“The View” co-host Pleasure Behar mentioned Thursday she doesn’t purchase Melania Trump’s pro-choice stance, which the previous First Woman touted this week in promotions for her new memoir.
“Sixty-two percent of Americans oppose overthrowing Roe v. Wade, 62 percent, the Republican Party knows this. I think they put her up to this. I think it’s a big scam. They put her out there, you know, as the face of, like, the American population that wants to have abortion rights,” Behar acknowledged.
In a video launched on X Thursday morning, Melania Trump calls abortion a “fundamental principle.”
“Individual freedom is a fundamental principle that I safeguard. Without a doubt, there is no room for compromise when it comes to these essential rights that all women possess from birth. Individual freedom. What does ‘my body, my choice’ really mean?” the ex-president’s spouse shared.
However Behar mentioned the stance appeared disingenuous.
“I believe that that is only a huge lie,” Behar said. “I do not purchase it.”
Co-host Sunny Hostin then provided her tackle the previous FLOTUS’s message, suggesting Melania was making an attempt to undermine her husband, former President Trump, a month out from election day.
“I really think that this is her way of undercutting his bid for the presidency because then she doesn’t have to deal with him anymore,” Hostin mentioned. “I think that she wants to take him out and she’s doing a pretty damn good job with that.”
Trump and his operating mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) have sought to melt their tone on abortion in current months, given how a lot the problem has damage Republicans on the poll field since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Trump mentioned this week that he would veto a nationwide abortion ban if he returns to the White Home and such laws lands on his desk. Nonetheless, he has additionally mentioned he is happy with his function in overturning constitutional protections for reproductive rights.
Melania additionally touched on ladies’s bodily autonomy in her forthcoming memoir.
“Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life,” Melania wrote, in line with experiences from The Guardian.
Trump claimed he was conscious and in assist of Melania expressing her views on the politically delicate subject, in an interview with Fox Information’s Invoice Melugin that aired Thursday.
“We spoke about it. And I said, you have to write what you believe. I’m not going to tell you what to do. You have to write what you believe.”
