He uses this strategy consistently.
“Hillary is a lovely woman, a great person. She’s also the worst Secretary of State in human history.” He doesn’t put a stumbling block in the path of disaffected supporters of opponents crossing over to his side.
Saying abortions are a minimal part of what PP does greases the wheels to defunding abortions, PP can’t very well protest by admitting defunding of abortion completely GUTS their activities. They have to agree with Trump. And when abortions are defunded, they have a choice of either providing REAL women’s health care service, or downsizing, or becoming dust in the wind.
And in the process the worst of the feminazis and homosocialists can’t accuse him of conducting a “war on women” if he’s actually multiplied health care resources to women through PP’s capitulation.
The problem for many people is that Trump thinks of what makes the enemy most vulnerable and doesn’t worry about the lowest rung of his critics who can’t or won’t understand he’s a strategist and not a politician. A candidate who holds up a can of gasoline and says he wants to burns PP to the ground would cheer their minds and warm their hearts. It also guarantees that candidate would disappear into obscurity, and that the holocaust would continue /tagline disclaimer.
It's neck-and-neck between her and Mad Maddie.