Fox News host Harris Faulkner cut off former Democratic National Committee spokesperson Jose Aristimuno Thursday after he claimed former President Donald Trump backed a national ban on abortion.
Trump has said he would not sign a national abortion ban on multiple occasions, calling it an issue for states to decide, but also revealed he would oppose the pro-abortion Amendment 4 referendum in Florida, telling Fox News it went too far. Faulkner asked Aristimuno about Trump’s efforts to reach out to women, including a town hall that aired on Fox News. (RELATED: ‘That’s The Entire Room’: Harris Faulkner Stunned At How Many Women Worried About One Particular Issue)
“Well, look, I will just tell you, Harris, when you want to put forth a national abortion ban. His vice president, you know, candidate, Vance has said he wants to –” Aristimuno said.
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“But Jose, you know that he has denied that,” Faulkner cut in. “He has denied that over and over and by the way, if he wanted to do that he would have – he would have done it when he was president already.”
The Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision by upholding Mississippi’s ban on most abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy in a 6-3 ruling in June 2022. Three of the justices in the majority were appointed by Trump.
“Look, that was just one instant,” Aristimuno claimed.
“But you gave that as an example and I wanted to refute it,” Faulkner responded.
Trump called a Florida law which restricts abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy, when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, “too harsh” in May 2023, drawing criticism from Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who ran against Trump for the Republican nomination.
Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, Trump’s running mate, said the former president would veto a national ban on abortion in August. Trump vowed to make IVF free if elected during an August campaign event in Michigan and called for the procedure to be protected after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Feb. 16 that frozen embryos resulting from successful IVF procedures would be viewed as unborn children during a case involving three families suing a medical facility over the destruction of the embryos.
Trump has reached out to women by highlighting his position on curbing illegal immigration, including an August campaign event where the mothers of Rachel Morin and Jocelyn Nungaray, who were both allegedly killed by illegal immigrants who were released by the Biden administration, spoke.
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