The New York Times reported that Donald #Trump privately told his allies he 👉backs a 16-week national abortion ban 👈with some exceptions.
Inside the Trump #campaign, the news was immediately met with deep 🔹annoyance, 🔸anger, and a scramble for ♦️damage control, two people familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone.
Prior to the report, the former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner had repeatedly stressed to advisers that ♦️he wants to avoid announcing specific abortion policy positions, ♦️at least during this stage of the election cycle, sources close to him say.
This is, of course, largely because he understands the dismantling of Roe v. Wade — which he engineered — has become a grave political
🌧️liability for Republicans.
Members of Trump’s senior staff were #maddened by the leak to the Times, venting to one another that whoever #blabbed to the media about this wasn’t being helpful, the two sources recount.
They weren’t the only ones upset by it: The report also served to #inflame some of the anti-abortion movement’s most uncompromising figures, who lashed out at Trump for being insufficiently “pro-life.”
Some Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill winced at the news too; they, like Trump, hoped to spend the first half of 2024 talking about #abortion 🔸as little as possible, 🔸according to one GOP lawmaker who bemoaned the recent string of conservatives’ election losses that have largely been attributed to “the #Dobbs effect.” Democrats, on the other hand, were thrilled. 
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-abortion-plan-leak-inflamed-campaign-1234973014/