 2019 to a workforce development advisory board to which he'd first been added three years earlier by then-Gov. Mark Dayton, but the governor's office said he did not know him.
Former Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu criticized Trump for refusing to call Walz, who had been Kamala Harris' running mate in last year's presidential election.
"It doesn't help," Sununu explained. "It definitely doesn't... Folks are forgetting people have lost their lives here."
