Kellyanne Conway Lies To Chris Wallace: Trump Didn't Know Zero-Tolerance Policy Would Separate Families
While discussing the horrendous conditions in some migrant detention facilities during Sunday's Fox News Sunday, Senior Adviser Kellyanne Conway lied to Chris Wallace's face when she claimed that Trump was never informed that children would be separated from their parents as a result of the zero tolerance policy they implemented in April 2018.
The topic turned to family separations during the interview after Conway filibustered about Sunday's raids by ICE and Chris Wallace asked directly, "OK, let me ask about -- what about the family separation -- "
Conway said, "So I'm against separating families, let me make that clear, she said, I think you can enforce the law without separating families."
And then Conway told maybe her biggest lie of the interview.
"And I know firsthand had my boss and our president been told ahead of last year's zero-tolerance policy by people who are no longer in the administration that the net effect of that would have separating children from their parents," she said.
Conway continued, "While the parent's claims are being adjudicated, the idea was to protect the child so the child..."
We know Donald Trump does not like to read briefings of any kind or have lengthy meetings about his policies, but this is really ridiculous even for Conway.