Elon Musk humiliated Kamala Harris on his social media platform X Monday, confirming she lied about Donald Trump’s position on a national abortion ban.
In April, Trump said that he is against a national abortion ban – and wouldn’t sign a law if re-elected as president because he already ‘broke’ Roe v. Wade, while refusing to clarify if he identifies as pro-choice or pro-life.
Trump reiterated that position during his first debate with Harris’ boss Joe Biden Thursday, in a horrific spectacle that has left Democrats reeling for what to do next ever since.
However, on Monday, Harris tweeted: ‘Donald Trump would ban abortion nationwide. President @JoeBiden and I will do everything in our power to stop him and restore women’s reproductive freedom.’
Musk reposted a screenshot of the tweet to his own account, complete with several community notes reiterating Trump’s resistance to a national ban.
The Tesla CEO wrote: ‘When will politicians, or at least the intern who runs their account, learn that lying on this platform doesn’t work anymore?’
The community notes cited pieces published by center-left and even reliably liberal-friendly outlets like CNN, BBC, The Associated Press and The New York Times.
Trump told reporters at the April press event with Speaker Mike Johnson at Mar-a-Lago that there is no need for a national abortion ban anymore because of the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The president previously flip flopped over he would support a national abortion ban, angering supporters on the right and liberals.
‘We don’t need it any longer because we broke Roe v. Wade, and we did something that nobody thought was possible. We gave it back to the states and the states are working very brilliantly in some cases,’ he explained.
When pressed further by a reporter over whether he identifies as ‘pro-choice’ or ‘pro-life,’ Trump brushed it off.
‘You know exactly which one it is,’ he responded. He then went on to compare himself to Ronald Reagan, because the two GOP leaders were once registered Democrats.
‘When I was in New York, and when I was a Democrat also just like Ronald Reagan, you know. Ronald Reagan was a Democrat, we sort of fall in a very similar path.’
He praised the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, three of which he appointed as president.
Trump also accused Democrats as being the ‘radicals on this’ because they’re willing to have abortions up to birth.
‘That’s extreme and that’s radical, and nobody should have that. And it has to be ended.’
The former president released a video earlier this week in which he stated that abortion policy should be let up to the states – finally revealing his stance on the highly controversial issue after teasing it for months.
He didn’t specify a time frame in which he would support or not support abortion in the video of his highly-anticipated announcement posted on Truth Social.
Trump celebrated the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2022, which has caused two years of debate over how abortion should be handled now at the state and federal levels.
The 77-year-old also said in the four-and-a-half minute video that he believed in exceptions for a right to terminate a pregnancy in the case of rape, incest and to save the life of the mother.
‘We have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land,’ Trump said in the video.
He also accused Democrats of believing in ‘executing the baby after birth’.
Previously, Trump has suggested he would support a 15-week federal-level ban on abortion.
Speaking last month on radio show Sid & Friends in the Morning Trump confirmed some reports that he was considering proposing policies that would implement a federal ban that would allow abortion through the first trimester.
‘The number of weeks, now, people are agreeing on 15, and I’m thinking in terms of that, and it’ll come out to something that’s very reasonable,’ Trump said in the interview.
‘But people are really — even hard-liners are agreeing, seems to be 15 weeks, seems to be a number that people are agreeing at. But I’ll make that announcement at the appropriate time.’
Now, Trump dodged by throwing the issue to the states.
Those most staunchly against abortion are disappointed that Trump didn’t go far enough with his policy roll-out after calling himself for years the most pro-life president in U.S. history.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America says the group is ‘deeply disappointed’ in Trump’s position and said giving the issue to the states ‘cedes the national debate to the Democrats.
The group said it will ‘work tirelessly to defeat President Biden’ in November.