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Former President Donald Trump focused his first public appearance after the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade on decrying Democratic activists who poured into the streets after a draft opinion for the case was leaked.
Speaking to supporters at one of his “Save America” rallies in Mendon, Illinois, Saturday evening, the former commander in chief celebrated the ruling as “a victory for the rule of law and, above all, a victory for life” and slammed protesters who demonstrated outside the homes of conservative justices.
“Thanks to the courage found within the United States Supreme Court, this long divisive issue will be decided by the states, and by the American people,” Trump told the crowd at the Adams County Fairgrounds. “That’s the way it should have been many many years ago, and that’s the way it is now.”
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“I especially want to commend the justices for standing strong in the face of outrageous threats and even violence,” he continued. “You’ve been seeing what’s been going on. There’s never been a time like this. The left-wing campaign of terror directed at the Supreme Court in recent months is unlike anything in the history of our country.”
The former president went on to condemn “attempted assassination of Justice Kavanaugh, the illegal intimidation of justices homes, and the radical Left’s violent terrorist attacks on pro-life centers” as “a frontal assault on our republic.”
“This was an organized and concentrated effort to threaten the court and interfere with its decisions,” Trump said of the outrage that ensued ahead of the ruling. “But the justices stood their ground against these extremists and these terrorists, and they did not back down.”
In his most notable comments, he condemned Democratic Party leadership for not focusing their own ire on the threats made against Supreme Court justices after the Dobbs draft was leaked in May. Instead, Trump argued, Democrats kept their focus on the Jan. 6 select committee hearings that began this month.
“At the very moment the radical Democrats are staging a ridiculous fake trial over January 6, their party leaders are saying nothing about the violent intimidation of the United States Supreme Court,” he said. “They refuse to talk about it. They refuse to do anything.”
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Trump was in Illinois to stump for Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL), who is embroiled in a bitter primary fight against Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL).
The deep-red region of the largely blue state pitted the two House Republicans against each other after state lawmakers redrew its congressional map. Miller, who is serving her first term, currently represents Illinois’s 15th Congressional district, while Davis has represented the much more moderate 13th District since 2012. He is now seeking to take Miller’s seat in the newly drawn map.
Davis, who has been known as a mainstream member of the GOP, is being pulled to the far Right of his party as a result of the primary. As their fight heats up, the five-term lawmaker is taking heat from critics to his right over his stance on the 2020 presidential election. Davis, who will head the House Administration Committee if he wins his primary and Republicans retake the House in November, voted to certify President Joe Biden’s election victory and supported the original bipartisan Jan. 6 commission that was killed in the Senate.
