“Real Time” host Bill Maher took goal at former President Trump and Republicans for his or her dramatic shift on abortion because the 2024 election steadily approaches.
Maher kicked off the panel dialogue on the Arizona Supreme Court’s landmark ruling upholding a near-total abortion ban within the state, a direct results of the Supreme Court docket overturning Roe v. Wade, which Trump has repeatedly taken credit score for.
He instructed the panel that Republicans are “the dog who caught the car.”
“For 50 years, they talked about getting rid of abortion. They did it and it’s super unpopular, and now they have to basically lie,” Maher stated Friday night time. “I mean, Trump — some of his statements on this — it sounds like what he said about healthcare: ‘Make both sides happy… 15 weeks seems to be a number people can agree.’ Can he lie his way out of this?”
HBO’s Invoice Maher knocked former President Trump and Republicans for supporting states to resolve their abortion legal guidelines, questioning their pro-life stance. (Screenshot/HBO)
After insisting Arizona will “definitely be in play” for Democrats and that the election will probably be a battle of “immigration versus abortion,” the HBO host poked a gap within the conservative proper’s evolving abortion argument.
“A lot of people think it’s murder. That’s why I don’t understand the 15-week thing, or Trump’s plan is, ‘Let’s leave it to the states.’ You mean, so killing babies is OK in some states?” Maher requested. “I can respect the absolutist position. I really can. I scold the left when they say, ‘Oh, you know what, they just hate women, people who aren’t pro-choice.’ They don’t hate women. They just made that up.”
He continued: “They think it’s murder and it kind of is. I’m just OK with that. I am. I mean, there’s 8 billion people in the world. I’m sorry, we won’t miss you. That’s my position on it.”
After an uncomfortable silence from the panel and his viewers, Maher doubled down: “Is that not your position when you’re pro-choice?!”
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Former President Trump has been outspoken in latest days together with his place about leaving the abortion debate to the states as a substitute of backing a federal ban. (Joe Raedle/Getty Photographs)
British TV character Piers Morgan, who’s pro-choice, conceded that he agrees with Maher’s blunt description of their place and referred to as out Trump for his “complete U-turn” on the difficulty for “political reasons.”
“He did it in 2016 to get the Evangelicals with him. He said, ‘I’m gonna pack the court, I’m gonna get this done and overturn Roe v. Wade.’ So they all came with him, and I think now he thinks he’s got them,” Morgan instructed Maher. “I don’t support what he’s doing, but I do understand the political reasons he’s doing it, and I think he could be quite effective actually in neutralizing what is becoming a massive banana skin for the party. And I think that’s what he’s recognized and he’s getting ahead of it. I think it could work for him.”
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Piers Morgan criticized former President Trump’s “political” shift on abortion however acknowledged “it could work for him” within the basic election. (Screenshot/HBO)
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Earlier within the week, Trump released a statement declaring that abortion ought to be left to the states.
“… the states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land — in this case, the law of the state,” Trump stated. “Many states will be different. Many states will have a different number of weeks… at the end of the day, it is all about the will of the people.”
