Elon Musk on Monday accused Vice President Harris of mendacity about former President Trump supporting a nationwide abortion ban, after a neighborhood notice was apparently added to a put up from her marketing campaign account.
“When will politicians, or at the very least the intern who runs their account, study that mendacity on this platform doesn’t work anymore?” Musk wrote on his social platform X on Monday morning, attaching a screenshot of Harris’s assertion with a neighborhood notice including context.
By Monday afternoon, Harris’s put up didn’t embrace a neighborhood notice. It isn’t clear when, and for a way lengthy, the notice was there.
In her authentic put up on Sunday, Harris wrote that “Donald Trump would ban abortion nationwide,” including, “President @JoeBiden and I’ll do the whole lot in our energy to cease him and restore ladies’s reproductive freedom.”
Musk additionally commented immediately on Harris’s put up on X, writing Sunday evening, “He clearly stated he wouldn’t achieve this within the debate.”
Trump’s place on abortion has been on the coronary heart of many marketing campaign debates this cycle. For months, he teased that he would announce his official place on the contentious challenge, and, in April, introduced abortion legal guidelines ought to be left as much as states.
In that announcement, he averted taking a place on a federal abortion ban, however quickly after stated he wouldn’t signal such a ban, noting, “as a result of we don’t want it any longer. As a result of we broke Roe v. Wade.”
The Biden-Harris marketing campaign hit again at Musk’s accusation, linking to earlier reporting about Trump privately signaling that he would assist a 16-week ban, earlier than his official announcement on the problem.
The marketing campaign additionally famous Trump has repeatedly touted his function in overturning Roe v. Wade, pointing to the three justices he appointed who supplied the bulk crucial to take action. The marketing campaign additionally pointed to Trump’s diversified public statements on the matter in current months.
“Elon Musk can Google it: Donald Trump needs to ban abortion nationwide, enable his allies to ban medicine abortion and contraception, and use the ability of the federal government to harass and punish ladies,” marketing campaign spokesperson James Singer stated in a press release.
“This election is a alternative between codifying Roe and defending ladies’s elementary rights, and permitting excessive politicians to intrude with medical choices and rip away freedoms,” Singer added.
