Trump Is Who I Said He Was

Donald Trump has always been a pro-abortion liberal. Republicans were just too stubborn to listen.

As I said, Trump won’t be the Republican nominee. And if he is and the party nominates a candidate who at times has been a proponent of abortion, more gun control, higher taxes, and a Canadian-style single-payer health care system and a huge donor to Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, it would be a disaster of epic proportions. But it may very well end the speculation in the chattering classes that “Going Bulworth” is a winning political strategy.

I wrote that at Red Maryland the day Donald Trump announced his 2015 Presidential campaign. For years, Republicans who worship the ground Donald Trump walks on swore up and down that Donald Trump was one of us, a pro-lifer who believes in protecting the unborn.

Of course, I was right:

Former President Donald Trump, who paved the way for the undoing of federal abortion rights protections, said that some Republicans “speak very inarticulately” about the issue and have pursued “terrible” state-level restrictions that could alienate much of the country.

While avoiding taking specific positions himself, Trump said in an NBC interview that if he is reelected he will try to broker compromises on how long into pregnancies abortion should be legal and whether those restrictions should be imposed on the federal or the state level.

“I would sit down with both sides and I’d negotiate something and we’ll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years,” he said.

The former president targeted GOP primary rival Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in his criticism of how the Republican party has handled the issue, calling Florida’s six-week ban “a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.”

And also:

The new host of “Meet the Press,” Kristen Welker, asked Trump if he’d sign federal legislation that would ban abortion at 15 weeks, a limit that antiabortion groups and some lawmakers have rallied behind.

Trump said no, and said he’d seek to negotiate with Democrats on the issue.

Trump declined to say what time frame he thinks is appropriate for an abortion ban and instead insisted that he would “sit down with both sides and I’d negotiate something, and we’ll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years.”

Don’t believe me. Believe the words coming out of Donald Trump’s mouth.

While the NBC reporter in question did not exactly have all of her facts right, the truth is that Donald Trump opposes outlawing abortion. Full stop. Donald Trump believes that there should be exceptions to any abortion ban. Donald Trump thinks even a 15-week abortion ban is “too stringent.”

They’d be really surprised about his pro-transgender views, too.

If this will not get “pro-life” conservatives to stop worshipping pro-abortion Donald Trump, nothing will

I know better than to expect these pro-life Republicans who told me how pro-life Trump was to admit they were wrong. But as it always goes….