Posted on 05/20/2023 6:55:45 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis reportedly will seek to suggest he is stronger on saving lives of the unborn, but former President Donald Trump told Newsmax on Tuesday there is no state abortion laws without his doing.
"First of all, I'm the one that got rid of Roe v. Wade and everybody said that was an impossible thing to do," Trump told Tuesday's "Rob Schmitt Tonight" in an exclusive 15-minute phone interview.
"It's been now brought back to the states, and what I've done is I've given the pro-life people — who are wonderful people and loving people — I've given them the power of negotiation, because now they're able to negotiate something that's going to be very important, and I put them in a position now."
Trump hailed the confirmation of three conservative justices during his administration — "very few people have been had that privilege, the honor" — who "happen to believe that Roe v. Wade should not be there," effectively usurping states rights on abortion law.
"DeSantis, or Ron DeSanctimonious as I call him, he came out with the six weeks" abortion restriction in Florida, Trump continued. "Other people agree with it, and a lot of people don't."
But DeSantis has Trump to thank for all of it, and Trump vows "to be leading the charge" on setting future law and precedent on where the line on rights for the unborn should be in America.
"We're in the position now where we can get something that the whole country can agree with and that's only because I got us out of the Roe v. Wade, where the pro-life people had absolutely nothing to say."
Restricting abortions and protecting the unborn is not a "radical" position, according to Trump, knowing abortion is a Democrat election rally cry for votes.
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They probably hated the news of the Durham report and the irrelevant Trump framed finally confirmed in official govt speak..
My guess is that Hillary would have picked someone other than Garland if she had won—someone female and considerably younger than Merrick Garland.
Well put. The crass, bombastic orange man did more on this issue than 50 years of efforts by GOP Inc.
To those people, the reality makes no difference. They have an agenda. And we don’t just see that on the Left.
What GOP “efforts”? I never saw any, other than lying on election material.
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