Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) criticized Donald Trump for comments the former president made on Saturday claiming that women won’ even be thinking about abortion if he’s elected president.
“That’s just ludicrous,” Whitmer said in an interview on “State of the Union” with CNN’s Jake Tapper. “This guy just doesn’t understand what the average woman is confronting in her life in this country, and how could he? He’s not lived a normal life.”
Whitmer said Trump’s experiences are different from Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ who “has worked hourly jobs, who knows how important it is that women have health care and access to the medical care that they need.”
“He’s just deranged,” Whitmer added.
At a rally in North Carolina on Saturday, Trump repeated a portion of one of his Truth Social rants form earlier in the day claiming that “women will be happy, healthy, confident and free” and “will no longer be thinking about abortion,” if he’s elected.
In a statement to The Hill, Trump’s spokesperson Steven Cheung accused Democrats of using “hateful rhetoric” after Whitmer’s comment.
“Kamala Harris and liberal Democrats are the ones who are deranged. There have been two heinous assassination attempts on President Trump, and their violent rhetoric are directly to blame. Their outright lies and weaponization of the justice system to perpetuate countless witch-hunt hoaxes against President Trump have been nothing short of disgusting and abhorrent,” Cheung said in the statement.
“If the Democrats and Kamala Harris do not come out and apologize for their hateful rhetoric and tone down their attacks that have stoked the flames of violence, they are explicitly advocating for and inciting more bloodshed against President Trump,” he added.
