Trying to rewrite the history of his family separation policy

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By Aaron Rupar
Jun 21, 2019, 11:50am EDT

... Trump dodged .. questions about the family separation policy his administration implemented last year by asserting, falsely, that he inherited it from Obama ...

“When I became president, President Obama had a separation policy — I didn’t have it, he had it,” Trump said. “I brought the families together. I’m the one that put them together ... President Obama is the one who built those prison cells” ...

During the Obama administration, family separations were rare and predicated upon two conditions: whether border officials felt the parents or guardians posed a threat to the children, or whether the adults, under U.S. immigration law, had to be detained based on prior criminal convictions.

... Trump’s lies about family separation aren’t new. But the fact that he pushed the same false, revisionist history in two new interviews tells us something about how he plans to deflect from questions about his family separation policy heading into 2020.

https://www.vox.com/2019/6/21/18700575/trump-family-separation-policy-obama-time-telemundo