Trump attacks ‘Fake 60 Minutes’ for ‘phony story’ on family separations at the border

Just hours after migrant families at the southern border were tear-gassed by U.S. authorities and tensions escalated between Russia and Ukraine, President Trump took to Twitter on Sunday night armed with harsh words. But his ire wasn’t directed at the caravan of thousands of Central Americans seeking asylum or at foreign leaders. Instead, the president was focused on a “60 Minutes” segment about family separations at the border, accusing “Fake 60 Minutes” of running a “phony story.”

The “60 Minutes” investigation into the Trump administration’s controversial “zero tolerance” policy, which aired Sunday evening, found that family separations had been going on for much longer than previously reported. Citing a 2017 “pilot program” that was rolled out months before then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s April announcement of the policy’s official implementation, the report concluded that “there may never be an accurate count of how many children were taken from their parents.”

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