Trump renews misleading claim about Obama and child separation policy

President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed it was the Obama administration that began the practice of separating migrant children from adults at the U.S.-Mexico border, a contention nonpartisan fact-checkers call “misleading.”

“Just so you understand, President Obama separated the children. Those cages that were shown — I think they were very inappropriate — were by President Obama’s administration, not by Trump. President Obama had child separation.

“Take a look. The press knows it. You know it. We all know it. I’m the one who stopped it. President Obama had child separation,” he told reporters alongside his Egyptian counterpart in the Oval Office.