President Trump's supporters famously take what he says (or tweets) as truth and ignore contradictory information (especially from the media). Perhaps the child-separation debacle at the border will break that spell.
Trump, his attorney general, and his head of homeland security have defended the zero-tolerance policy in ways that make your head spin. They said they didn't create the policy — and that they did. They claimed that "Democrat law" required the separations — though no previous administration believed that. They claimed they weren't using the policy as a deterrent — and that they were. They said the children were not a bargaining chip — but Democrats would have to vote for Trump's wall to change things.
Finally, Trump personally and repeatedly claimed that he could not change his policy by executive order — right up until he signed such an order today.
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Time to wake up and smell the falsehood.
David Shannon
Midtown
Disclaimer: As submitted to the Arizona Daily Star.