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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump wanted Tiffany aborted...newly unearthed video reveals.. [View all]
Trump Admits He Urged His Mistress To Have An Abortion In Unearthed Audio
In this clip from The Last Word with Laurence ODonnell, the host brings up old audio of Trump discussing his then-mistress Marla Maples pregnancy and calls out Trump for obviously wanting her to have an abortion, a fundamental right that he now wants to deny to every woman in America.
In a discussion with obnoxious radio host Howard Stern, Trump admits that he impregnated a woman who told him that she was taking birth control pills. She told him Darling, Im so happy, were having a child! His reaction, which is bound to thrill the anti-choice community, was uh, excuse me? What are we going to do about this?
Well, see, Mr. Trump, because America is not a backwards draconian theocracy, there are several options that you could have employed to do something about this. But just two days ago, Trump said that we need to ban abortion and punish the women who have them. Its a show of outrageous hypocrisy that highlights how Trump sees the world. While he is happy to employ his mistresss Supreme Court-mandated right to have an abortion should she choose, he has no qualms about abandoning his prior held positions in order to cater to the vapid religious extremists that make up the Republican Party American Taliban.
The incident highlights how critically important choice is to our society. Maples was presented with a choice, and choose she did. Against Trumps wishes she chose not to abort the child, who grew up to be Tiffany Trump. That was her choice. But as ODonnell remarks, in Donald Trumps world, no man in America would be able to say to his girlfriend what are we going to do about this upon discovering an accidental pregnancy. There would be no legal option other than having a baby. The idea that he would punish women who have dangerously unsafe illegal abortions is just jaw-dropping insult to heinous injury.
At the end of the day, the entire fight over womens bodies is about shaming and blaming women for their sexuality while absolving men of all responsibility for their actions;
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Ok Conservative Christians, I'm looking at you. Gonna vote for the Pro-Choicer?
NightWatcher
Oct 2016
#1
EXACTLY. Christ was as liberal as you can get... a fact which is totally lost on right wingers
groundloop
Oct 2016
#25
Has anybody noticed on some of these websites, along the bottom or over on one side
calimary
Oct 2016
#31
I am SUPER lucky to have the guy I wound up with, Hekate! He passed my "condom test."
calimary
Oct 2016
#55
guess we now have an idea why she is worth $1mm while his other kids are worth $150mm each.
unblock
Oct 2016
#6
unfortunately that horse has left the barn but I am horrified for his daughter
elehhhhna
Oct 2016
#16
I think the message is: Trump had a choice that he now does not want women to have.
riversedge
Oct 2016
#21
We didn't need this to invalidate Trump. And neither does Tiffany Trump . . .
MrModerate
Oct 2016
#23
If elected he could take away choice and healthcare especially for low income women
LynneSin
Oct 2016
#37
Trump was for abortions before he was against them (to repurpose old Republican slur). . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2016
#38
Trump against jailing women, then for, then against, now for jailing women for abortions again. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2016
#40
He flaunted Maples IN CHURCH!! His first public appearance before Ivana knew.
SleeplessinSoCal
Oct 2016
#46
The rights in our Republic originate in the Constitution, including overlooking that.
fleabiscuit
Oct 2016
#72