Nov 28, 2023
Trump Team SCRAMBLES To Cover Up Dark Truth Ahead Of Election
Donald Trump and his campaign team are reportedly planning to try and cover his tracks over how involved he has been on abortion rights and claim he is a moderate as polls prove voters stance against abortion bans. John Iadarola and Adrienne Lawrence break it down on The Damage Report.
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There, of course, remains a vital role for
the federal government in
protecting unborn life.
>> Speaker 2: Do you believe
in punishment for abortion?
Yes or no as a principle?
>> Speaker 1: The answer is that there
has to be some form of punishment.
>> For the woman?
>> Speaker 1: Yeah.
>> First of all,
I'm the one that got rid of Roe v Wade and
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everybody said that was
an impossible thing to do.
I put on three Supreme Court justices.
>> Speaker 3: That is Donald Trump,
when it comes to abortion,
when it comes to reproductive rights,
he has a very clear track record of
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whether he genuinely is
opposed to abortion or not.
As a politician, he has promised that he's
going to try to take away those rights and
he made good on it.
More so than perhaps almost any
other issue in his first term,
he put justices on
the Supreme Court that would and
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did significantly dial back
reproductive freedoms.
So that's the truth of who he is and
it's a truth that
he would really prefer that you
forget going into the 2024 election.
According to leaks from his campaign,
their strategy going forward is to
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pitch the guy who killed Roe v Wade as
a moderate on the topic of abortion.
They're apparently planning to run the
former president as some kind of sensible
centrist on the issue during
the general election.
The magazine cited multiple
anonymous sources as rolling stone.
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Close to the Trump campaign, attesting
to a plan he'd previously weighed
pursuing a middle path that might
appease both Republicans and Democrats.
Now, I don't know what that
is supposed to be, but
I would imagine that considering how
mad Democrats already are at you.
I don't know what that middle path
is gonna be that's gonna supposedly
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placate them.
And are there a lot of Republicans looking
for a middle path on abortion these days?
I feel like they've been fired
up in the opposite direction.
But before we dive into our conversation
about whether this is likely to work.
I just wanna remind everyone of the sort
of stuff that is waiting to be put into
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ads against Donald Trump if he
tries to rebrand as a moderate.
Not only all the videos that
we just showed you, but
when Roe v Wade was taken out,
he put out this statement saying.
Today's decision, which is the biggest
win for life in a generation,
along with other decisions that
have been announced recently.
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Were only made possible because I
delivered everything as promised.
Including nominating, and
getting three highly respected and
strong constitutionalists confirmed
to the United States Supreme Court.
This is a guy that has none of the
capacity that even some other politicians
have to distance himself from his past.
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Because he's a guy who desperately needs
credit for the things that he has done or
hasn't done, but
still would like credit for.
So he always goes on the record as saying
that he is the one who did the thing and
this time, considering the results
of the last few elections.
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When it comes to people being rallied
around the topic of abortion,
him wanting that credit could come
back to majorly bite him on the ass.
Adrienne, what do you think?
>> Speaker 5: I definitely think
it could bite him on the ass.
He really seemed to lean into
the stance of allowing pro-choice
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abortion to be something that
an individual gets to decide.
And then, of course, he flipped with the
evangelical crowd and as a result of that.
As you noted, putting those
Supreme Court justices in the place so
that they could help reverse Roe v Wade.
And now we're seeing so many states and so
many individuals come out and push back,
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preserving and protecting their right to
abortion in their state constitution or
through other legislative measures.
And the thing is that that is
just something that I believe so
many Americans are not cool
with going into this election.
So, I would like to hope a lot of
people are considering that when
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it comes to whether to vote for
Trump or for Biden.
>> Yeah, I would certainly hope so.
It's been one of the strongest issues for
Democrats over the last
few electoral cycles.
And so, of all of the things
to have as your candidate,
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the guy who killed Roe v Wade
seems like a bad choice.
That said, I will throw out there
that at least as of right now,
Trump is still tied with Biden.
And in theory,
people should know that he's the guy
that changed the Supreme Court.
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So, some of that could or
should already be baked in.
Now, it hasn't been the target of
literally months of advertisements from
Joe Biden's campaign.
So, does that worry you a little bit or
do you think it's not front of mind
on people because they haven't
seen the ads and all that?
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>> Speaker 5: So
in terms of Trump and abortion and
people saying that they're still backing
Trump, with the numbers being high,
to some extent,
I think people are posturing.
I think that they're gonna do
something different when they enter
those voting booths because the fact is
that they've created this cult following
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as well as this identity
built around Donald Trump.
And so for them to publicly have to
come out and say, no, he's good and
I like him and I wear your shirts, but
I don't think I want him leading again.
I don't think that that's something that
they can handle by way of peer pressure.
And so, when they are truly
alone in those voting booths,
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I think that that's where things
are really gonna show out.
>> Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm trying to follow
because I can see it going either way.
Do you think that these polls
are overestimating Trump's support or
the opposite?
>> Speaker 5: I think
they're overestimating.
>> Speaker 3: Okay, that's interesting
because we've been told in the past two
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presidential campaigns that they're
always underestimating his support.
Granted, he's been around for
a lot longer now,
fingers crossed that it
turns out that you're right.
I wanna remind people,
by the way, that when we say,
he was, I guess, one of the most effective
anti-abortion presidents in history.
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It's not just a statement.
It's not just him saying he wants
literally the people getting the abortions
to be punished.
It's not just the Supreme Court.
One of the first acts that he took
in office was to reinstate and
expand the global gag rule.
Which blocks foreign organizations
that receive US health assistance from
providing information, referrals,
or services for abortion access.
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He also stripped Planned Parenthood
of Title X funding,
which makes up roughly half of
the organization's finances.
And so, if you want to pitch
him as a radical on this topic,
there's a lot of substance there.
You don't have to lie,
like sometimes they do in campaigns, and
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he's done so much of the work for you.
So, we'll see, I think that this
could be a serious hit to him,
as I'm sure some of it already
was in past campaigns.
And that's before Roe v Wade
was actually destroyed.
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