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Fact Checking Last Night's Debate
Trump says Clinton and President Obama caused the violence at Trump rallies.
FACT CHECK: Clinton and Obama did not cause violence at Trump rallies.
Trump claims he didn’t “get anything” with money from his charitable organization, the Trump Foundation.
FACT CHECK: False.
The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold found earlier this year that Trump has purchased two portraits of himself with charity money.Another investigation by the Post found Trump had similarly bought bought a signed football helmet at a charity auction for $12,000. Trump never personally foot the bill; instead, the money was sent to the Susan G. Komen organization (the breast cancer awareness charity that hosted the auction) from Trump’s own charitable foundation.
Clinton claims Trump is the only presidential candidate in the last four decades not to release his tax returns.
FACT CHECK: True.
Clinton says Trump has used undocumented labor to build Trump Tower in New York.
CLINTON STATEMENT: “He used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower.”
FACT CHECK: True.
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Clinton says the Affordable Care Act extended the solvency of Medicare.
CLINTON STATEMENT: “The Affordable Care Act extended the solvency of the Medicare trust fund, so if he repeals it our Medicare problem gets worse.”
FACT CHECK: True.
Trump claims health care premiums are going up more than 60 percent.
TRUMP STATEMENT: “The premiums are going up 60, 70, 80 percent. Next year they’re going to go up over 100 percent.”
FACT CHECK: False.
According to the independently run website ACASignups.net, which tracks these increases, premiums for 2017 will go up an average of 25 percent nationally. Some states will have increases that are higher than that average, like Arizona’s (57 percent increase); some will have lower increases, like California (13.2 percent increase). Rates for 2018 have not yet been set.
Donald Trump claims that Clinton supports allowing abortions in the ninth month of pregnancy.
FACT CHECK: False.
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Clinton says Trump supported the Iraq war before the 2003 invasion.
CLINTON STATEMENT: “He has consistently denied what is a very clear fact – that before the invasion he supported it.” (Trump interjected with: “Wrong.”)
RULING: True.
Trump claims he never met the women who have accused him of sexual assault.
FACT CHECK: False.
Clinton says Trump bought Chinese steel for his Trump Hotel.
CLINTON STATEMENT: “Donald has bought Chinese steel and aluminum, in fact the Trump Hotel right here in Las Vegas was made with Chinese steel.”
FACT CHECK: True, according to a Newsweek investigation published earlier this month.
Trump pushes back against Clinton’s claim that he had said the women accusing him of unwanted sexual advances were not attractive enough to sexually assault.
FACT CHECK: Partially true.
Trump never used the exact language that the women weren’t “attractive enough.” But in reference to the People Magazine reporter who accused him of forcing himself on her, Trump did once tell a rally crowd: “Look at her, I don’t think so.” And of Jessica Leeds, who accused him of groping her on an airplane decades ago, he said: “She would not be my first choice.”
Clinton says Trump said he wanted to deport every undocumented person in the U.S.
CLINTON STATEMENT: “He said as recently as a few weeks ago in Phoenix that every undocumented person would be subject to deportation.”
FACT CHECK: True.
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