Posted on 04/01/2016 4:29:09 PM PDT by ConservativeTeen
Donald Trump said Friday that he believes the laws regulating abortion should stay as they are, but he doesn't disagree with the proposition that abortion is murder.
The GOP frontrunner lit a fresh controversy this week with his shifting responses to a question on abortion policy. He said during an MSNBC town hall on Tuesday that he'd like to see the practice banned, and that women who undergo it should face "some form of punishment." But he quickly backtracked, explaining in a statement that while he believes it should be banned, the punishment should be levied on abortion providers, not the women seeking abortions.
Trump sought to clarify his position during an interview on Friday with "Face the Nation" moderator John Dickerson. The interview will air, in part, on Sunday's broadcast.
"A question was asked to me. And it was asked in a very hypothetical. And it was said, 'Illegal, illegal,'" Trump explained. "I've been told by some people that was an older line answer and that was an answer that was given on a, you know, basis of an older line from years ago on a very conservative basis."
Asked how he'd like to change the law to further restrict access to abortions, Trump replied, "The laws are set now on abortion and that's the way they're going to remain until they're changed."
"I would've preferred states' rights," he added. "I think it would've been better if it were up to the states. But right now, the laws are set....At this moment, the laws are set. And I think we have to leave it that way."
"Do you think abortion is murder?" Dickerson asked.
"I have my opinions on it, but I'd rather not comment on it," Trump replied.
"You said you were very pro-life," Dickerson followed up. "Pro-life means that...abortion is murder."
"I mean, I do have my opinions on it. I just don't think it's an appropriate forum," said Trump.
"But you don't disagree with that proposition, that it's murder?" Dickerson asked.
"No, I don't disagree with it," Trump eventually replied.
The back-and-forth over abortion wasn't the only political controversy involving Trump this week. He also stood by his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who's been charged with battery after allegedly grabbing a reporter's arm during a public event last month. And he suggested on Tuesday that he no longer feels bound by his pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, complaining that the party has treated him "very unfairly."
Despite a chorus of critics assailing both moves, Trump told "Face the Nation" it hasn't been the worst week of his campaign.
"I think I've had many bad weeks and I've had many good weeks. I don't see this as the worst week in my campaign," he said. "But certainly, I've had some weeks, and you've been reporting on them, where that was the end. And then the next week, you see poll numbers where they went up and everybody's shocked."
"So yeah, people want to stop me because I'm leading by a lot," he added.
For more of the interview with Trump, tune into "Face the Nation" on Sunday. Check your local listings for airtimes. © 2016 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Only those either unaware of, or willing to disregard the fact that Cruz and his wife are globalist tools. (Ted Cruz, Henry Kissinger & the Globalists)
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"Question: Through international bodies or global economical and financial networks, a certain human conception seems to be imposed onto humankind. Is this conception your finding?
Mr. Pearce: Yes. The whole of human society, politically, economically and culturally, is being remoulded by powerful international and transnational bodies and networks in order to pursue and actualize the globalist agenda. This remolding and remodeling of human society is being pursued without a democratic mandate and without the interests of the peoples of the world in mind. It is being pursued by the richest and most powerful people in the world to serve their own interests, riding roughshod over the interests of the vast majority of mankind. The system being put in place by the globalists is nothing less than the largest plutocracy in human history.
In “Small is Still Beautiful,” you take in E.F. Schumacher’s works and actualize them. Do you think there is a relation between the view of the man who extols birth control, eugenics, euthanasia, abortion and the utopia of ‘gigantism’?
Yes, there is. Indeed it is ironic that the global plutocrats mentioned above have the same agenda of social engineering as do the socialists. It is no coincidence that Bill Gates and Barack Obama share essentially the same views on birth control, eugenics, and abortion, or that they are both pursuing the agenda of the culture of death with the same proselytizing zeal..."
#79 most likely a scrubber team is hard at work eliminating that evidence. ;)
Or they will just scrub your account if you bring it up again. :o
So ... Trump just now realized that Cruz would actually campaign ....
What a nerve.
How low can Cruz go.
Dream on, trumpers, Trump’s domination is officially over.
Let’s get real here. Roe vs Wade made abortion legal in 1973. Not one president since then has or could do anything about it. Reagan was a huge pro life guy, and he never once tried to have the law changed. Why? Because a president doesn’t have the power to legislate. The case would have to either come from the Congress as law, or someone would have to file a SC brief - and that also depends on whether or not the SC would hear the case. So, this is a hot button issue, but I assure you - Ted Cruz won’t be able to change anything in this regard either. Wise up!
Trump cannot answer complicated questions and he gets in trouble when he tries.
That’s because he’s always cried out for broad, vague things that most of us want but he’s never figured out how to actually accomplish those things.
He used to say he hired good people to do good jobs for him but he admitted yesterday that he likes to hire inferior people who are impressed by him.
He couldn’t stand someone working for him who is smarter than he is... which would be most people.
They fear businessmen because they don't understand accounting, finance, and economics, have never built anything, nor have they ever signed the front of a paycheck.
So we want panic and confusion in a leader.
And that’s when confronted by fearsome people such as Chris Matthews and Megyn Kelly?
What about when he’s confronted by Putin or some Chinese dude?
Oh BS. Cruz isn’t going to change the law any more than Trump can. I will not now, or not ever, vote for that lying, cheating, sleazy, NWO, globalist, Ted Cruz, regardless of what he thinks about abortion.
I do not trust Trump to nominate good judges.
He’s shown such poor judgment about everything, why should I trust him on that.
And being a narcissist, he’s easily conned. All it takes is a little flattery.
Compared to Donnie using 3000 killed by terrorists we’re pikers. :)
Yes, the Israelis know how to do it.
What a shame that Trump said he would be neutral between Israel and Palestine or he might have learned something from them.
Will that continue to be true after Ted Cruz is the nominee?
You won’t vote for him even then?
Trump is consistent on immigration, trade, security, jobs, etc. Abortion is not his wheelhouse, and he obviously has no idea how to respond. If it’s important to him, he’ll sit down with some solid pro-lifers around him like Palin, Huckabee, Sessions, Hunter, Dr. Carson, Pastor Jeffries, etc. and talk out this issue and learn how to answer it.
(are there any adults around here besides school teachers?)
#115 LOL
Trump is right to avoid most issues because he doesn’t have a clear understanding and can only speak in broad strokes with short words and a lot of flailing.
Everything he’s said lately, he’s had to deny, equivocate or explain or walk back.
Trump won’t debate because he cannot ‘sustain’ a one on one debate ‘on the issues’...and Cruz would surely hold his feet to the flame and more than likely the moderators would as well..
I don’t think it’s because Trump hasn’t thought things through....rather the stakes are much higher where he sits ‘today’ and he’s got more than his hands full keeping “the catch up substance lessons” he’s being taught straight...and these are not his own.
His focus has been on using Hollywood Style presentation of himself along with crowd manipulation tactics to gain support, coupled with data mining the internet for his talking points. Now that his people are “seeing” their King has no clothes he’s scrambling for a new suit that is in dire need of alterations.
NO, I won’t vote for him and eh won’t be the nominee.
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