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The Hill:
Trump says federal abortion ban is not needed ‘because we broke Roe v. Wade’
“Because we don’t need it any longer. Because we broke Roe v. Wade, and we did something that nobody thought was possible,” Trump said. “We gave it back to the states. And the states are very working very brilliantly, in some cases conservative, in some cases not conservative. But they’re working and it’s working the way it’s supposed to.”
“You’re having some very, very beautiful harmony to be honest with you,” Trump said.
When he’s incoherent, and a liar to boot, statements like this don’t take the issue off the table for Donald Trump, no matter how hard he pushes the idea that it does. This is not a story he can control, and that’s driving him nuts. But that doesn’t mean our political media is dealing with it thoughtfully.
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