After all that he now figures he has them in the bag and doesn’t have to brag about it anymore. They love him more than Jesus, after all:
Hours before Donald Trump was expected to make a virtual address to a Christian advocacy organization that wants to ban all abortions and calls the procedure “child sacrifice,” the former president’s campaign said Monday that he would only give a pre-recorded welcome message lasting less than two minutes — in which he does not say the word “abortion” at all.
Trump was scheduled to make a virtual “address” Monday at an event hosted by the Danbury Institute, an organization that also seeks to ban same-sex marriage and use the Bible to guide public policy, according to its website. The organizers, who promoted Trump as a speaker, noted on X the event sold out.
But in his remarks, obtained first by POLITICO, Trump doesn’t make mention of “abortion.”
“We have to defend religious liberty, free speech, innocent life and the heritage and traditions that built America into the greatest nation in the history of the world,” Trump is expected to say, according to a script of his remarks provided by his campaign. “I know that each of you is protecting those values every day — and I hope we’ll be defending them side by side for the next four years.”
You would think that he’d want to take a victory lap with this group, of all groups. But he’s very nervous about abortion at this point and worries that he’ll be tied to a group that seeks to ban all abortions nationally.
I’m sorry, it’s too late. He is the guy who’s spent the last two years bragging about ending abortion rights and his fatuous claim that sending it to the states was what ‘everyone” always wanted is ridiculous. This one’s on him and he can’t escape it no matter how much he tries to distance himself from the anti-abortion extremists. They may accept his wink and nod but nobody else will.