Former President Donald Trump claimed abortion is “largely off the table” and people are “very happy” that he helped end Roe v. Wade in an interview taped on the eve of a key Supreme Court hearing on the issue.
Trump recently released a widely covered announcement in which he took great pains to convey that his actions led to the end of Roe v. Wade, while also trying to insist the issue is now no longer relevant to national politics because it’s been “returned to the states.”
But the end of Roe has placed abortion on the ballot in many states this November, and resulted in Supreme Court cases like the one being heard Wednesday over emergency abortion care.
Trump did an interview with Walter Perez of Philadelphia’s WPVI 6ABCthat was taped Tuesday, just 24 hours before that hearing, in which he insisted the issue of abortion is “off the table” and “people are very …