Trump yet again lies about his family separation policy but gets fact-checked to his face

[kpete]

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Trump sat down for an interview with Telemundo’s José Díaz-Balart, where he lied about the usual, like taking credit for President Obama’s Veterans Choice health care program, and the laughable, like falsely claiming he’s gaining huge support from “the Hispanics” because they “want toughness at the border.” But the most shameless lying was regarding his humanitarian disaster at the border.

“The ‘zero tolerance’ policy, is that a mistake?” Díaz-Balart asked. “When I became president, President Obama had a separation policy,” Trump replied, lying. “I didn’t have it, he had it. I brought the families together. I’m the one that put them together.” Díaz-Balart knew this was a pile of lies and would say so just a few moments later, but first laid out the scale of Trump’s disastrous policy to his face.

”2,800 children were reunited with their parents in the last year,” he told Trump. “We don’t even know—the government doesn’t even know how many children are still not with their parents. They don’t know, which I find incredible.” Trump tries to go back to blaming an “Obama plan,” but Díaz-Balart, sensing the imminent bullshit rant, begins to tell Trump that, no, we’re talking about what he did.

“I’m the one that put people together, they separated, I put them together,” Trump tried to counter. ”You did not,” Díaz-Balart informs him. “2,800 children were reunited with their parents in this last year after the ‘zero tolerance’ policy separated thousands of them.” Trump replied, “Excuse me, because I put them together,” of course not all seeking to be excused. “That’s because I put them together.”

Díaz-Balart, without missing a beat, replies, “Under court order, I might add, right?” Yup, because it was only under a federal judge’s order that the administration began to reunite these families, and it’s been only under court order that the administration is now tracking down other children who were separated before his policy was officially in place. Officials have so far identified 1,712 additional kids, and because they’re only partly through that court-mandated recount, there could be thousands more.

MORE:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/21/politics/fact-check-trump-telemundo/index.html
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/21/1866404/-Trump-again-lies-about-his-family-separation-policy-and-gets-fact-checked-finally-to-his-face?utm_campaign=trending

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[underpants]

1. ✅

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2. Trump looked totally flummoxed during that interview, even he didn't believe his own lies

Every interviewer should follow Diaz-Balart's example: hit Trump with the facts in real time, not after the interview is over. Fact checking Trump after the fact is pointless. Keeping a running total of his lies does no good. Like a dog that shits on the living room carpet, rubbing Trump's nose in his own bullshit as he's taking a dump is the only way to interview him.

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3. That's how you deal with a malignant narcissist moran.