Conservatives Are Furious Trump Is Distracting From Planned Parenthood
Republican presidential candidate and noted abortion flip-flopper Donald Trump has yet to make a statement on a pair of sting videos that allege Planned Parenthood affiliates are selling tissue from aborted fetuses for profit.
His silence on the issue enraged conservative commentators and right-leaning political observers on two levels. On one hand, they blasted the mainstream media for conveniently glomming onto the latest Trump sound bite instead of substantively covering the sting videos. On the other hand, they suggested the real estate mogul was missing an opportunity to use his high profile to draw further attention to the Planned Parenthood controversy.
Rush Limbaugh complained a week ago, just a day after an anti-abortion group called The Center for Medical Progress released its first, edited undercover video, about all the air Trump was sucking out of the media.
"We're in a mess here. The Iranian deal's over here, this Planned Parenthood butchery, and we're talking Trump all day on CNN," Limbaugh said on his radio show, according to a transcript. "It's a way to not cover some of the really horrible things that are happening in this country and replace them with the bashing of Donald Trump, which I think has a subliminal effect of blaming Trump for it."
A couple days before, Trump had flatly dismissed Rep. Carlos Curbelo's (R-FL) speculation that Democrats planted him as a candidate to sow discord within the GOP presidential field. But the real estate mogul continued to rile up his fellow candidates Saturday at a confab for social conservatives in Iowa.
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