Elizabeth Warren Calls Bullshit on Trump & Vance
Over the weekend, JD Vance pledged that he and Trump would veto a national abortion ban from Congress. Sen. Warren retorted that “American women are not stupid.”
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Within hours of the Democratic National Convention’s conclusion, former President Trump resumed rambling incoherently on Truth Social—this time putting forth the frankly head-spinning lie that, if elected for a second term, he’ll be “great for women and their reproductive rights.” As you’ll recall, after he appointed three anti-abortion extremists to the Supreme Court, his first term culminated in the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
Then, over the weekend, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance told NBC that Trump would veto a national abortion ban that came to his desk: “I think he would. He’s said that explicitly that he would,” Vance said. “To be clear, Donald Trump I think has staked his position and made it very explicit. He wants this to be a state decision. States are going to make this determination themselves.” None of this is true, and all of it is because Trump and Vance know the abortion bans they support—and would enforce if elected—are deeply unpopular.
So it’s important to call complete and utter bullshit on lies like this, which is exactly what Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) did on Sunday. “American women are not stupid, and we are not going to trust the futures of our daughters and granddaughters to two men who have openly bragged about blocking access to abortion for women all across this country,” Warren said on NBC’s Meet the Press. The Massachusetts senator and renowned policy wizard then raised how Trump and Vance wouldn’t need legislation from Congress to effectively ban abortion nationally, thanks to a little something called the Comstock Act.
American women are not stupid—and we are not going to trust the futures of our daughters and granddaughters to Donald Trump and JD Vance, who have openly bragged about blocking access to abortion. pic.twitter.com/rFYAC9iukk