Bob Franken: Trump’s Accidental Truth Flirtation

Now that Donald Trump has decided to occasionally tell the truth, he might want to reconsider. It's gotten him in all kinds of trouble.

The subject of abortion really twisted him in knots, first with a not-to-be-deflected Chris Matthews on MSNBC, who persisted in asking Trump whether his calls to make abortion illegal meant that the person who got one should be penalized. Trump's reluctant acknowledgement that he believes she should receive "some sort of punishment" sent the political world, to say nothing of the social-media universe, into a storm of epic proportions.

Never mind that his resp...