In an MSNBC town hall interview with host Chris Matthews — to be aired Wednesday night at 8 p.m. — GOP frontrunner Donald Trump made a severely uninformed comment about his plan to punish women for getting illegal abortions.
Asked if he’d criminalize abortion, Trump said, “There has to be some form of punishment.”
“For the woman?” Matthews clarified.
“Yeah,” Trump said.
When asked if he thought a man should also be held accountable for an abortion, Trump doubled down: “I would say no.”
True to form, Trump didn’t elaborate what that “punishment” would be.
His new stance is so far right as to represent a perfect balance of ignorance and pandering. And opponents have taken to his medium of choice, Twitter, to air their grievances:
Trump on abortion is like Trump on basically everything else: the man has quite evidently put zero thought into the issue. None.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 30, 2016
Imagine, for a moment, that Trump was trying to lose. How much differently would he act? https://t.co/JC3cfJXu78
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) March 30, 2016
Trump taking anti-abortion policy to its logical conclusion, something policymakers usually avoid https://t.co/RncJz6PFd4
— Irin Carmon (@irin) March 30, 2016
Are we sure Trump doesn't get a cut from the Dem ad makers that he will make filthy rich with statements like these? https://t.co/hGZ6EupeSu
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) March 30, 2016
