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Trump Gets Embarrassing Fact-Check on Abortion Minutes Into Debate

By Paige Oamek,

6 hours ago

Donald Trump got a fact-check live on air just minutes into the presidential debate on Thursday.

Speaking on abortion, Trump spread lies for several minutes about reproductive care. The former president claimed that the governor of West Virginia allowed doctors to terminate a pregnancy not only after viability but after the baby was born.

In response to Trump’s claims, the ABC News anchor Linsey Davis gave him an embarrassing live correction.

“There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it is born,” she said, before quickly pivoting to Kamala Harris.

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Julia Guillen

2h ago

Check out Alexee Trevizo from NM basically aborted her full term son and murder case dropped.

Steve Eberheart

2h ago

Of all the lies to tell why tell a lie that is so blatantly false? Who the fuck believes someone is allowed to just kill a newborn baby as a medical procedure?

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