‘This Guy Agrees With That’: Trump Falsely Claims That Tim Walz Is In Favor of Aborting Babies After They Are Born

Former President Donald Trump repeated a false claim that some people, namely governors, favored killing babies after they are born.

During his press conference at Mar-A-Lago on Thursday, Trump answered a question about abortion by citing a Virginia House Bill that loosened restrictions on late-term abortions but raised questions about abortion “up until the moment of birth,” even while a woman was in active labor.

In a 2019 interview , former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) tried to explain that if a woman was in labor, the infant “would be delivered.” It became complicated for Northam when he further tried to explain that if an infant — which cannot be aborted, since it has been born — was born with a health issue that made it incompatible with life: “The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

But many on the right, including Trump, wrongfully twisted this message as “Democrats want to allow babies to be killed after birth.” And according to Trump’s claim, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) — Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate — agreed with this:

And you know, when you think about the radical, the Democrats are really the radical ones in this because they’re allowed to do abortion on the eighth and ninth month and even after birth. If you look at your new governor from Minnesota, he’s talking about, he’s like the governor previous, the former governor. I don’t want to get him mixed up because Glenn is doing a good job and he’s leading our, he’s leading our whole campaign in Virginia. Glenn Youngkin . But previous to Glenn, the governor, he said, “The baby will be born. We will put the baby aside and we will decide with the mother what we’re going to do.”

In other words, “whether or not we’re going to kill the baby.” The Minnesota gentleman, this guy agrees with that. He is the most liberal — look, between her and him, there’s never been anything like this. There’s never been a combination. So I’ll use the word “progressive.” You know, they want to go progressive. They don’t like the word “liberal.” I like “liberal” better. I think it’s more appropriate because nobody knows what “progressive” means.

Watch the video above via CNN.