'A despicable moment': Trump hammered for 'ratings' joke about woman's death

A glib comment by Donald Trump, delivered with a smirk during a Fox News town hall on Wednesday, led to outrage on MSNBC on Thursday afternoon.

MSNBC host Ana Cabrera drew attention to comments made by the former president after he was alerted by Fox News personality Harris Faulkner that critics of his abortion policies were doing a "prebuttal" aimed at his appearance at the women-only Fox event.

Among those critics were the parents of Amber Thurman , a Georgia woman who was allowed to die due to anti-choice legislation passed by the state's Republican legislative majority that led doctors to withhold care over fears of being arrested .

ALSO READ: People have had enough': Here are the 3 'big-picture' reasons why Kamala Harris will win

During the Faulkner interview, she stated, "Amber Thurman’s family have come out on a press call, and they’re doing what’s called a prebuttal to our town hall right now.”

That led the former president to joke, "Oh, that’s nice,” to which the pro-Trump audience laughed before he added, “We’ll get better ratings, I promise," which led to more laughter including from Fox's Faulkner.

After sharing the Fox News clip, MSNBC host Cabrera looked stunned and told her guests, "The ratings? The laughter? Jennifer, how should voters square that moment with what Trump has said about how women should trust him, that he's a protector of women?"

Former New Hampshire GOP chair Jennifer Horn angrily replied, "That was such a despicable moment to try to make a joke and pull a laugh out of the audience when discussing the completely unnecessary loss of life of a young woman."

"But it very much revealed, just another of the million examples of who Donald Trump is, and how he really thinks instinctively about women," she continued. "He said he's going to take care of women, 'the father of IVF.' He has no understanding of women as equal members of society, as equal, full, whole human beings. He's extremely paternalistic in his views of women, which makes him a dangerous potential leader for this country if he gets to be president again."

Watch below or at the link right here.

\- YouTube youtu.be

Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story.

Watch the video at this link.

Recommended Links:

• ‘Massive win': Advocates cheer overturning of ‘extreme’ abortion law blamed for 2 deaths
• 'Not true!' Walz tells Vance to 'mind your own business' after false abortion claim
• 'Reason to be skeptical': Experts warn J.D. Vance's 'backpedaling' on issue is smokescreen
• Trump says Jewish voters would be partly to blame for his election loss
• 2 women die in Georgia after they couldn't access legal abortions and timely care