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Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2024-09-11): "I’ve seen people on television … the people on television claimed my dog was taken and used for food," Trump said, interrupting Muir. "So maybe he said that, and maybe that’s a good thing to say for a city manager." [...] Trump appeared to be referencing a moment during a 2020 vice-presidential debate between Harris and then-Vice President Mike Pence. [...] The Trump campaign did not directly address a question from The Post asking to clarify what Trump meant. Instead, they sent a statement from campaign advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles saying in part that Trump was "the clear winner" of the debate.
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2024-09-10): Harris is misrepresenting what Trump said, as Trump himself pointed out moments later. Harris is referring to a comment Trump made at a rally he held in Vandalia, Ohio, in March. [...] Debate background: Rounding up our recent claims on Donald Trump [...] Debate background: Immigration a key issue even as encounters at southern border drop
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2024-09-11): FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: The people on television say my dog was taken and used for food. So maybe he said that and maybe that's a good thing to say for a city manager. [...] FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I said that sarcastically. You know that. It was said, oh we lost by a whisker. That was said sarcastically. Look, there's so much proof. All you have to do is look at it. And they should have sent it back to the legislatures for approval. I got almost 75 million votes. The most votes any sitting president has ever gotten. I was told if I got 63, which was what I got in 2016, you can't be beaten. The election, people should never be thinking about an election as fraudulent. We need two things. We need walls. We need -- and we have to have it. We have to have borders. And we have to have good elections. [...] LINSEY DAVIS: President Trump thank you. And that is our ABC News presidential debate from here in Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center. I'm Linsey Davis.
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2018-11-01): THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much, everyone. Appreciate it. And good afternoon. I would like to provide an update to the American people regarding the crisis on our southern border — and crisis it is. [...] THE PRESIDENT: We’re working on a system where they stay together. But I will say that, by doing that, tremendous numbers — you know, under the Obama plan, you could separate children. They never did anything about that. Nobody talks about that. But under President Obama, they separated children from the parents. We actually put it so that that didn’t happen. [...] THE PRESIDENT: We will be holding the family and the children together. Remember this: President Obama separated children from families. And all I did was take the same law, and then I softened the law. But by softening the law, many people come up that would not have come up if there was separation.
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2020-10-23): Trump says children separated from their parents were "so well taken care of" For the first time, President Trump addressed the finding that the federal government still cannot find the parents of 545 children separated at the border. At Thursday's presidential debate, Mr. Trump claimed his administration is working to reunite children with their parents, but also claimed the children in U.S. custody have been "so well taken care of." [...] "President Trump said the separated children were 'so well taken care of.' I've been inside the border processing centers where many kids and families were held. They were under resourced. Crowded. Staff overwhelmed. Groups of young kids crammed into windowless rooms," she wrote.
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2020-10-23): The phrase "kids in cages" has become a catchall for the Trump administration’s approach to immigration enforcement in recent years, to the president’s evident frustration. As he pointed out during Thursday night’s presidential debate, he didn’t build the "cages" — the Obama administration did. [...] Biden responded by stating, correctly, that the Obama administration did not systematically separate parents from their children at the border, a practice that generated such backlash that the first lady and Trump’s daughter Ivanka joined the groundswell of people who pressured him to end it. [...] Fleeing poverty, chronic violence and joblessness, the families also were spurred by smugglers telling them that children who cross the border could generally avoid lengthy detention and certain deportation. Those claims were accurate.
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2024-09-11): - In the context of Muslim bans and children being separated from their families at the border, what does the phrase "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" mean to you? Does it conflict with your policies? [...] Please take all this for what it is: One citizen’s suggestion to deviate from questioning as usual. And a plea to be willing to fact-check what each candidate says in real time. The stakes are too high for any other approach. [...] The presidential debate will be between Kalama Harris, left, photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr, and Donald Trump, photo also by Gage Skidmore via Flickr
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2020-10-23): President Donald Trump defended his Administration’s decision to separate migrant children from their parents—and would not detail how he planned to reunite hundreds of kids who reportedly remain separated years later. At the final presidential debate Thursday night, Trump was asked about the families of 545 kids who have not been located after being separated because of his administration’s immigration policy. The Trump Administration previously pursued a "zero-tolerance" immigration policy as a deterrent for immigrants by prosecuting adults who crossed into the country illegally, resulting in systematic family separation. While many of the families separated by this practice have been reunited, it was later learned that the number of separated children was bigger than initially reported. Earlier this week, members on the steering committee charged with reuniting the families, including the ACLU, said 545 children’s parents still cannot be found, and estimated that about two-thirds had been deported without their kids. [...] The zero-tolerance policy sparked national fury in 2018 when thousands of families were torn apart at the border, with heartbreaking crying of some of the children among one of the most poignant cases against it. Eventually, the Trump Administration reversed course following public outrage. A recent New York Times report on an inspector general’s investigation into the policy revealed that top Department of Justice officials knew the policy would separate families, yet chose to pursue it broadly.
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2020-10-23): President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden faced off Thursday in their final presidential debate, which took place at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Over 90 minutes, they covered a wide range of topics in a more substantive way than in their first debate — thanks in part to fewer interruptions because each opponent's microphone was muted during initial responses. [...] Biden and Trump sparred over immigration and Trump's policy of separating children from their parents at the border. Trump was asked how he would reunite the reportedly more than 500 children whose parents can't be located. [...] "They [the Trump administration] separated them at the border to make it a disincentive to come here to begin with," he said.
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2021-10-28): In spring 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched a pilot program in El Paso, Texas,9 to systematically separate hundreds of children from their parents at the border. Many children were separated as a result of a new effort to criminally charge parents with illegal entry into the United States or reentry after removal, but children also were separated from parents who came to a port of entry to request asylum and could not, therefore, be criminally prosecuted.10 The goal of the policy was to deliver a clear message of deterrence to future border crossers—regardless of whether they were fleeing persecution or had other grounds to request protection under federal law—that the United States would no longer adhere to law or basic human decency in its treatment of families seeking refuge. [...] While the issue largely slipped from public consciousness for a period of time, more than 1,000 additional families were separated even after the executive order and federal court injunction.22 In fact, the consequences of the Trump administration’s family separation policy continue even to this day. Just days before the final presidential debate in October 2020, a status report filed with the court overseeing the class-action lawsuit revealed that organizations working to locate and reunite separated families—almost entirely without the federal government’s help—were unable to even make contact with 545 parents of separated children.23
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2020-10-23): The third and final presidential debate gave Donald Trump and Joe Biden the opportunity to make their final pitch to the American people before the 2020 election. For the Democratic nominee, that meant driving home the point that he believes in science, that he’ll take the COVID-19 pandemic seriously, that climate change is real, and that systemic racism must be dealt with. For Trump, it meant making it clear that in addition to being a science-denying, QAnon-promoting dimwit, he’s also an actual monster who thinks separating small children from their parents, in some cases permanently, is absolutely fine. Asked by moderated Kristen Welker about the news that parents of 545 children separated at the border—60 of whom are under the age of five—cannot be located, Trump defended the policy and gave no explanation for how the government plans to find these people and reunite their families. "Children are brought here by coyotes and lots of bad people, cartels, and they’re brought here and they used to use them to get into our country," Trump said, which is objectively false, as they are brought here by their parents, which is why it’s called the family separation policy. "We now have as strong a border as we’ve ever had. We’re over 400 miles of brand new wall. You see the numbers and we let people in but they have to come in legally."
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2024-06-27): President Biden pushed back, calling Trump’s statements lies and "malarkey." Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than people born in the U.S., studies show. [...] Trump tried to frame the border as a free-for-all and chaotic, and Biden pointed out that under Trump, children were being separated from their families after crossing the border. "When he was president, he was taking, separating babies from their mothers, putting them in cages, making sure that families are separated," Biden said. "That’s not the right way to go."
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2024-08-20): Nick and I would get into arguments at the dinner table over things like immigration. He would say that there’s this invasion of people coming across the border, but I could usually move him when I got into the emotional, human thing. When I showed him photos of families being separated from their babies because of the Trump administration, he couldn’t tolerate that. Sometimes he might say, "Oh, that’s a doctored photo," but I could see on his face that the photos had an effect. [...] This story uses a pseudonym to protect the subject’s identity
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2024-06-04): THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. I’ve come here today to do what the Republicans in Congress refuse to do: take the necessary steps to secure our border. [...] Why? Because Donald Trump told them to. He told the Republicans — it has been published widely by many of you — that he didn’t want to fix the issue; he wanted to use it to attack me. That’s what he wanted to do. It was a cynical and a – extremely cynical political move and a complete disservice to the American people, who are looking for us to — not to weaponize the border but to fix it. [...] So, I will never demonize immigrants. I will never refer to immigrants as "poisoning the blood" of a country. And further, I’ll never separate children from their families at the border.
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2023-06-08): President Donald Trump didn’t say "‘GOOD’ about the kids being separated from the parents" at the southern border during the final presidential debate, as social media posts wrongly claim. He said "go ahead" to the moderator, who was trying to move on to the next topic. [...] In this last installment of the year in our collaboration with CNN’s "State of the Union," CNN’s Jake Tapper reviews four of the biggest whoppers told by President Donald Trump in 2018. Q: Did the Obama administration separate "72,410 Children From Their Families in 2013"?
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2020-10-22): By — Associated Press Associated Press Leave a comment 0comments Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-defends-separating-children-from-their-families-at-the-border Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter WATCH: Trump defends separating children from their families at the border Politics Oct 22, 2020 11:29 PM EDT President Donald Trump is defending his administration’s separation of immigrant children who remain away from their families following detentions along the U.S.-Mexico border. Watch the moment from the debate in the player above. Trump said during Thursday’s debate that children are often brought across the border not by families but "by coyotes and lots of bad people." The American Civil Liberties Union told a judge this week that there were still 545 children separated from their parents from 2018. Trump said his administration had constructed more than 400 miles of his promised border barrier. He also said, "They built cages," referring to Obama-era facilities depicted in media reports during the separations. Democrat Joe Biden disputed Trump’s answer, saying kids "were ripped from" their families in 2018. As he has done since the primary campaign, Biden defended the Obama administration’s immigration policy, admitting that it "took too long to get it right."
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2024-06-27): This is a guy who says Hitler’s done some good things. I’d like to know what they are, the good things Hitler’s done. That’s what he said. [...] If he thought they were good people coming out of that all – that forest, carrying those – those woods, carrying those torches, then he didn’t deserve to be president, didn’t deserve to be president at all. [...] TRUMP: If it’s a fair and legal and good election – absolutely. I would have much rather accepted these but the fraud and everything else was ridiculous that if you want, we’ll have a news conference on it in a week or we’ll have another one of these on – in a week.
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2024-07-26): I’ve read her autobiography and watched her debate. And yet I feel as though I couldn’t tell you much about her, outside of the fact that she keeps being elected to higher and higher offices. She has no clear political identity; she always seems stuck between places.
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2024-07-22): Today, immigrants arriving at the US Mexico border are fleeing from the crisis in Venezuela, the war in Ukraine and cartel violence in Ecuador, just to name a few. [...] Her response was criticized by conservatives as disconnected and flippant towards border communities and agencies which have felt overwhelmed by the influx of migrants in recent years. [...] She was part of a Senate hearing on the Trump administration’s highly controversial separation policy, in which undocumented migrant children were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, as a form of immigration deterrence. She questioned Trump officials, and said separating families can cause "irreparable harm."
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2018-06-18): An audio recording obtained by ProPublica adds real-life sounds of suffering to a contentious policy debate that has so far been short on input from those with the most at stake: immigrant children. More than 2,300 of them have been separated from their parents since April, when the Trump administration launched its "zero tolerance" immigration policy, which calls for prosecuting all people who attempt to illegally enter the country and taking away the children they brought with them. More than 100 of those children are under the age of 4. The children are initially held in warehouses, tents or big box stores that have been converted into Border Patrol detention facilities. [...] Still, the administration had stood by it. President Donald Trump blames Democrats and says his administration is only enforcing laws already on the books, although that’s not true. There are no laws that require children to be separated from their parents, or that call for criminal prosecutions of all undocumented border crossers. Those practices were established by the Trump administration. [...] Has your family been separated at the U.S.–Mexico border? Are you a worker at a detention center or do you aid families who have been affected? Tell us more at [email protected] or 347-244-2134.
Claim: Says Donald Trump said “good” during the final presidential debate in reference to families being separated at the border. (Facebook posts, 2020-10-23)
Evidence (2018-10-02): More in this seriesThroughout the spring of 2018, as the number of family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border exploded, President Donald Trump's administration insisted that the government took thousands of kids from their parents because the families had committed a federal crime. [...] Spokesmen for ICE and Customs and Border Protection declined to comment, citing pending litigation. But the court documents in a case called Ms. L vs. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) show that this happened to dozens of others. The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in February, mentions at least 40 other examples of families who were separated at the border, even though they weren't prosecuted for crossing illegally. Ms. L and her young daughter presented themselves to border agents at a bridge between Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego last year and were separated anyway. [...] In past statements, the government has claimed it would only separate families at ports of entry if it's not sure of the familial relationship, or is worried about issues like child abuse.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2020-09-15): The U.S. doesn’t lead in coronavirus case numbers because it tests more. If the cases weren’t there, testing wouldn’t reveal them. The U.S. is in the middle of the pack globally for the percent of tests that come back positive. Trump falsely characterized his own record on protections for people with pre-existing conditions and distorted Democrats’ stance on this issue. Trump misled about early statements on the coronavirus from Dr. Anthony Fauci and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-04-29): Currently, the top federal rate on ordinary income is 37%. Biden has proposed increasing it to 39.6%, which was the top rate back in 2017. Starting in 2018, President Donald Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that made many cuts, including the 2.6% cut to the top ordinary income tax rate. Notably, though, the new 39.6% rate is only supposed to apply to taxpayers making $400,000 or more. [...] President Biden is proposing a tax increase for people making more than $400,000 a year to help finance Medicare. The increase would hike the Medicare tax rate from 3.8% to 5%. [...] President Biden also wants to impose a minimum tax on billionaires. The provision is controversial in part because it is a type of wealth tax rather than a traditional income tax. Despite the billionaire label on the proposal, this new tax would also apply to people who are wealthy but a long way from being a billionaire. If passed, the billionaire tax would be a minimum of 25% for households with net worth exceeding $100 million.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2021-06-21): Biden's proposal would raise the top federal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends to 39.6%, from 20%, for taxpayers with annual income over $1 million. [...] Biden's proposal is part of a broader plan to raise taxes for households making more than $400,000 a year, to help fund domestic initiatives that largely benefit the low and middle class. The plan would change capital gains taxes in other ways, too, including taxing appreciated assets upon an owner's death. [...] Their top rate under Biden's proposal would be 43.4% (which includes the 39.6% federal rate and the 3.8% net investment income tax). By comparison, California, New York, and New Jersey would have combined rates of more than 54% for the wealthiest residents.