Former President Trump slammed his former vice president early Wednesday over disagreements over abortion policy.
President Trump posted a harsh attack on former Vice President Mike Pence on his own social media site, Truth Social.
“Former Vice President (thanks President Trump!) Mike Pence has been talking a lot about abortion lately. He never thought I could kill Roe v. Wade and bring it back to the United States. , every legal scholar says, and rightly so,” Trump wrote.
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Former Republican presidential candidate Trump speaks at the awards ceremony held at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Radle/Getty Images)
“He started with the position that there would be no abortions for any reason, and then he allowed abortions up to six weeks, up to 15 weeks, and then who knows,” the former president said. I said no.
The comment appears to be referring to various pro-life bills proposed or supported by Mr. Pence that seek to restrict abortion at the state or national level.
The former vice president has consistently advocated pro-life since he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000. Throughout his political career, he has argued that aborting a fetus at any stage is morally unacceptable.
The critic also attacked Sen. Lindsey Graham, who said he “didn’t want an abortion under any circumstances, but back then abortions were allowed up to six weeks after birth, and now they’re up to 15 weeks.” You seem to be using recycled words from previous posts. . ”
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Pro-choice and anti-abortion demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
“But that doesn’t matter, because the radical left Democrats will never approve on this issue, and the Republicans don’t have anywhere near the number of senators they need to solve the problem,” Trump said. He continued to criticize late at night. “Mike is getting very bad advice from Mark Long et al. That’s why he’s polling at 1%. With better advice, he’s firmly at 2% or even more.” You will earn!!!”
The “Mark Long” mentioned in the post is likely the nickname of Mark Short, Pence’s chief of staff when he was vice president. Short is currently the president of Pence’s advocacy group, Advancing American Freedom.
“Everyone must ask Democrats whether they want to allow abortions at seven, eight, and nine months of age, as proposed by the former Democratic governor of Virginia, or whether they should allow babies to be executed at birth,” Trump said. the president concluded. “They are radicals, not Republicans!”
The sudden sporadic criticism of Mr. Pence is likely due to the former vice president’s vocal opposition to Mr. Trump’s abortion policy plans.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Mr. Pence made the following indictment on Monday: President Trump’s decision Failing to support the federal abortion ban is a “backsliding on the right to life” and a “slap in the face to millions of pro-life Americans.”
The former vice president’s statement comes as President Trump took credit for the Supreme Court’s conservative majority’s decision two years ago that overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide. Announced hours later.
But President Trump has refused to support efforts by social conservatives to ban abortion at the federal level, leaving states to set their own abortion laws as long as there are exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. He emphasized his support for
in statement “President Trump’s rollback on right to life is a slap in the face to the millions of pro-life Americans who voted for President Trump in 2016 and 2020,” Pence said on social media. By supporting the Trump-Pence administration, the Trump-Pence administration consigned Roe v. Wade to the ash heap of history and gave the pro-life movement an opportunity to compassionately support women and the unborn child.”
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Republican presidential candidate and former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Clinton County Republican Hog Roast in Clinton, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
The former vice president lamented that “too many Republican politicians are ready to back down from the fight of their lives.”
Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
