Trump gave the interview at his Mar-a-Lago home and a follow-up phone call to TIME Magazine reporter Eric Cortellessa. The outlet ominously titled the piece, "How Far Trump Would Go." ...

To its credit, TIME released the full transcript of the interview separately, no doubt secure in the knowledge that no one except maybe a couple of media types would ever take the time to read through it. Weighing in at over 16,000 words, it is rife with provocative pull quotes and bumper-sticker bites that, taken out of context, are sure to pierce quaking liberal hearts with terror. Online newser Axios picked up TIME's baton and ran hard with it.

The Axios column is titled "Behind the Curtain: Listen to Trump"—a revealing allusion to the old saying, "When your enemy tells you his plans, listen." From there, it's basically a top-ten list of scary (to liberals) out-of-context phrases authors and Axios founders Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen culled from the interview.

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Anyway, let's proceed to the meat of the article. "You might like this or loathe it," the authors accurately observed. "But, based on two interviews with Time magazine totaling more than 80 minutes, you no longer can ignore Trump's intentions." They then launched into the scary things scary Orange Man said, beginning with—naturally— abortion.

On whether states should monitor women's pregnancies so they can know if they've gotten an abortion that violates a ban (say, after 15 weeks of pregnancy): "I think they might do that. Again, you'll have to speak to the individual states." (...Biden tweeted about that quote: "This is reprehensible.")

Or, as a sane person would read this, Trump thinks states get to figure out how to enforce the laws they pass. The horror! But remember, we're talking about people who literally believe "The Handmaid's Tale" will come to pass the instant Trump is sworn in.

To give a little more context, Trump's reply was, "I think they might do that. Again, you'll have to speak to the individual states. Look, Roe v. Wade was all about bringing it back to the states ..." When pressed about his own feelings on a hysterical Democrat fever dream of what enforcement might look like, Trump stuck to his guns, saying, "The states are going to say. It's irrelevant whether I'm comfortable or not. It's totally irrelevant, because the states are going to make those decisions."

When asked if he would veto any federal-level abortion bills, Trump pointed out, "But you have to remember this: There will never be that chance because it won't happen. You're never going to have 60 votes. You're not going to have it for many, many years, whether it be Democrat or Republican. Right now, it's essentially 50-50. I think we have a chance to pick up a couple, but a couple means we're at 51 or 52."

"And the states are just working their way through it," Trump also noted. "Look at Ohio. Ohio passed something that people were a little surprised at. Kansas, I mean, places that are conservative and big Trump states, I mean, Ohio and way up Kansas, all these states, but they passed what they want to pass. It's about states rights." To a Democrat, not being able to enforce your will on everyone in the entire country may be terrifying. But to liberty-minded Americans who like the idea of having a say over their state and regional laws, it's just the way it should be.

Next, the Axios lads leaned into their favorite bogeyman, the so-called Insurrection!

...In the original interview, it went like this:

Are you worried about political violence in connection with this November's election?

Trump: No. I don't think you'll have political violence.

You don't expect anything?

Trump: I think we're gonna have a big victory. And I think there will be no violence.

In the follow-up, it went:

Mr. President, in our last conversation you said you weren't worried about political violence in connection with the November election. You said, "I think we're going to win and there won't be violence." What if you don't win, sir?

Trump: Well, I do think we're gonna win. We're way ahead. I don't think they'll be able to do the things that they did the last time, which were horrible. Absolutely horrible. So many, so many different things they did, which were in total violation of what was supposed to be happening. And you know that and everybody knows that. We can recite them, go down a list that would be an arm's long. But I don't think we're going to have that. I think we're going to win. And if we don't win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election. I don't believe they'll be able to do the things that they did the last time. I don't think they'll be able to get away with it. And if that's the case, we're gonna win in record-setting fashion.

Now, if you believe—as all good Democrats do—that Trump personally ordered and commanded an insurrection-y uprising, then you would likely hit the fainting couch after reading this. But if instead, you realize that Trump understands the 2020 election was extremely unconventional and rife with irregularities (at best), then you weren't surprised that some unarmed far-right people rioted. Trump knows he isn't personally responsible for other people's stupid behavior, and thus he isn't threatening to make it happen again since he didn't make it happen the first time. You also realized that, compared to the damaging, deadly political violence the left consistently wreaks in this country, the Capitol riot was a drop in the bucket. (It's worth noting, too, that Axios left out the context of the balloting irregularities Trump called out in his answer)... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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