Former President Trump on Monday fired back at GOP criticism of his position on abortion, arguing he “won” against the Democrats, whom he claimed were “reeling” after his statement on the subject earlier in the day.
“You know the Democrats are ‘reeling’ when they have no response to my recent Statement on Abortion, other than, ‘He’s only kidding. He will change it’ or, ‘He won’t do that, he’ll do something else,’ Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Monday. “I guess this means that we’ve WON because they are so bad on everything else that this is the only Issue they are focused on!”
Trump’s statement, in which he said the issue should be left to states, prompted a flurry of attacks from Democrats, who argued Trump was siding with states that had enacted severe restrictions on abortion and imposed punishments for doctors who performed the procedure.
In his video statement, Trump said he was proud to have appointed the Supreme court justices who overturned the Roe v. Wade decision that had allowed legal abortions across the country.
But he expressed support for exceptions to laws forbidding abortion that would allow them in cases of rape, incest or to save a mother’s life, and he did not back a ban on abortions over 15 or 16 weeks.
In one lengthy post, Trump wrote: “I blame myself for Lindsey Graham, because the only reason he won in the Great State of South Carolina is because I Endorsed him!”
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