Trump a 'large, orange puppet' to further Project 2025 plan to ban abortion drug: lawmaker

A Pennsylvania Democrat believes Donald Trump's team is using him as a "large, orange puppet" to further their Project 2025 agenda and ban an abortion drug.

Rep. Madeleine Dean talked Friday with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House" about the Republican presidential nominee's comments calling abortion a "small issue" in the election.

"That tells you everything you need to know about Donald Trump," said Dean. "It's a small issue for him because he doesn't care about the truth, the facts, or anybody else. It is not a small issue, I'll tell you, to my constituents. It's not a small issue to me, and my three daughters-in-law and my three granddaughters."

She emphasized: "This is an extraordinarily important issue."

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Dean believes that Trump didn't know what he'd been asked about Friday at his news conference from Mar-a-Lago, when a reporter asked about the abortion drug mifepristone and said he rambled incoherently.

Dean pulled out a copy of the much-maligned Project 2025 — the GOP-led plan to overhaul the federal government should Trump win the 2024 presidential election — and noted that on page 457 it calls for reversing approval of chemical abortion drugs and stopping the mail-order use of chemical abortion drugs.

"His team behind him, who is using him as this large, orange puppet, knows exactly what they're trying to do," said Dean. "Donald Trump doesn't have a clue."

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