Former President Trump went after former Vice President Mike Pence early Wednesday morning for criticizing his recent comments on abortion.
“Former Vice President (thank you President Trump!) Mike Pence has been talking a lot about abortion lately,” said Trump, who is considered a likely Republican candidate for the White House. I wrote this early Wednesday morning. In true social.
“He never thought that I could kill Roe v. Wade and bring it back to the United States, where it belongs, according to all legal scholars,” he continued. “He started with the attitude that he would not have an abortion for any reason, and then he went on to six weeks, then 15 weeks, and then who knows?”
He added that Pence, who suspended his 2024 presidential bid in October, has received “bad advice” from others on the issue in the past.
The former president’s comments came after Pence responded to Trump’s position on abortion, which was revealed on Monday, as a “slap in the face” to those who oppose abortion access.
“President Trump’s right-to-life rollback is a slap in the face to the millions of pro-life Americans who voted for President Trump in 2016 and 2020,” Pence said in a post on X. , referring to remarks made by his former boss, President Trump, said: They argue that this issue should be left to the states.
“The Trump-Pence administration helped consign Roe v. Wade to the ash heap of history by supporting the nomination and confirmation of conservative judges, and by supporting the pro-life movement with compassion for women and the unborn child.” “In the landmark Dobbs decision, the Supreme Court returned the issue of abortion to the states and the American people,” he added.
President Trump pushed back on his post on Wednesday, claiming it was “not a problem” to support a nationwide ban due to a divided Congress.
“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,” he wrote. Ta.
President Trump added that criticism should be directed at Democrats, not Republicans, on this issue.
The former president made his position public in a video post on Monday, asserting his view that abortion is now “where everyone wants it” from a legal standpoint.
“Each state will decide by vote or by law or both, but whatever they decide has to be the law of the land, in this case state law,” Trump explained.
“A lot of states are going to be different. A lot of people are going to have different numbers of weeks, some are going to be more conservative than others and that’s how it will be,” he said in the video. “In the end, this is all a matter of people’s will. They have to follow their heart or, in many cases, their religion or faith.”
He also faced backlash from hard-line conservatives for his stance.
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