Donald Trump’s statements during Thursday night’s debate — including that he “did nothing wrong” during Jan. 6 and also never slept with a porn star — were not fact checked by host station CNN, but viewers on social media did not hold back when the former president mentioned “afterbirth abortion.”
“NO ONE ABORTS A BABY AFTER BIRTH! Whether you are pro-choice or anti-abortion that is a FULL LIE,” Julee Jonez wrote on X.
Trump, who energetically tore into a somewhat meek Biden all night, floated the patently false idea that some states are engaging in abortion after birth, or, as he more colorfully phrased it, “rip[ping] the baby out of the womb.”