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Michelle Obama assailed President Donald Trump on Monday for ripping migrant children from their parents and throwing them into cages, picking up on a frequent and distorted point made widely by Democrats. She's right that Trump's now-suspended policy at the U.S.-Mexico border separated thousands of children from their families in ways that had not been done before. But what she did not say is that the very same 'cages' were built and used in her husband's administration, for the same purpose of holding migrant kids temporarily. In her remarks Monday night during her keynote address at the Democratic National Convention,...

[snip]On illegal immigration, Mrs. Obama lamented "putting kids in cages" as she claimed President Trump has no empathy.(her "nibbs" and old fake news)But the facts and her husband's history as president tell a different story. It was the Obama administration that first instituted the policy of separating children from adults at the border. President Obama was the first to "put kids in cages." Her statement on the issue was so misleading, it landed her a fact-check from the (Associated Press.)

Mainstream and liberal media pundits went weak at the knees for former first lady Michelle Obama's Democratic National Convention speech on Monday. Obama's primetime address skewered President Donald Trump and urged voters to choose Democrat Joe Biden like their lives depended on it, and it made an impression. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow said she could not breathe during Obama's speech, ABC's George Stephanopoulos called it a "sermon," and left-wing comedian Stephen Colbert simpered, "I’ll be honest with you. My job is to have a joke for every time somebody says anything in public. After watching Michelle Obama’s speech, I have never...

First Lady Michelle Obama proudly defended her husband’s record at a Washington, D.C. fundraiser, reminding the attendants how far the country had come since the Obamas entered the White House.

I thought Michelle Obama gave a great speech last night. Too bad the lackeys in the MSM will not even do a cursory fact check of some of the things she said. The most obvious and demonstrable falsehood she put out involved Obama's grandmother and her struggles to break through the 'glass ceiling' in the 1960's-1980's. Michelle repeated VERBATIM the lines she has used before which you can find here from 2011 http://cnsnews.com/news/article/michelle-bank-sex-discriminated-against-barack-s-grandmom-tax-returns-barack-inherited........................... .But believe me, Barack knows this all too well,” Mrs. Obama continued. “He understands these issues because he’s lived them. He was raised by a single mother...