Today we're going to talk about Trump trying to have it both ways on abortion

and how that is failing in brutal fashion. And for my interview I've got an

episode of my new YouTube series Inside the Right with Tim Miller where we

discussed the Arizona Supreme Court allowing an 1864 abortion ban to stand

and US Senate candidate Carrie Lake's attempt to flip-flop on the issue.

I'm Brian Taylor Cohen and you're listening to no lie.

Another week means another right-wing state Supreme Court has upheld some draconian

abortion ban. Two weeks ago it was Florida which paved the way for Ron DeSantis's

six-week abortion ban to stand. This week Arizona allowed an 1864 abortion ban to

take effect which included no exceptions for rape or incest and which was

written half a century before Arizona even became a state. Republicans are adopting laws

written when the US was still a smattering of territories and when women of

course didn't have the right to vote. And it goes without saying, but the

optics of that are just about as miserable as it gets.

Which is why even the hardline Republicans, the most outspoken MAGA Republicans, including

Donald Trump himself, aren't a tailspin over this.

Trump himself has been desperately

trying to have it both ways and trying to toe the line between pandering to the far

right who wants a full nationwide band and the rest of the country that is

absolutely appalled by these moves.

Here was his answer when he was asked for some clarity.

Over the last few decades, Mr President, you have both considered yourself pro-choice and pro-life.

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