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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

Oct 16 • 29 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X

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I am going to put together a thread covering Trump's "women's issues" Fox News town hall with Harris Faulkner. Follow along for clips and commentary.

Let me note up top that if you appreciate me watching Trump so you don't have to, please support what I do by signing up for my newsletter. I think you'll enjoy Public Notice and paid subscribers make my work possible. publicnotice.co/subscribe

Lol not exactly an undecided group of women here

Trump's opening pitch to women is ranting about migrants

Trump is now talking about his favorite graph. It's really notable that he has about three or four talking points he loves and he uses them over and over, regardless of whatever question he's asked (scary migrants, tariffs, deportation ...)

TRUMP: I said we are not gonna tax social security benefits

FAULKNER: And we can pay for that?

TRUMP: *keeps ranting*

after letting Trump rant about migrants for about 10 minutes, the Fox News "women's issues" town hall has now pivoted to transphobia

FAULKER: How do you stop men from playing in women's sports? Do you go to the sports leagues?

TRUMP: You just ban it. Not a big deal.

Q: What can you do to make having children more affordable?

TRUMP: You never heard of Ivanka, right?

FAULKER: How can we help people afford bacon?

TRUMP: There wouldn't have been a Ukraine and Russia. There wouldn't have been an October 7.

Trump claims that if he was president right now, US energy production would be double Russia and Saudi Arabia combined

Trump's face is the same color as the wood paneling

https://x.com/MattGertz/status/1846570877518794901

Not surprising but notable. There's also a woman in the crowd literally wearing an "RNC DELEGATE" hat.

https://x.com/MattGertz/status/1846570877518794901

We're 30 minutes into the Trump "women's issues" town hall and here have been the topics so far

1. Migrant fear-mongering
2. Transphobia
3. Migrant fear-mongering

Trump on the immigrants he wants to come to the country: "They're gonna in through testing. They're gonna in through, like, 'Do they love our country? Can they love our country?"

Trump seems to think humanitarian parole status for immigrants is the same thing as being on probation after you are convicted of a crime

lol Trump is taking ANOTHER question on "immigrant crime." Fox News really wants women to believe this is THE ISSUE of the election

Trump acknowledges that there are "bad apple" police officers (who brutalize and kill people) but says he's giving them immunity anyway

after saying he'll give police blanket immunity, Trump incoherently says that "people know the bad apples" and those cops won't have immunity

Faulkner plays Trump the clip of him calling Adam Schiff "the enemy within." Trump says "I think it was a nice presentation. I wasn't unhinged ... it is the enemy from within. And they're very dangerous. They're marxists and communists and fascists."

Q: What policies would you implement to help hurricane-affected families and business recover?

TRUMP: We give hundreds and billions of dollars to foreign countries, many of which you've never heard of

FAULKER: Can you make FEMA better?

TRUMP: It was great with me

CROWD: *laughs*

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We're 50 minutes in to the one hour town hall and Trump finally gets a question about abortion. Trump breaks out the usual talking points about how everyone wanted Roe to be overturned, it's back to the states, etc etc

Trump: "I'm the father of IVF"

Trump describes Katie Britt as "a young, just a fantastically attractive person"

this is one of Trump's weirdest talking points that he uses all the time

That's is for Trump's "women's issues" Fox News town hall. If you appreciate me watching it so you didn't have to, pls support what I do by signing up for Public Notice. I think you'll like our coverage & paid subscribers are how I pay the bills. Thanks. publicnotice.co/subscribe

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