evidence: 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.