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'I'll be voting no.' Trump clarifies his stance on the abortion amendment in Florida (www.npr.org)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I actually really hate NPR for this article because they waffled so much.

After confusion over his stance on abortion rights, former President Donald Trump is clearing things up.

His stance was not confusing and was abundantly clear, as they state later in the article:

On Thursday, Trump indicated he would vote in favor of abortion rights in his home state of Florida, where it is on the ballot. Saying he thinks the "six week [ban] is too short," he said he favored "more time."

When asked explicitly, "so you'll vote in favor of the amendment?", Trump seemed to affirm that he would.

"I'm going to be voting that we need more than six weeks," he told NBC News in an interview, before saying he favored exceptions in abortion law for the life of the mother, rape and incest.

They don't even give that part straight. Saying he "indicated" makes it sound like there was some wiggle room, or miscommunication, possibly on the part of the reader/listener. There wasn't. He plainly said in no uncertain terms that he was voting for the amendment. Then his campaign said WAIT NO DON'T SAY THAT because they think it's a dumb move given his base. So he reversed his position.

He didn't "clarify" shit. He said one thing and within a DAY he said the exact opposite.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I hate that they let Trump flip flop on pretty much any issue, while holding everyone else (rightly) to account for stuff like that. Just because everything he says is basically an unintelligible word salad.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

It's not just can't flip flop, they are held to their word for decades, while trump's words seem to last about 5 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's also because they can't run headline after headline with "Trump lied" and expect to get clicks. News has become an engagement farm where in the past newspapers and other media were less, well, engaging.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, that's definitely part of the problem, although some of it has to do with both sidesing everything in the name is neutrality. If 99% of scientists say climate change is happening and there's like one scientist who's clearly on the payroll of the fossil fuel industry, your job is to expose those links, not to give both sides equal time.

They're treating the Republican party like a normal party that acts in good faith, and they haven't been like that since Nixon.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Politico: “Harris fails to answer for Trump’s frequent flip flops.”

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But he’s a convicted felon, so how is he going to vote? 🧐

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

In NY, and FL goes by the state of the conviction for voter eligibility.

The issue isn't that he is a felon, but that he didn't report in after conviction. However, the argument will be that he hasn't been sentenced yet, because FL will definitely find wiggle room for Trump.