Donald Trump falsely claimed on Thursday that babies can be executed immediately after birth in six states, including Minnesota, where vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is governor. (Watch the video below.)
The Republican presidential candidate’s tiresome refrain was accompanied by several misleading or inaccurate comments that incited his supporters.
The story also dodged its responsibility for appointing three Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade, a case that historically limited women’s reproductive rights.
“I just did an interview backstage with a really horrible person, but she’s actually OK,” Trump told the crowd. “It was fake news from NBC. She asked me about all kinds of things. She asked me about abortion and I handled it very nicely, because you know what? That’s so over the top. We have abortion. We’ve taken the whole thing back to the states where it belongs. That’s where everybody wanted it for years and years and years.”
“I just told this reporter the real problem and the real radicals on this are the Democrats, where you can have an abortion in the ninth month,” he continued shortly after.
“And in six states you can kill the baby after it’s born. And you know, one of those states is Minnesota, where this Tampon Tim comes from,” he added, using his nickname for Walz, who signed a bill to make tampons available in public schools.
“You can execute the baby,” Trump concluded.
You can’t execute the baby. Same goes for Minnesota.
