Former President Trump refused to answer multiple questions on if he would sign a federal abortion ban into law if he were to win the 2024 presidential election during CNN’s disastrous Wednesday night town hall, a move reflective of the party’s broader flailing on the issue heading into the primaries.
Many TPMers upset, disappointed at her usurping of sacred space.
Soon realize: She’s a cat.
“CNN’s disastrous Wednesday night town hall”
Disastrous for CNN as it proved their ineptness and lack of integrity.
Disastrous for me, as I have a limited amount of hours and brain cells and cannot afford to waste them.
But please weigh in whether you think it was disastrous for Trump himself.
We’ve known it all along, but his apologists keep apologizing. It’s a riddle.
Trump has probably paid for abortions in the past, either for wives or mistresses, so he knows that someone may talk if he takes a stand on this before the election. He’ll sign whatever is put in front of him though, just like he nominated anti-abortion justices handed to him by the Federalist Society. This issue isn’t important to him, he’s not a Christian true believer (even though they try to portray him like that), so he’ll skate around it as long as possible.
He has plenty of other things to talk about so he can ignore this, and spin it…and once he’s the nominee it will go away because the Christian nationalists will vote for him no matter what he says.
Noticing from the video playback (didn’t watch it myself), the bastard couldn’t look Collins in the eye once while answering her questions. That says a lot! He’s a liar and traitor with absolutely no degree of being respectful and honest.
Was the CNN Klown Hall disastrous for Trump?
I came away with a clear understanding this man would pardon the convicted seditionists of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
I came away seeing plainly that this serial liar claimed credit for appointing three justices who claimed that Roe was “settled law” but then took the first opportunity to overturn it. And now he refuses to say he’d veto a national abortion ban.
I came away with a vivid memory of Trump, held liable by a jury verdict the day before for sexual abuse of a woman, publicly abusing a smart female journalist on national TV, calling her “nasty” as she did her job.
I may not label it “disastrous”. But I’d call that a bad outing for him if he hopes to persuade or motivate voters who aren’t already in his camp.
“I’ve given you the answer probably four times already. I’m looking at a solution that is going to work,” Trump snapped back.
Adding, “And it won’t be like Demonrats smothering newborns in the crib so they can sell them to Satanists for cannibal rituals with Hillary. Another reason to, ‘Lock her up!’”
If he thought it would help him, he’d absolutely say “Yes” to a federal abortion ban. The fact that he doesn’t is all you need to know about the popularity of the Republican position on abortion.
I’m all for it: dip him in catnip and let her have at him.
Does anyone know if he’s still in Tennessee?
He is directly responsible for the overturning of Roe and seemed to take credit. So now he is going to negotiate so people are happy? Really? Overturning Roe has been a disaster for Republicans. How is he supposed to negotiate around that?
Yes. And I seem to recall his saying, after the mid-terms, that Republicans shouldn’t have pushed for abortion legislation so hard, that that’s why there was no Red Wave. With the repeal of Roe, which is what he vowed to accomplish with his SCOTUS picks, what else did he want anti-abortion people to do?
Nothing is ever his fault, is it?
Misstated Article Headline: “Trump Flails” does it
Then he added, “It will be ready in two weeks and it will be the best infrastructure plan ever.”
One Republican representative, Tony Bacala, said he was voting against it because its author, Rep. Boyd, is the product of rape, and she turned out to be a good person.
Saving our democracy, reproductive rights, sensible gun safety regulation -seems to me that Dems could run on these three things.
Based on today’s blow back to the CNN endorsed Trump rally,
Trump took credit for overturning Roe
Spoke to hardening schools (whatever that means) wrt guns
Will pardon insurrectionists who tried to overturn the 2020 election.
Rump is know for many things but taking the stand isn’t one.
Trump’s answer surprises me and it shows his confidence that he will win the GOP nomination. The question is will this hurt Trump in his quest for the nomination.
That is the better strategy to get the GOP nomination is to say, “I will sign a bill if congress passes it”. But the better strategy to win a general election is exactly what Trump is doing, evading a direct answer until the general election when the electorate is different.
Why would it surprise you? His signature move is empty word-salad that attempts to straddle every position on controversial issues while avoiding all specifics, so that after others stick their necks out far enough to achieve a consensus he can take credit and say it was his idea from the very start.
Or, if the effort falls apart or becomes a political loser, he can claim he would have done it differently and this is all McConnell’s fault (or whoever). You can pretty much set your watch by it.
“What I’ll do is negotiate so that people are happy,”
The Art of the Deal is finding the common ground between the vast majority of the country and the hard core fanatics any GOPer needs to win election. Only he can do it.
