Posted on 07/09/2015 7:51:43 PM PDT by conservativejoy
Businessman Donald Trump today announced that he is officially running for the Republican nomination for president. Trump has previously indicated he is pro-life on the issue of abortion.
“I am officially running for president of the United States and we are going to make our country great again,” Trump said in remarks this morning at New York City’s Trump Tower.
Trump’s entry into the race makes him the 12th Republican to seek the nomination, following pro-life former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who announced on Monday. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are other pro-life Republicans expected to join the crowded field.
Trump has indicated he is pro-life on abortion. Earlier this year, he repeated that.
“I’m pro-life and I have been pro-life,” Trump says. “It’s an issue and a strong issue.”
In 2011, Trump has said numerous times that he is pro-life on abortion and that he changed his views from supporting abortion to pro-life based on his relationships with close personal friends who had children. Their pregnancy experiences, Trump maintains, allowed him to mature on the abortion issue to the point of now opposing abortion.
In an interview with the Des Moines Register newspaper, Trump expanded on those comments.
“If you look at it, I said, ‘It really, really troubles me, and it really, really bothers me, the whole concept of abortion.’ This was years ago, and even then it really bothered me, but I went on the other side of the line,” Trump said. “But in thinking about it over the years, I’ve had instances, and one instance in particular, a friend had a child who they were going to abort, and now they have it, and the child is incredible. And the man, he changed his views also because of that.”
“As I’ve grown older, as I’ve seen things happen in life, I’ve changed my views — and others have also,” he said.
Trump said he believes abortion should only be legal in the very rare cases when a woman is pregnant by rape or incest or when the life of the mother is jeopardized by the pregnancy.
“Ronald Reagan had the same basic stances I had, and I absolutely believe in the three instances” of exception, he said. “I hope that I can convince Iowans that I will be the best to save our country, and the fact is, I am pro-life.”
Trump said that he wanted “universal health care,” until he went into politics.
The following is Trump’s opinion in his own words. Of course, that and all of his other communistic opinions evaporated, when he decided to run for the presidency.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Donald_Trump_Health_Care.htm
We must have universal health care
I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on health. It is an unacceptable but accurate fact that the number of uninsured Americans has risen to 42 million. Working out detailed plans will take time. But the goal should be clear: Our people are our greatest asset. We must take care of our own. We must have universal healthcare.
Our objective [should be] to make reforms for the moment and, longer term, to find an equivalent of the single-payer plan that is affordable, well-administered, and provides freedom of choice. Possible? The good news is, yes. There is already a system in place-the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program-that can act as a guide for all healthcare reform. It operates through a centralized agency that offers considerable range of choice. While this is a government program, it is also very much market-based. It allows 620 private insurance companies to compete for this market. Once a year participants can choose from plans which vary in benefits and costs.
Source: The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump, p.206-208 & 218 , Jul 2, 2000
Freepers never learn. Marco Rubio, Walker etc, they tell lies to get elected. Can’t believe until now, Freepers are falling for these clowns.
That’s right. The election is light years away.
He’s on a roll. Let him go.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) met with billionaire hedge-fund manager Dan Loeb on Wednesday, Business Insider has learned.
Walker was seeking Loeb's key financial support ahead of his all-but-certain presidential campaign, but he didn't get it. According to sources close to the situation, the sticking point was Loeb's support of same-sex marriage.
The dinner and “fireside chat” for about a dozen people with Mr. Cruz and his wife, Heidi, was at the Central Park South penthouse of Mati Weiderpass and Ian Reisner, longtime business partners who were once a couple and who have been pioneers in the gay hospitality industry.
When the word got out to the gay community that Wiederpass and Reisner were considering throwing their support to Cruz, all hell broke loose.
Their gay-friendly hotels suffered mass cancellations and Wiederpass and Reisner were forced to apologize and withdraw their promised support -- even though they favored Cruz' conservative agenda.
What’s his angle? I don’t get what he’s trying to do cause it doesn’t seem like he’s entertaining the notion of being prez. Maybe he’s using his star power to decry the state of the union?
He already lied about Reagan, Romney did the same thing in an effort to cover his pro-abortion views, Romney called Reagan “adamantly” pro-choice.
Donald Trump is pro-abortion.
You don’t have to work so hard to be a hustler’s sucker, nor keep repeating things that you know aren’t true.
Trump is a con man and a liar, you have to actually learn his positions, not just pick up an impression that he tries to leave you with.
Trump is not pro-life, although he claims that he switched in 2011 to run for president as a republican, for the 2012 election.
Do you believe that at age 65, as he was preparing his run for the presidency as a republican in the 2012 election, after preparing as a pro-abortion Independent candidate for the 2000 election, and having been a pro-abortion democrat from 2001-2009 and pro-abortion for his entire life, that Trump truly and mysteriously switched to pro-life, as he was preparing to declare as a GOP candidate in 2011?
Trump in January, 2015—Abortion? “it depends when, it depends when”
In this 105 second video you see him using that line of his that you chose to quote, to sell him as pro-life, but then you hear that he is actually in disagreement with the GOP pro-life platform on rape and incest, and says that “it depends when” a woman wants to have an abortion, on whether he is against it.
Video from 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzGrSYWAkxg
So no one can ever, ever, ever, ever, ever change positions. Not once, not ever.
Got it.
Thanks.
That video is from 6 months ago.
Trump was asked about a woman being pregnant, and not from rape or incest, and Trump answered that it depends on how far along the baby is.
“It depends when”
“So say a woman is pregnant, and it is not in any of those exception categories, and she chooses to have an abortion “”it depends when, it depends when”
Trump is about as pro-life as Bill Clinton is maritally-faithful.
Don’t put your head in the sand.
Ansel12 made his point with proof from “The Donalds” own mouth from January of this year (2015).
If you want to support Trump, support him with your eyes open and be willing to support the positions he is week on, and that would include both Pro-Life and Gay marriage at the least.
No need to convince me any more.
You are right, chief. I can’t trust anyone to ever change. Nope. Not ever.
You are 100% right. Now let me kiss your ass for showing me the right way to live.
CJ,
Please watch the YouTube Video from January of this year(2015) where Donald’s true position concerning being “Pro-Life” is explained by the man himself.
I don’t support Trump, there are a ton of other issues I have with him and I won’t vote for him at all.
But why do we abso-freaking-lutely have to trash each and everything every single person does?
If Trump says he is pro-life, that should be a good thing.
But nope!
Shut him down, shut him out, shout him out of the building.
We need more voters, we need more support, we need to win people to our side of the argument, and we are going to succeed by acting like classless jerks who have a purity test that you must pass in order to get into our club.
Are you paying attention?
He said that he switched in 2011 to run for president as a republican, but in that video from January of THIS year, he makes clear that he is still pro-abortion.
Are you paying attention?
Him saying he is pro-life should give us encouragement.
It shouldn’t make people trip over themselves to support him.
I sure don’t plan on supporting him, but damn it man! When someone is firing on the enemy, stop turning around and pointing your guns at him!
Accept the help and carry on the fight!
But you won’t. You can’t change. You must always shoot the wounded on your side because they weren’t good enough for you to take to the front lines with you.
Are you on drugs?
Have you watched the video? Trump lied.
Trump and Scott Walker have been living most of their lives in neighborhoods with few illegal Mexicans.
They can plead ignorance on issues they are not schooled on.
Trump probably hasn’t thought much about abortion until he became more outspoke on political issues.
Gary Johnson, Pataki, Schwarzenegger Rubio, Jeb and all the Bush’s have seen illegal Mexican criminals destroy neighborhoods yet they still push amnesty.
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