The Most Alarming Answer From Trump’s Interview With Time

This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become. “You’ll have to speak to the individual states.” —Donald Trump, responding to the question of whether state governments should be allowed to monitor women’s pregnancies to know if they’ve had abortions On April 12, former President Donald Trump sat for an interview with Time. Even as Cortellessa insisted that it was “important to voters” to know where he stands, Trump didn’t budge, even when asked how he felt about women being punished for having abortions. Here are some highlights: Asked if he would fire a U.S. attorney who didn’t prosecute someone under his orders, Trump said, “It depends on the situation, honestly.” He also implied that if the Supreme Court case on the matter of presidential immunity didn’t go Trump’s way, Joe Biden would be prosecuted for his “many crimes.” He said he would consider pardoning all the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, implying that many of them had been tricked into storming the Capitol: “You see it on tape, the police are ushering them in.” When asked if he would restrict hiring to people who believe the 2020 election was stolen, he said he “wouldn’t feel good” about anyone who thought that Biden won. Asked if he agreed that anti-white racism was worse than anti-Black racism, he said, somewhat evasively, “If you look right now, there’s absolutely a bias against white and that’s a problem.” He criticized Benjamin Netanyahu for failing to prevent the events of Oct. 7, but his main critiques of the country’s military actions had to do with its poor handling of “public relations.” And finally, when asked what would happen if he didn’t win the election, Trump didn’t commit to a peaceful defeat: “And if we don’t win, you know, it depends.