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CNN: OK, We Admit That Obama Separated Families At The Border. But… lidblog.com/cnn-obama-sepa… via @yidwithlid
On Monday, as a case in point, network legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin insisted that outgoing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen would be remembered as “the woman who put children in cages” and “broke up families across the border.”
It was an indirect way of reprising the heavily debunked myth that Donald Trump initiated the border separation policy when in fact it began under the Obama administration.
The following day, during a panel discussion on the same topic, the network’s National Security Analyst Samantha Vinograd did concede that Obama separated families at the border. But this being CNN, Vinograd couldn’t stop at merely setting the record straight....
....Instead, she had to manufacture a difference between Trump’s implementation of the policy and Obama’s. So what was that difference? That Obama did it for the children’s own good — to “protect” them — while Trump was … well, being Trump.
