Donald Trump Slammed For Falsely Claiming That Obama Had The Same Immigrant Family Separation Policy
Donald Trump is under fire for arguing that his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the U.S. border was the same one employed by Barack Obama, a claim that critics say is a lie.
Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to attack a 60 Minutes report on his border separation policy. The report noted that the Trump administration had been slowly easing in the policy, first putting parts of it in place last year. Trump had previously claimed that the policy was out of his hands and blamed Democrats for not fixing immigration policies, before reversing course and ordering the policy to stop. In his tweet on Sunday, Trump claimed that “phony story” misrepresented his policy and that “they know we had the exact same policy as the Obama Administration.”
