On June 27th, while debating President Joe Biden, Donald Trump made this claim about abortion.

They will take the life of a child in the eighth month, the ninth month, and even after birth.

After birth, if you look at the former Governor of Virginia,

he was willing to do this.

He said, we'll put the baby aside

and we'll determine what we do with the baby,

meaning we'll kill the baby. will kill the baby on September 10th debating

Vice President Kamala Harris Trump's description grew more cruel more extreme

more erroneous.

You can look at the governor of West Virginia,

the previous governor of West Virginia, not the current governor,

is doing an excellent job.

But the governor before, he said the baby will be born and we will decide what to do with

the baby in other words we'll execute the baby.

Trump seemed to immediately recognize the power of that word. So he repeated it.

Execution after birth. It's execution no longer abortion because the baby is born is

okay and that's not okay with me.

Political language is okay with me.

Political language is easy to understand and impossible to forget. It's powerful because it overwhelms by oversimplifying, sweeping away any room for context, nuance, and truth.

For example, Trump had one thing right in June, but got it wrong in September. It wasn't the governor of West Virginia,

but the former governor of Virginia, who once commented on a proposed abortion bill that

would have expanded access to abortion into the second and third

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