In Private, Trump ‘Keeps Shitting All Over’ the End of Roe v. Wade “I do not think he’s enjoying the moment as much as many of his supporters are”
By NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ & ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Road to Majority conference Friday, June 17, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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Republicans spent Friday celebrating the end of Roe v. Wade and praising Donald Trump for making it happen. Trump himself, multiple sources tell Rolling Stone, is far less excited.
Publicly, the former president took credit for abrogating the rights of millions of American women, putting out a statement saying Roe’s repeal was “only made possible because I delivered everything as promised, including nominating and getting three highly respected and strong Constitutionalists confirmed to the United States Supreme Court.”
But privately, the former president is anxious about what the end of Roe, and the flood of extreme Republican state-level anti-abortion laws it will unleash, will mean for the GOP’s electoral prospects — and for his own.
“He keeps shitting all over his greatest accomplishment. When you speak to him, it’s the response of someone fearing the backlash and fearing the politics of what happens when conservatives actually get what they want [on abortion],” says one source who has talked to Trump about this in the weeks following the SCOTUS draft opinion leak. “I do not think he’s enjoying the moment as much as many of his supporters are, to be honest with you.”
Trump has private remarked that if Republicans wanted to be “really smart” during the 2022 midterm elections, the party focus on Democrats and “late-term abortions” while steering clear of markedly less popular conservative positions on the issue, according to another person who spoke to the ex-president in the past two months.
Republicans have recently passed laws seeking to ban abortion in nearly all cases, including some that lack exceptions for women who were raped or victims of incest. Trump has been skeptical of the political wisdom of that strategy since at least the middle of his presidency.
“Several years ago…I remember being at a dinner with [Trump] at the White House, where there were several Democrat[ic] and Republican senators and congressman,” says Dallas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, who advised Trump throughout his campaign and term in office. “He absolutely savaged the Democrats present — in a polite way — for having the view that abortion should be legal up until the moment the child is born. He used the term ‘barbaric,’ if I recall correctly,” says Dallas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, who advised Trump throughout his campaign and term in office. “He asked the Democrats at the table how they could believe that.”
In May, Trump privately complained to allies that he worried the Republicans extreme position on abortion would hurt his position with suburban women. A source told Rolling Stone that Trump was “worried women in the suburbs could punish him for this one day.” The New York Times’ Maggie Habberman reported Friday that following the release of the Dobbs decision Trump privately told allies that the fallout from the end of Roe would be “bad for Republicans.” Haberman also reported on Friday that “Trump also described the Texas six-week ban and citizen lawsuit measure ‘so stupid,’ according a person with direct knowledge of the comment.”
Trump was responsible for the nomination of Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barret, who’s elevation to the court secured the conservative majority long desired by Republicans hell bent on securing the power to legislate from the nation’s most powerful bench.
Delivering the court to republicans is considered by many to be the greatest, and longest lasting legacy of the Trump presidency. His appointments are yielding dividends in monumental decisions for the conservative agenda, such like the overturning of Roe, and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, which ruled that public possession of handguns was a constitutional right under the Second Amendment.
With the end of Roe republicans are setting their sites on the future, including a national press to restrict abortion access across all 50 states, and former vice president Mike Pence called for a national abortion ban. In a concurring opinion by Judge Clarence Thomas, the judge indicated that the Supreme Court should reconsider the rulings on cases that established the right to contraception, same- sex marriage, and protections for same-sex relationships.
Regardless of his concerns, by Friday evening Trump’s political operation was fundraising off of the historic victory at the highest court in the land. “Roe v. Wade has been OVERTURNED thanks to Pres Trump! Do you support the Supreme Court’s decision? TELL US HERE,” the Trump team texted supporters and donors on Friday night.
#1: ApesForEvolution2 To: BTP Holdings (#0)
ApesForEvolution2 posted on 2022-06-25 18:52:54 Reply Private Reply
#2: Dakmar To: ApesForEvolution2 (#1)
Dakmar posted on 2022-06-25 18:56:41 Reply Private Reply
#3: BTP Holdings To: ApesForEvolution2 (#1)
I know a girl in Hot Springs, Arkansas who had Covid 19. She was out of action for three months. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2022-06-25 19:02:43 Reply Private Reply
#4: Esso To: Dakmar, Lod, 4um (#2)
Me neither. Now that half the country is hanging its hat on the right to kill unborn, and maybe born babies, I'm thinking that's pretty FUBAR.
Ehhhh, Michael Knowles disagrees with you. Here's his reason:
youtube.com/shorts/vGSTm9XawVA?feature=share
His argument is slightly compelling, at best. This bothered me all day long, then it hit me: Here's why I think you're wrong...
That Time a Guy Tried to Build a Utopia for Mice and it all Went to Hell
youtu.be/5m7X-1V9nOs
Maybe, had Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood eugenics program not been running concurrently with LBJ's "Great Society" program, or whatever it was called, the undesirables would've eaten their own and would've become extinct.
No shit. "Too many cooks spoil the broth."
I was just thinking that we should recreate the Milgram Experiment, IRL, using members of congress as the subjects to start.
How about some grant money, Big Boy?
Esso posted on 2022-06-25 23:14:35 Reply Private Reply
#5: Dakmar To: Esso (#4)
Michael Knowles bases his argument on the idea that abortion is murder. Granted, abortion is murder.
I'm not convinced murder is wrong. It worked for the Aztecs until those funny-hat pope worshipers showed up, Oh, wait, they employed murder as a tool of social control, too. Then fucked everything in sight, until their seed spread north of the Rio Grande...
Dakmar posted on 2022-06-25 23:29:45 Reply Private Reply
#6: Dakmar To: All (#5)
Dakmar posted on 2022-06-25 23:31:51 Reply Private Reply
#7: Esso To: Dakmar (#5)
Nor am I. Government subsidized murder is FUBAR.
Esso posted on 2022-06-25 23:37:48 Reply Private Reply
#8: Esso To: Dakmar (#6)
I'd be a billionaire if I wasn't White.
Esso posted on 2022-06-25 23:45:33 Reply Private Reply
#9: Dakmar To: Esso (#7)
Shoot a junkie, trying to steal your car, though, and you are done. Prison. You didn't understand the rules, bubba.
Dakmar posted on 2022-06-25 23:47:10 Reply Private Reply
#10: Dakmar To: Esso (#8)
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum
Dakmar posted on 2022-06-25 23:48:58 Reply Private Reply
#11: Esso To: Dakmar (#9)
Been there. In 2008, self defense wasn't a crime. Expensive as hell, not a crime.
Yeah, I do. That's why I don't carry a firearm anymore, just tools.
Esso posted on 2022-06-25 23:55:15 Reply Private Reply
#12: Dakmar To: Esso (#11)
my empire of dirt
Dakmar posted on 2022-06-25 23:57:23 Reply Private Reply
#13: Esso To: Dakmar (#10)
I knew the one about chicks looking at eyes and the brooding, anticipator of trouble expression. What blew me away was that the average number of partners that men had was only 6.2.
There's a major low-T or stupid problem going on in this country. I'm at 4 or 5 in the last couple, three years. I'm in my 60s.
Either the soy or vaccines or something is working on the little boys.
Esso posted on 2022-06-26 00:02:22 Reply Private Reply
#14: Dakmar To: Esso (#13)
What is your address? Would you mind if I came over and screamed Slayer tunes outside your bedroom windows all night? That is my right, correct? Freedom of speech and all that? Which do you prefer, Angel of Death or Reign In Blood?
Dakmar posted on 2022-06-26 00:08:41 Reply Private Reply
#15: Esso To: Dakmar (#12)
I am become death. The shatterer of Worlds.
Esso posted on 2022-06-26 00:10:26 Reply Private Reply
#16: Esso To: Dakmar (#14)
Don't know, don't care. I know I need to quit being such a tightass with myself and keep at least a case of Windsor Canadian 1.75s on hand at all time. I'm dry. I'll have to go outside the wire tomorrow. I'm also low on smokes.
Might as well top off WYC-1 when I'm at Vijay's before the new IN gas tax kicks in 1July.
Esso posted on 2022-06-26 00:19:01 Reply Private Reply
#17: Dakmar To: Esso (#15)
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad
So I had one more for dessert
Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt
And I washed my face and combed my hair
And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day
I'd smoked my brain the night before
On cigarettes and songs that I'd been pickin'
But I lit my first and watched a small kid
Cussin' at a can that he was kicking
Then I crossed the empty street
And caught the Sunday smell of someone fryin' chicken
And it took me back to somethin'
That I'd lost somehow, somewhere along the way
On the Sunday morning sidewalk
Wishing, Lord, that I was stoned
'Cause there's something in a Sunday
Makes a body feel alone
There ain't nothin' short of dyin'
Half as lonesome as the sound
On the sleepin' city sidewalks
Sunday mornin' comin' down
In the park I saw a daddy
With a laughin' little girl who he was swingin'
And I stopped beside a Sunday school
Listened to the song they were singin'
Then I headed back for home
And somewhere far away a lonesome bell was ringin'
And it echoed through the canyons
Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday
On the Sunday morning sidewalk
Wishing, Lord, that I was stoned
'Cause there's something in a Sunday
Makes a body feel alone
There ain't nothin' short of dyin'
Half as lonesome as the sound
On the sleepin' city sidewalks
Sunday mornin' comin' down
On the Sunday morning sidewalk
Wishing, Lord, that I was stoned
'Cause there's something in a Sunday
Makes your body feel alone
There ain't nothin' short of dyin'
Half as lonesome as the sound
On the sleepin' city sidewalks
Sunday mornin' comin' down
Dakmar posted on 2022-06-26 00:23:31 Reply Private Reply
#18: Dakmar To: Esso (#16)
I'm just pissed off at the idiots who think it's ok to set off bombs any time day or night. If IMPD wont enforce the law, lynching will make a comeback.
Dakmar posted on 2022-06-26 00:29:00 Reply Private Reply
#19: Esso To: Dakmar (#17)
McMurphy should be here soon. I remembered to make her a milkshake (whole milk, chocolate syrup and vanilla in a plastic mug then freeze it) this morning.
Clot-shots.
Esso posted on 2022-06-26 00:34:55 Reply Private Reply
#20: Dakmar To: Esso (#19)
Kris Kristofferson song, actually.
Dakmar posted on 2022-06-26 00:37:33 Reply Private Reply
#21: Esso To: Dakmar (#18)
Been quiet here today.
They'll enforce it your particular case, with some nice federal charges thrown in. Against you.
Esso posted on 2022-06-26 00:38:19 Reply Private Reply
#22: Dakmar To: Esso (#21)
No, I be smart and shit, I'll wear a Hawaiin shirt so they be thinkin it some gook done it. :)
Dakmar posted on 2022-06-26 00:40:14 Reply Private Reply
#23: Esso To: Dakmar (#20)
Right you are. I might have been thinking of that Gregory Peck movie where he was banging the little girl. I think that was Cash. Been ages since I've seen it.
Esso posted on 2022-06-26 00:43:46 Reply Private Reply
#24: Dakmar To: Esso (#23)
Dakmar posted on 2022-06-26 00:56:14 Reply Private Reply
#25: Lod To: Esso (#16)
Cases & cartons, my friend, cases & cartons. Trust me.
Lod posted on 2022-06-27 20:34:44 Reply Private Reply
#26: Esso To: Lod (#25)
I trust you more than anybody, Dad. I filled up Weyland-Yutani one this morning before the IN gas tax goes up 1Jul, 2 cartons of smokes and one case and one bottle of Windsor Canadian before noon.
Just short of $40.00 for a quarter tank (top-off) in the Toyota.
Esso posted on 2022-06-27 21:52:32 Reply Private Reply
#27: X-15 To: BTP Holdings (#0)
^^This is where the bullshit started in this story
X-15 posted on 2022-06-28 02:17:58 Reply Private Reply
#28: Lod To: Esso (#26)
Lod posted on 2022-06-28 11:40:28 Reply Private Reply