After Melissa Hortman and husband and dog's brutal point-blank murders by ASSASSIN now on trial in Minnesota, he . . .

 said calling Gov. Tim Walz

of Minneapolis-St. Paul,

would be a "waste of time"

NOW claims he can't identify

the governor nor remembers

being asked to lower flags

to half-mast this summer . . .

also injured was another

MN lawmaker and his spouse.