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TRUMP HAD HIS TERRIBLE COMMENTS
ABOUT ABORTION, MOST PEOPLE, EVEN ON THE RIGHT, A LOT OF
PEOPLE ARE ATTACKING HIM. THEY ARE USING THIS AS A CHANCE TO
SAY HE'S NOT ACTUALLY PRO-LIFE, HE SAYS WHAT HE THINKS THEY WANT
TO HEAR, BUT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THEIR THOUGHT PROCESS. BUT HE
HAS HIS DEFENDERS, BOTH HIS ACTUAL SUPPORTERS AND SOME IN
THE MEDIA, ESPECIALLY ON FOX NEWS. WE WILL TURN TO FOX AND
FRIENDS, WHICH HAS AN INTERESTING EXCUSE FOR WHY
HE MIGHT HAVE SAID WHAT HE SAID.
THEY TALKED TO CHRIS MATTHEWS ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THE
MIDDLE EAST, AND HE TALKED TO HIM ABOUT ABORTION. WHEN YOU
KNOW A MORE EXPERIENCED CANDIDATE, BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP
WAS MAKING $1 BILLION WHILE EVERYONE ELSE WAS RUNNING FOR
OFFICE, MOST CANDIDATES WOULD SAY I'M NOT HERE TO TALK ABOUT
ABORTION. WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT ANOTHER TIME.
BUT THOSE ARE LARGELY POLITICAL QUESTIONS, AND HE
HAS TO ANSWER THOSE, BUT NONETHELESS, HE ONLY BECAME
A POLITICIAN ABOUT SIX OR SEVEN MONTHS AGO.
THIS IS NEW FOR HIM.
PEOPLE LIKE HIM BECAUSE HE IS LURCHING AS HE GOES AND HE
IS NOT THE ESTABLISHMENT.
ALL THREE OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE SO SILLY.
THE NOTION THAT ANY CANDIDATE, WHEN ASKED THE QUESTION, WOULD
SAY I'M NOT HERE TO TALK ABOUT ABORTION -- REPUBLICANS LOVE
TALKING ABOUT ABORTION. THEY ARE HERE TO TALK ABOUT ABORTION. SO
THAT IS A RIDICULOUS PREMISE TO OPEN WITH. BUT THEN STEVE,
BECAUSE PEOPLE SAY SOMETHING BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY
HAVE TO, SAYS HE IS NEW AT THIS.
HE'S ONLY A 68-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO HAS BEEN RUNNING FOR
PRESIDENT FOR SIX OR SEVEN MONTHS.
WHY WOULD HE HAVE A POSITION ON AN ISSUE --
BY THE WAY, DONALD TRUMP RAN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2000.
THAT IS RIGHT, ON THE REFORM PARTY.
HE IS NOT NEW TO THIS.
AND IT IS NOT ABOUT DETAILED TARIFF PROS AND CONS, IT IS
DO YOU THINK WOMEN SHOULD BE ABLE TO EXERCISE THEIR
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOR REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM?
AND WHY THE HELL IS IT OKAY FOR HIM TO BE NEW TO THIS HERE,
BUT WHEN HE IS TALKING ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY, IT DOESN'T
MATTER THAT HE IS NEW TO THIS, WE NEED TO HAVE BETTER
PEOPLE WITH FOREIGN POLICY.
THESE FOX PEOPLE ARE SO HYPOCRITICAL ABOUT DONALD TRUMP.
INTERNALLY HYPOCRITICAL. IT WASN'T THAT LIKE YOU SHOULDN'T
HAVE TO SAY ANYTHING JUST BECAUSE THE LAST THING HE SAID
WAS BAD -- THAT IS THE PART WE DON'T LIKE. BUT THEY ARE FINE
WITH HIM SAYING IT SHOULD BE BANNED NATIONALLY. SO HE IS NEW
ENOUGH THAT HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW LONG YOU SHOULD GO TO JAIL, BUT
HE HAS BEEN AROUND LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT WE SHOULD CHANGE
ESTABLISHED CONSTITUTIONAL LAW FOR THE PAST FOUR OR FIVE
DECADES. THAT IS A WEIRD -- AND THE WOMAN DEFENDING HIM, I DON'T
KNOW HER NAME, HE IS SAYING HE WANTS TO TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHT,
THE RIGHT OF YOUR FRIENDS, STATISTICALLY IT IS ALMOST
CERTAINLY THE CASE THAT SHE KNOWS AT LEAST ONE WOMAN WHO HAS
HAD AN ABORTION, HE WANTS TO TAKE IT AWAY, POSSIBLY THROW HER
IN JAIL FOR COMMITTING ***, BUT HE IS NEW. IS EXCITING, THAT
IS WHAT PEOPLE LIKE HIM. BUT THAT WAS NOT THE ONLY FOX SHOW
THAT WAS SUPPORTING HIM. FOX GENERALLY IS ANTI-TRUMP, BUT A
NUMBER OF HOSTS ARE STICKING WITH HIM. WE ALSO HAVE ANDREA
TANTAROS, SHE DOESN'T EVEN BLAME CHRIS MATTHEWS, SHE BLAMES
SOMEONE ELSE ENTIRELY.
HE WALKED INTO EXACTLY WHAT HILLARY CLINTON WANTED HIM TO
WALK INTO, WHICH IS A TRAP. SHE CAN TAKE AND PUSH OUT IN MAILERS
AND THEY CAN GET THEIR UPCOMING GENDER WAR, WHICH IS EXACTLY
WHAT THEY WANT.
I LOVE THAT IT IS A TRAP, HE SAID IT SHOULD BE BANNED, THE
NATURAL FOLLOW-UP IS, WHAT IS THE CONSEQUENCE FOR VIOLATING
THAT BAN? THAT IS A TRAP.
THAT IS NOT HIM NOT HAVING AN ANSWER, THAT IS A TRAP FROM
HILLARY CLINTON, WHO WASN'T EVEN THERE.
THAT IS A STUPID THING TO SAY.
SHE IS RIGHT ABOUT ONE POINT, WHICH IS THAT IT SETS UP A
GENDER WAR THAT REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT AND DEMOCRATS DO.
BUT SHE IS SAYING IT FALSELY SET UP A GENDER WAR.
AND THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GENDER WAR.
THE GENDER WAR EXISTED ALREADY BEFORE DONALD TRUMP CAME
ALONG, HE JUST HAPPENED TO MAKE IT WORK.
I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU, ASKING HIM HOW LONG THEY SHOULD GO TO
JAIL OR WHAT THEIR FINE SHOULD BE, THAT DOES NOT SET UP THIS
PHANTOM OF THE GENDER WAR. SAYING YOU ARE GOING TO TRY TO
MAKE IT ILLEGAL NATIONALLY, THAT SETS UP THE GENDER WAR. SHE
SHOULD NOT BE PISSED AT HILLARY CLINTON, SHE SHOULD BE PISSED AT
DONALD TRUMP.
AND WE ALSO HAVE A SUPPORTER OF DONALD TRUMP WHO HAS A
SIMILAR OPINION ABOUT WHO IS TO BLAME.
IT IS SO FAR OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM EVEN PRO-LIFE
THINKING, WHERE DID HE COME UP WITH THAT?
I THINK YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE CONTEXT AND SITUATION HE WAS
IN. THIS IS A TYPICAL TRAP THAT A LOT OF DEMOCRATS AND LIBERAL
MEDIA DO WHEN THEY ASK THIS QUESTION AMONGST A PRO-LIFER, A
CONSERVATIVE. THERE IS NO EASY ANSWER OUT OF IT BECAUSE IT IS A
COMP LOCATED SITUATION BECAUSE IT IS A COMPLEX ISSUE. AND I
THINK THE FACT THAT MR. TRUMP REALIZED IMMEDIATELY AFTER HE
GOT OFF HOW IT WOULD BE MISCONSTRUED, AND ISSUED THE
CLARIFICATION --
WAS IT MISCONSTRUED? HE SAID WOMEN SHOULD BE PUNISHED. HE WAS
CLEAR ABOUT IT. NOT DOCTORS, WOMEN.
AND HE, I THINK HE COMPLETELY MISSPOKE AND REALIZES HE
MISSPOKE.
THAT IS OBVIOUS THEY NOT WHAT HE MEANS.
IF HE MISSPOKE, HE WAS GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO CLARIFY WHEN
CHRIS MATTHEWS ASKED THE FOLLOW-UP QUESTION.
HE WAS SPECIFIC, HE SAID, THE WOMEN?
AND DONALD TRUMP SAID, YES.
I ALSO LIKE HER, WHO I MET IN MIAMI AND ONE OF THE DEBATES
RECENTLY, WHEN SHE SAYS IT IS OBVIOUSLY NOT WHAT HE MEANT --
HOW IS THAT OBVIOUS? HOW DO WE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT DONALD
TRUMP, IT IS OBVIOUS? TO ME, IT IS OBVIOUS HE IS NOT PRO-LIFE.
BUT IT IS ONLY OBVIOUS TO ME BECAUSE I DON'T THINK HE IS.
BECAUSE WE HAVE READ HIS OTHER QUOTES.
AND THERE IS A HISTORY TO IT. SO THE PEOPLE WHO COME TO HIS
DEFENSE, LIKE HUGHES, COME TO HIS DEFENSE WITHOUT REALLY
KNOWING WHAT THE TRUTH IS BEHIND IT.
OR NOT CARING.
TRUMP NOT CARING.
DON'T SEEM TO CARE THAT HE DOESN'T HAVE A STRONG POSITION.
ABSOLUTELY, THEY DON'T CARE, AS LONG AS HE IS THE GUY. IT
DOESN'T MATTER WHAT HE SAYS. AND YOU NOTICE THAT WHEN YOU GO TO
THESE -- I THINK YOU SHOULD GET OUT THERE AND GO TO A TRUMP
RALLY, BECAUSE YOU SEE IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO IS ON STAGE
OR SECURITY, ALL THIS -- YOU LOOK AT THE PEOPLE IN THOSE
CROWDS AND YOU SEE WHAT THEY REACT TO AND HOW THEY TALK TO
ONE ANOTHER, IT IS ASTONISHING.
IT IS SOMETHING YOU DON'T SEE IN AMERICA VERY OFTEN.
IT IS EVEN MORE SUBSTANCE FREE THAN MOST PEOPLE IN AMERICA ARE.
BUT THERE IS A BLIND DEVOTION. YOU GO TO ANY OTHER
EVENT, AND I HAVE SEEN EVERY SINGLE CANDIDATE UP CLOSE AND
PERSONAL IN THE PAST EIGHT OR NINE MONTHS, YOU SEE THEM
QUESTIONING THEIR GUY OR THEIR WOMAN.
OR DISAGREEING WITH THEM ON CERTAIN THINGS.
THAT IS WHAT I MEAN. AND TALKING TO US ABOUT, I'M HERE --
YOU WERE IN IOWA, PEOPLE IN IOWA WILL DRIVE 340 MILES TO SEE
SOMEONE THEY ARE NOT GOING TO VOTE FOR. THEY ARE INTO IT, SOME
OF THEM. BUT THE IDEA THAT THEY CAN QUESTION THE CANDIDATE THEY
ARE SUPPORTING, OR DOUBT THEM, IS GREAT.
BUT THAT IS NOT HAPPENING WITH TRUMP.
MANY PEOPLE HAVE SAID ONE UNIFYING CHARACTERISTIC OF TRUMP
SUPPORTERS IS A PREDISPOSITION FOR THE AUTHORITARIAN
PERSONALITY, WHICH IS OPPOSED TO QUESTIONING AUTHORITY FIGURES.
AND THE FINAL THING FROM THE QUOTE IS, IT IS CLASSIC
LIBERAL MEDIA.
SHE SAID TRAP, TOO.
MAYBE THE EMAIL WENT OUT. IS A CLASSIC LIBERAL MEDIA TACTICS,
IT IS A COMMENTATOR ISSUE AND YOU WANT US TO SAY WHAT THE
PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE? I DO WANT YOU TO, BECAUSE YOU ARE THE ONE
SAYING WE SHOULD BAN IT. IF YOU WANT TO TAKE 10 YEARS AGO WITH A
MUCH OF THINK THANKS AND WORK ON IT AND FIGURE IT OUT BECAUSE IT
IS SUCH A COMPLICATED ISSUE, FIGURE OUT WHAT THE PUNISHMENT
SHOULD BE, THEN PUSH FOR THE CHANGES IN THE LAW, THEN YOU
COULD AVOID THIS LIBERAL MEDIA TRAP. BUT WHEN YOU ARE SAYING WE
SHOULD BAN IT WHEN WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE CONSEQUENCE WOULD
BE, YOU LOOK LIKE A MORON, NOT CHRIS MATTHEWS.