Trump did his first interview with Spanish-language TV — and he told a bunch of lies: report

On Thursday, the Spanish-language network Telemundo (Univision’s main competitor in the United States) aired its first interview with President Donald Trump. Telemundo’s José Díaz-Balart conducted the interview in English — Trump doesn’t speak Spanish — and Telemundo posted it on YouTube with Spanish-language subtitles. And when CNN’s Daniel Dale fact-checked the interview, he found some blatant lies and distortions.

Trump told Díaz-Balart that he inherited from President Barack Obama a policy of routinely separating families at the U.S./Mexico border. The president claimed, “When I became president, President Obama had a separation policy. I didn’t have it. He had it. I brought the families together.”

But Dale, in an article for CNN’s website, points out that under Obama, family separations at the U.S./Mexico border “were rare” — and it was Trump who “made them standard.”

View the complete June 21 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.