Trump's disturbing Time interview shows he has no idea abortion is a ticking time bomb for the GOP

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Trump's disturbing Time interview shows he has no idea abortion is a ticking time bomb for the GOP
Donald Trump thinks he's brilliantly found a way to evade responsibility for the backlash to overturning Roe

By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
Columnist
PUBLISHED MAY 1, 2024 9:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) Donald Trump has said many things that should have chased him out of politics a long time ago. But in an interview with Eric Cortellessa of Time Magazine this week, he finally said something so outrageous that it could make a difference in this campaign. When asked if states should monitor women's pregnancies so they can know if they've gotten an abortion after the ban, Trump replied:

"I think they might do that. Again, you'll have to speak to the individual states."

In other words, he's fine with whatever medieval torture a state might want to inflict.

....(snip)....

Support for abortion rights has grown since the Supreme Court issued the Dobbs decision and there is no evidence that this fatuous "states' rights" rationale means anything, especially since we all know that the extremists are planning to exhume archaic laws like The Comstock Act to further restrict reproductive rights on a federal level.

The Time interview comes on the heels of a flurry of belated reports in the press about his second-term agenda, which many of us have been screaming about for months. Project 2025 and Agenda 47 among other plans being pulled together by the MAGA establishment, which now includes venerable institutions like the Heritage Foundation and the Club for Growth, have been public for months but the media seemed to be reluctant to take them too seriously. Perhaps this was because Trump campaign officials Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita put out several statements insisting that none of these plans were official campaign policies and that any lists of personnel or plans were mere suggestions. But the election is just six months away now and it is long past time that Trump is confronted with what we've been hearing. This interview makes it clear that the candidate is on board with all of it and even has some extreme ideas of his own to add to the list. ...........(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/01/disturbing-time-interview-shows-he-has-no-idea-abortion-is-a-ticking-time-bomb-for-the/