Why Trump’s Abortion Video Needs Some Follow-Up Questions

Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Former President Trump recently stated that he thinks abortion policy should be left to the states, as many in the GOP are expressing support for a national 15-week abortion ban.

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0:00.0	From WNYC Studios.
0:07.0	I'm Brian Lerer.
0:08.1	This is my daily politics podcast.
0:10.8	It's Tuesday, April 9th.
0:14.5	If you took time from obsessing on the eclipse yesterday to take in any political news,
0:20.0	you probably know that Donald Trump staked out
0:22.2	a new, or is it new, position on abortion rights. Now that there is such a backlash, right,
0:27.9	ever since he fulfilled his 2016 campaign promise to get Roe versus Wade overturned by appointing
0:34.5	anti-Roe justices to the Supreme Court. He appointed three.
0:38.7	They did what Trump promised, as you all know.
0:41.3	And in elections and referenda ever since, voters, even in red states, have made it clear
0:46.7	that by and large, they want women to have the right to choose.
0:51.0	So a little Trump history here.
0:53.4	In 1999, when he was first being looked at as a potential
0:58.2	presidential candidate, he said this on NBC's Meet the Press with host Tim Russert when asked if he
1:04.9	supports even late-term abortion rights. I'm very pro-choice.
1:11.6	I hate the concept of abortion.
1:13.7	I hate it.
1:14.5	I hate everything it stands for.
1:15.9	I cringe when I listen to people debating the subject.
1:19.1	But you still, I just believe in choice.
1:22.0	Trump in 1999.
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