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    'He was in his face': Trump fumes over abortion, courts evangelicals


    'He was in his face': Trump fumes over abortion, courts evangelicals
    By Gabby Orr
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...LMD?li=BBnb4R7

    The night before last week's National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump was hosting religious leaders and lawmakers for dinner at the White House when he spotted Democratic Senator Chris Coons — and pounced.

    Trump confronted the Delaware lawmaker — who attended the event as the Prayer Breakfast's official Democratic co-chair — over the issue of abortion, creating a tense scene in the White House's Blue Room, according to three sources familiar with the exchange.

    Trump leaned in close
    to Coons, who calls himself "a practicing Christian and a devout Presbyterian," and laced into the Democratic senator over controversial moves to change statewide policies on abortion that have roiled New York and Virginia politics in recent weeks. "He was in his face about it," said one person familiar with the exchange. The person described Trump as extremely "worked up."

    "He saw a Democrat in the room, a Democrat who's known to be a person of faith, and he was like, 'Why aren't you speaking out about this?'" the source added.

    Another source who was in the room confirmed the account, describing the moment as both "awkward" and attention-grabbing. Rarely has Trump been so vocal about abortion when the masses aren't watching, this person said. (A Coons spokesman declined to comment.)

    The private episode underscored Trump's recent public focus on abortion, which has delighted his evangelical Christian supporters. During his State of the Union address last Tuesday, Trump used vivid imagery to claim that New York's new abortion law would "allow a baby to be ripped from the mother's womb moments before birth." And he accused Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, who's backed similar legislation in his state, of wanting to allow medical providers to "execute" babies after birth.

    Abortion is a somewhat unlikely new cause for a president who years ago called himself "very pro-choice" and did not make the issue a central theme of his 2016 campaign. But people close to Trump say that he has developed an increasingly sincere passion for the cause....



    ...Politics aside, influential evangelicals like Reed insist that Trump has fervently opposed abortion for years. "I talked to him about it in 2010 and 2011 and he was unapologetically pro-life," Reed said. One former campaign aide recalled several instances when then-candidate Trump would participate in "praying sessions" before his rallies where faith leaders would often incorporate the topic of abortion.

    A White House official, who did not witness Trump's confrontation with Coons, said it illustrates how the president "genuinely views abortion... and isn't afraid to make the Democrats defend their extreme positions." The White House did not otherwise respond to multiple requests for comment.

    During a Tuesday meeting with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday, for instance, Trump again "raised his concerns about Democrats' support of late-term abortions," according to a White House readout provided to POLITICO.

    "He feels convicted,"
    said David O'Steen, executive director of the National Right to Life committee, adding that he hopes Trump will "continue to speak from the heart if he's as shocked as most people are by the idea of after-birth abortions."....










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