CNN’s Tapper live fact-checks Harris on Trump’s quote about protecting women: ‘Just quote him exactly’

CNN’s Jake Tapper gave a direct fact-check of Vice President Kamala Harris after she claimed former President Trump said he would “do whatever he wants” whether “the women like it or not.”

At a rally in Phoenix, Arizona on Thursday, Harris claimed Trump will do whatever he wants on abortion restrictions and policing of women’s bodies.

“Now in America, one in three women lives in a state with a Trump abortion ban, many with no exceptions, even for rape and incest, which is immoral. And Donald Trump hasn’t done that. Did everyone hear what he just said yesterday? That he’s going to do what he wants, quote, and this is where I’m going to quote ‘whether the women like it or not,'” Harris said.

Jake Tapper fact-checked Vice President Kamala Harris during his show Thursday. (CNN screenshot)

She continued: “We’re going to vote because that’s the point. You know they say you listen to people when they tell you who you are and this isn’t the first time he’s told us who he is . He does not believe that women should have agency and authority to make decisions about their own bodies.”

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Trump’s comments were about how he would “protect women” from illegal immigrants being let in by Harris’ border policies.

“Kamala has imported criminal migrants from prisons and jails, from insane asylums and mental institutions all over the world from Venezuela to the Congo, including savage criminals who assault, rape and murder our women and girls. Anyone who would let monsters kidnap and kill our children don’t belong anywhere near the Oval Office,” Trump said at a rally.

Trump added: “I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I’m going to protect them.”

After playing the clip from Harris’ rally, Tapper corrected the vice president, adding that she left out context.

Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York on October 27, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

“When Trump said he was going to do something for women whether they like it or not, whether the women like it or not, he was talking about protecting women, protecting women whether they like it or not. Of course can you take issue with the language, but he didn’t say he was just going to do whatever he wanted,” Tapper said.

After his panel on “The Lead” laughed at his fact-checking, Tapper followed up: “I mean, you get my point. He’s saying I’m going to protect them whether the women want me to protect them.”

Democratic strategist Karen Finney noted, “Some would say it’s misogynistic—”

“It’s not the way she presented it,” Tapper said.

“Look, at the end of the day, I think we have to be careful in these last days. We did this in 2016,” Finney said. “He’s going to say something horrible, ridiculous…”

“Then just quote it exactly.” Taps interrupted.

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“That’s not my point,” Finney continued. “I just don’t think we need to say every update because the point is what she wanted, where she wanted, which is we know who this guy is. This is not someone who respects women. That being said , sorry, I think the Puerto Rico ad or General Kelly’s comments are in a different category.”

Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally on October 28, 2024 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images))

Harris made the same inaccurate interpretation of Trump’s statements in a post on X.

“Donald Trump thinks he should get to make decisions about what you do with your body. Whether you like it or not,” Harris wrote while sharing a clip of Trump’s speech.

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