Drew Dixon
Former President Donald Trump says he’ll vote in favor of Florida’s abortion referendum that will appear on the ballot throughout the state for the Nov. 5 election.
NBC News reporter Dasha Burns on her X feed highlighted video of Trump telling her that he would vote to support the ballot initiative. He said, according to Burns, that he thinks Florida’s ban on abortion after six weeks is too restrictive.
“I think the six-week is too short, there has to be more time,” Trump said.
“So you’ll vote in favor of the amendment?” Burns asked.
“I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks,” Trump replied.
Florida’s ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy went into effect in May. The statewide referendum, called Amendment 4, would alter the state’s constitution to protect abortion until viability, in effect negating the six-week limitation on abortions that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed.
But shortly after Trump gave that answer during the Burns interview, his campaign released a prepared statement to Semafor attempting to walk it back.
“He has not yet said how he will vote on the ballot initiative in Florida, he simply reiterated that he believes six weeks is too short,” said Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s National Press Secretary.
Trump, the Republican nominee for President, has previously said he thought the abortion issue should be decided by states and supported the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 vote in 2022 to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in America.
Trump had been noncommittal on abortion bans earlier this month.
“Uh, I’m going to announce that. I’m going to actually have a press conference on that at some point in the near future, so I don’t want to tell you now,” Trump said at Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8. “I think the abortion issue has been taken down many notches. I don’t think it’s a big factor anymore really.”
In the NBC interview Thursday, Trump went further beyond just the abortion issue to say he’d support access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and announced he supports government funding of the procedure for couples trying to conceive and he acknowledged insurance companies should cover the cost.
“We are going to be, under the Trump administration, we are going to be paying for that treatment,” Trump said in the NBC interview. “We’re going to be mandating that the insurance company pay.”
The Republican nominee has been a critic of far-right attempts to limit access to IVF since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled earlier this year the embryos considered for IVF procedures have actual personhood status and have protections as such under the law.
29 comments
Michael K
August 29, 2024 at 6:15 pm
Who can believe anything this pathological liar says.
Day 38
August 29, 2024 at 6:36 pm
Well you believe flip flopping Ka Mana now don’t ya!? LMFAO 🤣
Pujols
August 29, 2024 at 6:41 pm
You sound very uneducated. Remind me of Trump the conman grifter
rick whitaker
August 29, 2024 at 10:45 pm
PEACHY, more whataboutism. how inane can you get.
Zack
August 30, 2024 at 5:45 pm
She has a better track record of following through and is way more truthful about things than Trump will ever be.
how about that infrastructure week, or that really excellent healthcare plan that covers everyone Trump said was 2 weeks out?
Both candidates suck but out of harm reduction the only way to go is Kamala Walz. JD Vance as vice president has been in office as a senator less time than trump has been campaigning for 2024 and Walz has plenty of experience nationally and statewide.
rick whitaker
August 30, 2024 at 7:45 pm
PEACHY MARK, zack just agreed with me that you are a low inf type person. that is why you are so wrong on so many things. just take what fox says and reverse it. that would let you watch your creepy fox buddies, but you would know the facts instead of twisted lies.
rick whitaker
August 30, 2024 at 7:46 pm
PEACHY MARK, more whataboutism, grow up.
Ocean Joe
August 29, 2024 at 6:37 pm
As Hakeem says: “Bro…we broke up with you for a reason!”
What’s one more lie from this guy piled on top a lifetime of fabrications and deceit and fraud? If he means it, the Magas will all vote for it and so will chief bootlickers Moody and Desantis.
Day 38
August 29, 2024 at 6:48 pm
Okay, I get it. Only Kammy can change her positions. 🤣
Ocean Joe
August 30, 2024 at 5:30 am
According to Bolton he has no positions, he’s purely transactional. If it helps him stay out of prison or make money, he’s for it. Or at least he will say he’s for it.
Zack
August 30, 2024 at 5:47 pm
one person is moving in a positive direction based on newer information.
The other is just doing everything he can to stay out of prison and grab power and wealth for himself.
You decide what changing your positions means because one very obviously recognizes nuance and uses empathy…the other just made a campaign ad of the lives of soldiers he had sealed their fate with the 2021 deadline he negotiated with the Taliban.
rick whitaker
August 30, 2024 at 7:54 pm
PEACHY MARK, everyone should change their mind about things when more info is added or the circumstances change. i wouldn’t want a leader that didn’t. trump don’t really seem to have a coherent mind to change. kamala, not kammy, is going to make good decisions based on good advice and a good head. trump has neither. you are such a disrespectful twit, was you raised that way? i bet you don’t respect your neighbors either.
Michael
August 29, 2024 at 6:50 pm
The ‘Trump administration’ cannot promise to pay for anything. The U.S. Congress controls funds to be spent. If Trump actually gets another ‘administration’, it is inevitable that the Senate remains under Republican control. Just imagine Jordan, Cotton, Hawley and yes, Rick Scott, voting to allow spending for reproductive rights. Hopefully, voters are smart enough to see this is a false promise.
That aside, it is fun to see Trump issuing a national television slap to DeSantis and a free political ad for Amendment 4 and at the same time cutting the campaign stump out from under JD Vance. What Trump won’t do for his own self-interest!
ELVIS [FKA EARL]
August 29, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Good evening Sage Patriots,
“Let Not Your Hearts Be Troubled”,
Don “THE DONALD” is still your man.
As you cast your Trump vote you, one and all, should be “Collectivally Relaxing Your Political Sphincters” secure in the Sage Knowledge you have chosen the best candidate for God & Country.
Thank you America,
And FYI our polling indicates we will totally win if you all vote TRUMP,
ELVIS [FKA EARL]
rick whitaker
August 30, 2024 at 9:16 pm
the spincterman has spoken
PeterH
August 29, 2024 at 8:17 pm
Trump is a horrible role model for America’s youth. My point is nothing new. Trump has been a corrupt miserable lying fool for many decades. His business acumen is horrible! After over twenty years in the construction business I’ve never heard of business declaring chapter 11 six times.
Tom
August 30, 2024 at 8:11 am
Watch him pull $2Bn out of his SPAC on Sept 20th and leave all the rubes who believe his BS high and dry. He is a horrible businessman but he certainly knows how to run a grift. Charles Ponzi would be proud of him.
Zack
August 30, 2024 at 5:50 pm
Yeah Trump is about to be able to divest from Truth social on the 18th of september.
I feel so bad for all the people that buy his merchandise. They are just actively being grifted by this dude. There is a reason no other politicians do that kind of merchandising. Its just really low class.
Crazy man
August 29, 2024 at 9:02 pm
He will say anything to get elected. Liar liar pants on fire. Desecrates veterans Violates Women. Read Project 2025. Read JD Vance lips. They plan on outlawing abortion everywhere, period.
Day 38
August 29, 2024 at 9:57 pm
Fracking or no fracking?
Open Border or closed Border?
Single payer healthcare or no?
Defund the police or not?
Is Border patrol KKK or not?
Decriminalize the border crossers or not?
I mean you guys get on Trump, yet let all of this BS slide.
Michael K
August 29, 2024 at 11:01 pm
Twice impeached convicted felon and adjudicated sexual abuser and scammer with a fake foundation and university, three wives whom he cheated on, and a porn star.
Tell me again how thieve are presidential qualifications?
AngieHere
August 30, 2024 at 1:03 pm
It boggles the mind how “conservatives” have chosen this joke of a person as their leader…I can’t wrap my head around it.
Ocean Joe
August 30, 2024 at 5:42 am
Half your squawk was about the border.
Trump says build a wall, Mexico will pay. Builds a piece of the wall, Bannon scams with “We Build the Wall’, and then when James Lankford, a real Republican, leads a bipartisan border bill, Trump sabotages it. Because he always comes first.
Hey, gas prices, oil are down. You could complain about olive oil prices, but then you’d have to admit climate change has decimated the crop and maybe it’s not a hoax.
Day 38
August 30, 2024 at 6:09 am
Well it’s been a light hurricane season so far. Ocean temperatures are cooler than normal off the coast of Africa. Scientists can’t explain why. Now if climate change is affecting that and the lack of hurricanes then I’m okay with that. 😀
Tom
August 30, 2024 at 8:16 am
I’ll second that. Took a drive through Fort Myers beach last week and it still looks like downtown Beirut two years after Ian so no hurricanes is a good thing.
Zack
August 30, 2024 at 6:01 pm
Fracking=bad
Here is a little lesson for you.
Fracking does not make our energy less expensive. Our gas companies are privately owned. Those companies get to drill and damage our country in order to profit for themselves. Most of the energy we produce here in the states gets sold on a market that is worldwide. We also have a strategic reserve if oil prices go up.
What happens is we end up selling off public land…you know…the land we all collectively own, in order for a few companies that are basically just funnels for money to Csuite and Shareholders. So a wealth transfer from us to the wealthy.
Single payer healthcare covers everyone, ensures there are no out of market providers, ensures that a single entity is doing the bidding on drugs thus creating a monopsony situation that will drive prices down for consumers.
Yes defund the police. You all make it out like they are just going to take police away and do nothing to stop crime. They are just going to replace some of the police portfolio by adding social workers, outreach programs, diversion programs, drug treatments, mental healthcare, as well as taking some of the money that cops use to occupy towns like warzones and actually invest in those communities to ensure there is less crime. Poverty leads to crime. Alleviate some poverty. Less police necessary. Train those officers to do something rehabilitative rather than punitive.
Border patrol needs to be reigned in substantively. Some of the stuff that they do is beyond acceptable. Using horses and whips on asylum seekers? Keeping asylum seekers in unsafe conditions? They need oversite. They aren’t the KKK but the rhetoric on their facebook pages would say otherwise.
Yes decriminalize border crossing. Most of the people coming here are seeking asylum from the countries that our anti drug policies and trade policies have decimated. Most countries that people are coming from can be traced back to we in the states overthrowing their governments to place in strongmen that are more amenable to our corporations goals in the region. They need help regardless of how it gets done. Soften your heart. Do you think people would take the risk of walking thousands of miles in extremely risky conditions because things are going great where they are? The migrants are just a punching bag for people like you. Your media has pissed in your ear in order to make you otherize people you should have solidarity with. They are not causing the problems that effect you.
Yes I get on Trump. His policies would do nothing to correct that and it would crash the economy deporting 11 million people. Also…if you have the capacity to think this far…what would the logistics of deporting so many people be? How many flights? How much in detention. You would need to hire a lot of people and then what would those people be doing after?
Trump appeals to people like you because he does not use nuance and only has a very shallow understanding of problems. Just like you.
rick whitaker
August 30, 2024 at 7:28 pm
PEACHY MARK, you listed a bunch of binary choices. it don’t work that way. sometimes saying nothing is better than being made to look like a fool. politics is not a bunch of binary choices. only a low information person would make that error. are you one of the low information trump supporters i keep hearing people referring to? harris will be a fine president. too bad you are not patriotic enough to be more supporting of the next president of the united states of america. our country can use the support of everyone, even the low information and deplorable citizens.
John Cunniff
August 30, 2024 at 8:25 am
Unforced error by Trump, and a big one. He stabbed his strongest supporters, social conservatives, in the back. He’s against the 6 week ban, so he’s going to support a measure that will revoke every abortion restriction right down to parental consent?! How does that make the slightest bit of sense? Is he trying to put the state back into play for Harris by killing his strongest support? Stupid. Utterly and completely stupid. Is he going senile too?
Tom
August 30, 2024 at 12:57 pm
He was always a sandwich short of a picnic but he’s totally jumped the shark now. God help us as we get closer to the election and he goes more off the rails than he has already.
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