In one, the president is shown hugging and kissing an Israeli army watchtower built into a border separation wall.

He described the wall as ‘the least important thing we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important.’

The explanation offers distinctly different scenarios for when and how the claimed conversations with Boy Scout leaders and the Mexican president took place.

Immigrants compete with American families for much-needed jobs and drive wages down, he says, but most economists dispute those arguments.