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.
20 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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
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.