Trump Says He Would Reach ‘Great Deal’ on Abortion If Elected

Former President Donald Trump said on May 16 that he would be able to reach a deal on abortion that the “whole country can agree with” if he were reelected to the White House.

“We’re in a position now where we can get something that the whole country can agree with, and that’s only because I got us out of the Roe v. Wade, where the pro-life people had absolutely nothing to say,” Trump told Newsmax TV, without providing details on the aforementioned deal.

When asked to elaborate, the former president indicated that he had put pro-life states in a “very powerful negotiating position.”

“Nobody thought it was possible to do what I did with Roe v. Wade and now, because of what I did, we have a very powerful negotiating position—more powerful, frankly, than the other side,” Trump said.

He added, “But on pro-life, I will tell you, what I did on Roe v. Wade, nobody else—for 50 years they’ve been trying to do it. I got it done. And now we’re in a position to make a really great deal, and a deal that people want.”

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June last year following a 6–3 vote. Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the court’s majority opinion, said that “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” and that “it is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”