• Donald Trump wouldn’t say if he supports the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing a new Texas law to stand that bans abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected
  • ‘Do you agree with the ruling?’ Sharyl Attkisson asked in an interview Saturday 
  • ‘Well, I will tell you this: We do have a Supreme Court that’s a lot different than it was before,’ Trump said, dodging the question
  • The full on-camera interview will air next Sunday, September 12 
  •  Trump also said he feels the ruling is likely temporary
  • ‘I know that the ruling was very complex and also probably temporary,’ he said

Donald Trump wouldn’t say whether he agrees with the Supreme Court ruling upholding a new Texas heartbeat law that bans abortion after six weeks – or when a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

In his first on-camera interview since leaving office, Trump said the ruling is likely temporary.

‘I know that the ruling was very complex and also probably temporary,’ the former president told Sharyl Attkisson in an interview taped Saturday in Bedminster, New Jersey. ‘I think other things will happen and that will be the big deal and the big picture.’

The full interview will air next Sunday, September 12 on Full Measure.

When asked if he supported the new ruling, Trump dodged the question – instead taking credit for a series of conservative rulings due to his appointment of three Supreme Court justices during his four years in office.

‘Both sides seem to agree that this ruling is largely your doing based on the Supreme Court picks that you made. Do you agree with the ruling?’ Attkisson asked.

‘Well, I will tell you this: We do have a Supreme Court that’s a lot different than it was before, it was acting very strangely. And I think, probably not in the interests of our country,’ Trump said.

Of the new law, the former president said: ‘I’m studying it right now.’

The Texas law has received a slew of criticism from progressive and pro-choice activists and has been lauded by the pro-life community.

Progressive lawmakers even proposed a bill last week limiting the terms of Supreme Court justices in response to the ruling and the Senate launched a probe into the most restrictive law on abortions yet to be upheld.

Trump’s comments to Attkisson was his first reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision last week to not stop new controversial abortion restrictions in Texas from becoming law.

‘We’ll see what would happen,’ the former president said in a clip of the interview. ‘But we’re sending the ruling and we’re studying also what they’ve done in Texas.’

‘But we have great confidence in the governor and the attorney general and the lieutenant governor,’ he added. ‘There are a lot of great people in Texas and we have a lot of fans and a lot of support in Texas.’

Trump previewed: ‘So we’ll be announcing something over the next week or two weeks.’

The new law in Texas is the most restrictive abortion law and relys on private citizens to sue providers if they do terminate a pregnancy past when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which falls around six weeks after conception.

In the frame of unplanned pregnancies, many women are still unaware they are pregnant by the six week mark.