Fox News host Harris Faulkner recently issued a significant fact-check against a Democratic guest on her show, who touted a lie from the left that has been continually debunked. After the guest, Jose Aristomuno had confidently claimed that former President Donald Trump supports a “national abortion” ban, Faulkner stepped in to set the record straight.
Faulker began, asking the guest, “Jose, first of all, the comment about the fact that he doesn’t want to help women, having done an all women town hall with him, he knows he has a gender gap here. So [Kamala Harris] now is, what is she doing?” He replied, “Well, look, I’ll just tell you there is that when you want to put forth a national abortion ban, his Vice President, you know, candidate JD Vance said…”
The hots interjected, setting the record straight and fact-checking Jose’s false claim that Trump would enact a nationwide ban on abortion. “Jose you know that he has denied that. He has denied that over and over.” Faulker added that if Trump really wanted to pursue such a ban, he had the opportunity to do so when he was president. “And by the way, if he wanted to do that, he would’ve done it when he was president already,” she said.
As the Democrats push abortion, an issue that represents a substantial portion of Vice President Kamala Harris’ agenda, it has been continually claimed that Trump would support a national abortion. However, the Republican presidential candidate has repeatedly denied that he would do this, maintaining that he only seeks to return the issue to the state level.
“As part of his agenda, (Trump) and his allies would enact a nationwide abortion ban, with or without Congress,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in August after she officially accepted her nominee as the Democratic candidate. Similarly, President Joe Biden said, “You know Trump will do everything he can to ban abortion nationwide. Oh, he will.”
However, Trump has maintained that he will leave it up 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, or in this case the law of the state,” he said. “Many states will be different, many will have a different number of weeks, or some will have more conservative than others and that’s what they will be.”
Trump’s running mate JD Vance has also denied the Democratic claim, stating, “Donald Trump’s view is that we want the individual states and their individual cultures and their unique political sensibilities to make these decisions, because we don’t want to have a nonstop federal conflict over this issue,” Vance said.
Watch Faulker’s major fact-check here:
Regardless, Harris has dismissed the statements from the Trump campaign, maintaining that Trump would enact such a ban. She said earlier this year, “Trump wants us to believe he will not sign a national ban. Well, I say, enough with the gaslighting. The great Maya Angelou once said, ‘When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time.’”
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