Campaign Action
Donald Trump went on Fox & Friends Friday morning and once again repeated his lie about ripping children from their parents' arms—according to Trump, it’s all the Democrats’ fault. This is a lie. It’s not a judgment call whether this is a lie. It’s not something that Trump might plausibly believe to be true even though it was false. It’s a lie.
All the way back in March 2017, then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly—who is now defending the policy as Trump’s chief of staff—was floating the possibility of separating kids from their parents at the border. It is a policy that the Trump administration thought about and decided to carry out, not some case where their hands are tied and they just can’t do any different.
Trump has even yelled at Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen for not separating enough kids from their parents. Is that something a person does if they’re reluctantly carrying out a policy they think is wrong?
Trump’s press secretary and attorney general have invoked the Bible to defend ripping children from their parents’ arms.
If it’s something they thought about for a year before doing it, and say is biblical, and Trump’s rage that it’s not happening fast enough has brought one of his top officials to the brink of resignation … then guess what. When Donald Trump blames it on Democrats, he lies. And when other Republicans blame it on the courts, they lie. This is Republican cruelty. Trump cruelty.