Anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson, who has said she doesn’t believe in women voting and has suggested that police should racially profile her own son, endorsed President Trump for re-election on the second night of the Republican National Convention.
“I support President Trump because he’s done more for the unborn than any other president,” Johnson said, adding, “This election is a choice between two radical, anti-life activists, and the most pro-life president we’ve ever had. That’s something that should compel you to action.”
Johnson became an anti-abortion activist after working at Planned Parenthood.
Last year, “Unplanned,” a movie based on her story, was a box-office success despite questions about some of the details of the story.
In the day leading up to her speech, reports surfaced of recent two controversial statements by Johnson.
In a YouTube video posted earlier this year in the wake of the protests that followed George Floyd’s death, Johnson noted that her adopted biracial son would likely face discrimination from police that her white sons wouldn’t.
To Johnson, who is white, this made sense.
“Statistically, I look at our prison population and I see that there is a disproportionately high number of African-American males in our prison population for crimes, particularly for violent crimes,” said Johnson.
A Brookings Institute study found that in 2011, only 6 percent of the arrests of Black men were for violent crimes.
Johnson also supports the policy of one vote per household.
Adopting a head-of-household policy would in effect disenfranchise millions of married women by returning to the status quo before the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
“What is the most controversial thing you believe?” Johnson asked on Twitter in early May, replying to her own tweet, “I would support bringing back household voting. How anti-feminist of me.”
When asked “What happens when the husband is a Republican and the wife is a Democrat or vice versa?” Johnson replied, “Then they would have to decide on one vote. In a godly household, the husband would get the final say.”
In the minutes leading up to her speech, Johnson was still expressing her support for that position.
Another planned speaker for Tuesday night’s convention, Mary Ann Mendoza, was pulled from her speaking slot at the last minute after promoting a QAnon-related conspiracy theory earlier in the day that Jews are intent on enslaving the world.
Mendoza is a member of Trump campaign’s advisory board.
Mendoza is an “angel mom,” a term used by immigration restrictionists for mothers whose children were killed by undocumented immigrants.
She has been a regular presence at the White House for events advocating limits on immigration and is on the campaign board of Women for Trump.
Mary Ann Mendoza, who hates Jewish people, has been a regular in the Oval Office with Donald Trump
But earlier today, she promoted an anti-Semitic Twitter thread from a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory who claimed that in 1773, a Jewish goldsmith summoned other businessmen to his home and proclaimed that if they pooled their money, “it was possible to gain control of the wealth, natural resources, and manpower of the entire world.”
She apologized and deleted the thread after others publicized her tweet, but Mendoza in 2018 tweeted something similar about a wealthy Jewish family controlling the world:
“The Rothschilds have used their globalist media mouthpiece to declare that Donald Trump is threatening to destroy the New World Order!”
Tim Murtaugh, the communications director for the president’s reelection campaign, confirmed that Mendoza’s video remarks were pulled from the convention lineup on Tuesday and that they will not run this week.
But neither officials from the president’s campaign nor the Republican National Committee responded to a request for comment on how deeply — or whether — Mendoza had been vetted in advance of being assigned her speaking role.