By Signing Order, Trump Confesses He Could Have Stopped Family Separations Immediately

Oliver Willis

June 21, 2018 4:00 am

Trump has finally admitted that his policy of ripping children from their parents at the border was completely unnecessary — and exposed the Republican Party’s complicity in enabling the abuse of families.

On Wednesday, Trump announced that he would sign an executive order that, he claimed, “will keep families together.” Whether it actually does that remains to be seen. But we don’t even have to see the order to know that by making this announcement, Trump is admitting defeat. He’s admitting that nothing he has said so far about why his administration is abusing families is true.

He’s admitting that all along, he had the power to stop this. He has blamed Congress, and Democrats in particular — but he is responsible for it happening in the first place.

As public outrage mounted over his abusive policy, Trump repeatedly lied.

He lied and said that he could not change the abusive policy. He lied and said that Democrats were opposing legislation that could end it. He lied and said that Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush had done the same thing.

None of that was true.

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