Donald Trump says he was against the Iraq War, but he’s lying.
On September 11, 2002, Donald Trump supported invading Iraq “Are you for invading Iraq?” Howard Stern asked him, and Trump answered, “Yeah, I guess so.”
#Debates2016 #debates FACT CHECKING: Trump supporting War in Iraq on Howard Stern Show – 9/11/2002 @GoodMenProject pic.twitter.com/yFl5LcrPNo
— Fight4Hillary (@EndTrumpsHate) September 26, 2016
In 2016, Donald Trump told Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, he would have “stayed out of Libya” but he’s lying.
Back in 2011, Trump declared we should go in and attack Ghadafi. Trump did this loud and long on his own YouTube channel. The video is still posted. Go have a look.
#Debates2016 #debates TRUMP FACT CHECK. When Trump says “He would have stayed out of Libya,” he’s lying.@goodmenproject @HillaryClinton pic.twitter.com/86grAbHJEX
— Fight4Hillary (@EndTrumpsHate) September 26, 2016
Trump declares that Hillary Clinton would create “totally open borders” but the dude be lying.
Politifact writes: “This is a huge distortion of Clinton’s proposals. Clinton has praised work already done to secure the border, and she said she supported a 2013 bill that would have invested billions more in border security while creating a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants. Her plan calls for protecting the border and targeting deportation to criminals and security threats.”
#Debates2016 FACT CHECK TRUMP: Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton would create “totally open borders” FALSE https://t.co/SzLhUhlHbf
— Fight4Hillary (@EndTrumpsHate) September 26, 2016
Trump loves to say that Hillary wants to abolish the Second Amendment, but he’s… okay, you know what he’s doing.
ABC news wrote: When Trump made this same claim earlier in the cycle, Politifact rated the claim false after finding no evidence of Clinton ever advocating for the abolishment of the Second Amendment… Bottom line: there’s no evidence to support Trump’s claim.
#Debate #Debates2016 FACT CHECK: Donald Trump says Hillary wants to repeal Second Amendment– ABC News says FALSE – https://t.co/fSubH3n4fW
— Fight4Hillary (@EndTrumpsHate) September 26, 2016
Trump says that Hillary Clinton is the “co-founder of ISIS.” Did I mention he’s lying?
The Washington Post writes: “No. Within the administration, Clinton was one of the loudest forces for keeping a residual force in Iraq and for intervening in Syria, such as arming the rebels. So the criticism especially does not apply to her, since she advocated a more hawkish policy than was undertaken by Obama.”
#Debate2016 FACT CHECK: Trump’s claim that Obama and Clinton are ‘founders’ of ISIS. Washington Post says FALSE. https://t.co/COC3AO14oV
— Fight4Hillary (@EndTrumpsHate) September 26, 2016
Donald Trump says Clinton will allow 620,000 refugees into the US. He lies like a rug, that guy.
The Washington Post writes: “Clinton has never proposed such a ‘plan,’ so this is an invented figure.” So, he made this up which is a polite way to say he’s lying. We’re not so polite. He’s lying.
#debates #Debates2016 FACT CHECK: Donald Trump says Hillary would allow 620K unvetted refugees into US. FALSE https://t.co/lHBvfY2rVa
— Fight4Hillary (@EndTrumpsHate) September 26, 2016
Trump likes to say he will build a wall along the US Mexico border to end illegal immigration (which is down dramatically from a ten years ago, but whatever…) He also likes to say that Mexico will pay for it. Yeah. He’s kind of lying.
Then he met with the President of Mexico and afterwards say the issue of payment “didn’t come up.” Then the President of Mexico said they did discuss the wall and payment for it. Which makes Trump a liar. And no, Mexico will not be paying for the wall.
#debates #Debates2016 FACT CHECK: Trump says Mexico will pay for his wall along the US Mexico border. FALSE https://t.co/7Ubejh395p
— Fight4Hillary (@EndTrumpsHate) September 26, 2016
In case you’d like some more Trump lies, we’re happy to help. Like maybe so many, its a wonder how he gets anything else done in a day.
TRUMP’S LIES ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON
Clinton’s Proposed Policies
Associated Press: “Trump claimed Clinton has been running a policy-free campaign, lacking specific proposals.” // “It’s actually Trump who’s the newcomer to policy specifics… her campaign has produced so many pages of policy that they’ve been turned into a book.”
Politifact: Trump: “My opponent has no child care plan.” // Pants on Fire
Politifact: Trump says Hillary Clinton has “not answered a single question” about her immigration plan. // Pants on Fire
Politifact: Trump: “Hillary Clinton says she wants to, ‘raise taxes on the middle class.’ ” // Pants on Fire
Politifact: Trump says Hillary Clinton “wants to raise taxes on African-American owned businesses to as much as nearly 50 percent more than they’re paying now.” // FALSE
Politifact: Trump said Hillary Clinton’s plan “would tax many small businesses by almost 50 percent.”// “The surcharge “is not targeted to small business. It’s a wealthy person’s tax”
PolitiFact: It “is Hillary Clinton’s agenda” to “release the violent criminals from jail. She wants them all released.” // Pants On Fire
Washington Post: Trump: “This includes her plan to bring in 620,000 new refugees from Syria and that region over a short period of time.” // “Clinton has never proposed such a ‘plan,’ so this is an invented figure.”
Politico: “Hillary Clinton is the first person in history to run for the presidency who is proposing to abolish the borders around the country that she is supposed to protect,” Trump said // “The statement, which is not remotely close to being true…”
Washington Post: Trump: In Hillary Clinton’s America, “illegal immigrants … [are] collecting Social Security benefits, skipping the line.” // Four Pinocchios
Politifact: Trump said Hillary Clinton is “proposing to print instant work permits for millions of illegal immigrants to come in and take everybody’s jobs, including low-income African-Americans.” // FALSE
Politifact: Trump: “Hillary Clinton wants to shut down family farms” using “radical regulation,” by raising business tax “rates as high as nearly 50 percent” and by taxing “family farms again at death by as much as 45 percent.” // FALSE
PolitiFact: “Donald Trump falsely claims Hillary Clinton ‘wants to abolish the 2nd Amendment’” // FALSE
NBC News: Trump: “Her plan is to disarm law-abiding Americans, abolishing the 2nd amendment, and leaving only the bad guys and terrorists with guns.” // “In no way has Clinton proposed to abolish the Second amendment.”
ABC News: “Claim: Hillary Clinton wants to abolish the Second Amendment.” // False.
Vox: “[Hillary Clinton] says the solution is to ban guns. … She wants to take away Americans’ guns and then admit the very people who want to slaughter us. Let them come into the country. We don’t have guns. … She wants to take away Americans’ guns and then admit the very people who want to slaughter us. Let them come into the country. We don’t have guns. Let them come in, let them have all the fun they want.” // “Clinton has not called for anything remotely resembling a ban on guns…”
Washington Post: “Her plan is to disarm law abiding Americans, abolishing the Second Amendment, and leaving only the bad guys and terrorists with guns….She wants to take away American’s guns and then admit the very people who want to slaughter us.” // “Nope, Clinton does not want to abolish the Second Amendment.”
PolitiFact: Trump said Hillary Clinton “wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment.” // FALSE
NPR: Trump claim: “Hillary Clinton’s message is that things will never change. Never ever.” // “Clinton has reams of plans and proposals to change everything from the nation’s immigration system and criminal justice policies to the way people pay for college.”
Associated Press: TRUMP: “My opponent wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment.” // “THE FACTS: Hillary Clinton has not proposed any revocation of the constitutionally protected right to bear arms.”
VOX: Trump says: “My opponent wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment.” // FALSE
Clinton’s Record
CNN: “After 15 years of wars in the Middle East, after trillions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, the situation is worse than it has ever been before. This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.” // FALSE
Associated Press: Trump: “In just four years, Secretary Clinton managed to almost single-handedly destabilize the entire Middle East.” He blamed her for an invasion of Libya that “handed the country over to ISIS,” for making Iran the dominant Islamic power in the region and for supporting regime change in Syria that led to a bloody civil war. He charged that her “disastrous strategy” of announcing a departure date from Iraq created another opening for ISIS there. “These statements make only passing acquaintance with reality.”
Washington Post: Trump: “Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. because of Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails.” // Four Pinocchios
NBC News: Trump: “Her server was easily hacked by foreign governments — perhaps even by her financial backers in Communist China — putting all of America in danger.” // “…there is no evidence of penetration of the servers by hackers…”
Politifact: Trump: “Just look at what the FBI director said about her (Hillary Clinton) — her misconduct is a disgrace and embarrassment to our country.” // FALSE
CNN: “And when a secretary of state illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can’t see her crime, puts our country at risk, lies about it in every different form and faces no consequence — I know that corruption has reached a level like never, ever before.” “When the FBI director says that the secretary of state was ‘extremely careless’ and ‘negligent’ in handling our classified secrets, I also know that these terms are minor compared to what she actually did,” Trump said. // FALSE
NPR: Trump: “I am certain that [putting Hillary Clinton in charge of America’s foreign policy] was a decision that President Obama truly regrets.” // “President Obama has enthusiastically endorsed Clinton, so it would seem unlikely that he regrets choosing her to be his secretary of state.”
Associated Press: “TRUMP: “When a secretary of state illegally stores her emails on a private server” // “THE FACTS: Clinton’s use of a private server to store her emails was not illegal under federal law.”
VOX: Trump says: “When the FBI director says that the secretary of state was ‘extremely careless’ and ‘negligent’ in handling our classified secrets, I also know that these terms are minor compared to what she actually did.” // FALSE
Factcheck.org: Trump said Clinton ‘illegally’ stored emails on her private server while secretary of state, and deleted 33,000 of them ‘so the authorities can’t see her crime.’” // “The FBI on July 5 cleared Clinton of wrongdoing, and found no evidence of a cover-up.”
Politifact: “In response to FBI Director James Comey’s announcement that his agency will not recommend criminal charges against Clinton for her use of a private email server as secretary of state, Trump tweeted: ‘The system is rigged. General Petraeus got in trouble for far less. Very very unfair! As usual, bad judgment.’” // Two Pinocchios
Politifact: Trump: “We don’t know anything about Hillary in terms of religion. Now, she’s been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there’s no — there’s nothing out there.” // Pants on Fire
Factcheck.org: Donald Trump claimed there’s “nothing out there” about Hillary Clinton’s religion even though “she’s been in the public eye for years and years.” // FALSE
Factcheck.org: Trump claimed that the private server that Clinton used as secretary of state “was easily hacked by foreign governments.” // “Attempts were made to hack into Clinton’s server, but… there has been no evidence to date that any of them were successful.”
NBC News: Trump recklessly accuses Clinton of using State Department for personal financial gain // “No evidence of quid pro quo”
Politifact: Trump: “As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton laundered money to Bill Clinton through Laureate Education, while Bill Clinton was an honorary chairman of the group.” // FALSE
Politifact: Trump said Hillary Clinton’s State Department “approved the transfer of 20 percent of America’s uranium holdings to Russia, while nine investors in the deal funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.” // Mostly False: “there’s simply no proof of any quid pro quo.”
Politifact: “Trump said Hillary Clinton ‘filibustered legislation to reform’ Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.” // FALSE
CNN: “Trump said Clinton ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund, doing favors for oppressive regimes and many others in exchange for cash.” // FALSE
CNN: “Trump asserted that Clinton’s private email server was hacked when she was secretary of state.” // FALSE
Factcheck: “Trump lies in saying Clinton has not expressed her religious beliefs” // FALSE
Washington Post: “Donald Trump “called theories of possible foul play ‘very serious’ and the circumstances of [Vince] Foster’s death ‘very fishy.’” // Four Pinocchios
Washington Post: “Trump campaign claimed that State Department gave $55.2 million to Laureate Education after hiring Bill Clinton.” // Four Pinocchios
Washington Post: Trump: “Look at Benghazi, our ambassador. He wired [Clinton] 500 or 600 times asking for help.” // Two Pinocchios
Politifact: Trump: The Benghazi victims were “left helpless to die as Hillary Clinton soundly slept in her bed.” // FALSE
CNN: Trump: “Ambassador Stevens and his staff in Libya made hundreds and hundreds of requests for security. They were desperate. They needed help. Hillary Clinton’s State Department refused them all. She started the war that put them in Libya, denied him the security he asked for, then left him there to die.”// FALSE
Washington Post: Trump: “He [Ambassador Christopher Stevens] was left helpless to die as Hillary Clinton soundly slept in her bed.”// No evidence.
Washington Post: Trump: “Ambassador Stevens and his staff in Libya made hundreds and hundreds of requests for security. They were desperate. They needed help. Hillary Clinton’s State Department refused them all.” // “No requests from Stevens for additional security went directly to Clinton, and ‘hundreds and hundreds’ of requests is likely an exaggerated figure.”
NPR: Trump: “Ambassador Stevens and his staff in Libya made hundreds and hundreds of requests for security. They were desperate, they needed help. Hillary Clinton’s State Department refused them all. She started the war that put them in Libya, denied him the security he asked for, then left him there to die. To cover her tracks, Hillary lied about the video being the cause of death, the famous video.” // “Clinton said she relied on lower-level officials to make determinations about a security presence at the compound and had not personally denied any requests for more security there.”
CNN: Trump: “Ambassador Stevens and his staff in Libya made hundreds and hundreds of requests for security. They were desperate. They needed help. Hillary Clinton’s State Department refused them all. She started the war that put them in Libya, denied him the security he asked for, then left him there to die.” // FALSE
TPM: “Trump said Clinton ‘soundly slept in her bed’ through a 3 a.m. phone call warning that the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya was under attack in 2012. Trump said Clinton left Ambassador Chris Stevens ‘helpless to die’ and that she ‘refused’ his requests for security.” // “During her eleven-hour testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Clinton explained that the news of the attack broke at around 9 p.m. on the East Coast, where she was working from home.”
FactCheck.org: Trump says that “instead of taking charge” during the Benghazi attacks, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “decided to go home and sleep.” // “The evidence shows Clinton was fully engaged in the immediate response, and subsequent congressional investigations concluded the government response to the attack — including Clinton’s — was appropriate.”
FactCheck.org: Trump claimed that Clinton failed to take charge during the Benghazi attacks, and instead “decided to go home and sleep.” // “The evidence shows Clinton was actively involved in responding to the attacks, and subsequent investigations concluded the government response was appropriate.”
TRUMP’S LIES ON DOMESTIC POLICY
Clean Energy and Climate Change
Factcheck.org: Trump suggested “there is no drought” in California because the state has “plenty of water.” // False
Factcheck.org: He also said water is being shoved “out to sea” to protect a “three-inch fish” at the expense of farmers. // False
Factcheck.org: Trump said wind farms in the U.S. “kill more than 1 million birds a year.” // No evidence
Politifact: In California, “the windmills are killing hundreds and hundreds of eagles.” // Mostly False
Factcheck.org: Trump said “hairspray’s not like it used to be” because chemicals in it that affect the ozone layer have been banned…. He also said using hairspray in his apartment, “which is all sealed,” would prevent any ozone-depleting substances from escaping into the environment. // False
WRAL: “It could be warming and it’s going to start to cool at some point,” Trump said in a September radio interview. “And you know in the 1920s people talked about global cooling. I don’t know if you know that or not. They thought the Earth was cooling. Now it’s global warming. Actually, we’ve had times where the weather wasn’t working out so they changed it to extreme weather and they have all different names, you know, so that it fits the bill.” // “Nonsense”
Crime and Policing
Vox: Trump retweeted a chart detailing USA homicide statistics that indicated “the real problem in the criminal justice system is not police brutality or racial bias but black people themselves” // “…the numbers in Trump’s Tweet are completely wrong.”
Vox: Trump says: “Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this administration’s rollback of criminal enforcement.” // Baseless
ABC News: “Claim: Crime has increased under Obama’s presidency.” // False
Associated Press: “TRUMP: “Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this administration’s rollback of criminal enforcement.” // “President Barack Obama has actually achieved some big increases in spending for state and local law enforcement.”
Politifact: “Crime is rising.” // Pants on Fire
Politifact: Trump: “Inner-city crime is reaching record levels.” // Pants on Fire
Washington Post: Trump: “The policies put into place by Rudy ultimately brought down crime by 76 percent and murder by 84 percent.” // Three Pinocchios
Washington Post: “You know, I’m looking at statistics where your crime numbers are so crazy, they’re going through the roof, so we can’t have it anymore.” // Four Pinocchios
NPR: Donald Trump claim: President Obama “has made America a more dangerous environment that frankly that I have ever seen of anybody in this room has ever watched or seen.” // “The Brennan Center for Justice says overall crime rates from 2014 to 2015 were ‘nearly identical.’”
Factcheck.org: Trump: “There are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world. You go to places like Oakland. Or Ferguson. The crime numbers are worse. Seriously.” // False
Economy, Jobs, Labor and Wages
Huffington Post: Trump on America: “We don’t have money.” // “We’re the richest country in the world, and maybe in world history.”
New York Times: Trump: “G.D.P. was zero, essentially, for the last two quarters.” // “Essentially wrong”
Huffington Post: “The world is taking advantage of the United States and it’s driving us into literally being a third world nation.” // “The United States is not ‘literally’ turning into a third world nation.”
Factcheck.org: Donald Trump told an audience in New Jersey that he has more employees “than almost anybody in New Jersey.” // False
Factcheck.org: “Trump claimed credit for getting Ford Motor Co. to move a plant from Mexico to Ohio.” // “Ford says that’s baloney.”
Vox: Trump says: “Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers.” // FALSE
Associated Press: TRUMP on the unemployment rate: “This 5 percent figure is one of the biggest hoaxes in modern American politics.” // THE FACTS: “The unemployment rate … is not a ‘hoax.’”
Washington Post: Trump: “Right now, 92 million Americans are on the sideline outside of the workforce, and they’re not a part of our economy. It’s a silent nation of jobless Americans.” // Four Pinocchios
Washington Post: Trump: “Fifty-eight percent of your [African American] youth is unemployed.” // Four Pinocchios
CNN: “Trump also said that ‘58% of African-American youth are not employed.’” // FALSE
PolitiFact: Trump: “Youth unemployment is through the roof.” // False
NBC News: “TRUMP CLAIM: Nearly four in 10 African-American children are living in poverty, while 58 percent of African-American youth are now not employed.” // “Trump isn’t correct that 58 percent of African American youth are unemployed.”
Washington Post: Trump: “Since President Obama came into office, another 2 million Hispanics have joined the ranks of those in poverty.” // Three Pinocchios
PolitiFact: Trump: “Since President Obama came into office, another 2 million Hispanics have joined the ranks of those in poverty.” // Mostly False
Washington Post: Trump: “2 million more Latinos are in poverty today than when the President took his oath of office.” // “Trump is being misleading”
Associated Press: TRUMP: “Two million more Latinos are in poverty today than when President Obama took his oath of office less than eight years ago. Another 14 million people have left the workforce entirely.” // “THE FACTS: Trump is playing with numbers to make the economy look worse than it actually is.”
PolitiFact: “Our real unemployment is anywhere from 18 to 20 percent. Don’t believe the 5.6. Don’t believe it.” // False
Factcheck.org: the “real” unemployment rate is “anywhere from 18 to 20 percent” and “maybe even 21 percent.” // “We see no factual basis for this opinion.”
Associated Press: TRUMP, on 14 million people leaving the workforce during Obama’s presidency: “My economic plan rejects the cynicism that says our labor force will keep declining.” // THE FACTS: “It’s not cynicism that’s the problem, it’s mostly aging.”
Factcheck.org: “Trump said in June “there are no jobs” to be had.” // “Official statistics were showing 5.4 million job openings — the most in 15 years”
Vox: Trump says: “Another 14 million people have left the workforce entirely.” // FALSE
Washington Post: Donald Trump claim: “Another 14 million people have left the workforce entirely.” // “Yet another misleading figure.”
Health Care
Huffington Post: Trump: “Obamacare is a disaster.” // “It’s actually pretty OK.”
FactCheck.org: Trump said that he’d repeal the Affordable Care Act and ‘you will be able to choose your own doctor again.’” // “Trump used a popular false talking point about the Affordable Care Act.”
Associated Press: Trump: “We will repeal and replace job-killing Obamacare. It is a total disaster.” // “Job growth has been solid by historical standards since Obama’s health care overhaul was signed into law in March 2010.”
Immigration
Washington Post: Trump: “There are scores of recent migrants inside our borders charged with terrorism. For every case known to the public, there are dozens and dozens more. We must stop importing extremism through senseless immigration policies.” // Four Pinocchios
CNN: Mexico sends its criminals across the border // FALSE
National Journal: Illegal immigration was not a major campaign issue until Trump brought it up. // FALSE
Politifact: Trump says Clinton wants to “Create totally open borders.” // FALSE
Politico: “If it weren’t for me you wouldn’t even be talking about illegal immigration, Chris. You wouldn’t even be talking about it. This was not a subject on anybody’s mind until I brought it up at my announcement.” // “Politicians have been debating immigration policy for way longer than the life of the billionaire’s two-month old presidential campaign.”
Huffington Post: Trump: “We have at least 11 million [illegal immigrants in the U.S.]. Some people think it could be 31 million, it’s somewhere in between.” // “…there is virtually no evidence that the real number could be even a few million higher than 11 million.”
Factcheck.org: “Illegal immigration is costing us more than $200 billion a year just to maintain what we have.” // “We cannot find any support for Trump’s claim…”
Factcheck.org: Trump said Mexico doesn’t have a birthright citizenship policy. // “It does”
Factcheck.org: “And by the way Mexico and almost every other country anywhere in the world doesn’t have that,” Trump said, referring to birthright citizenship. // “Incorrect – Mexico does have such a policy”
Associated Press: “Our country is out of control. People are pouring through the southern border.” // “Trump’s suggestion that illegal immigration is increasing at the border is not supported…”
Vox: Trump says: “By ending catch and release on the border, we will stop the cycle of human smuggling and violence. Illegal border crossings will go down. We will stop it. It won’t be happening very much anymore. Peace will be restored.” // Baseless
NPR: Donald Trump claim: “One more child to sacrifice on the order and on the altar of open borders.” // “America does not have ‘open borders.’”
Washington Post: Trump: “We admit about 100,000 permanent immigrants from the Middle East every year.” // “Trump overstates the figure here.”
Associated Press: TRUMP, on the number of people in the U.S. illegally: “Our government has no idea. It could be 3 million, it could be 30 million. They have no idea.” // THE FACTS: “The Homeland Security Department estimates there are 11.4 million people in the United States illegally. Few in the immigration debate challenge that estimate.”
Screening Refugees
PolitiFact: “This is a war against people that are vicious, violent people, that we have no idea who they are, where they come from. We are allowing tens of thousands of them into our country now.” // Pants on Fire
FactCheck.org: FactCheck.org: “Trump said that ‘there’s no way to screen’ those refugees to determine ‘who they are or where they come from.’ // “That’s false.”
Vox: Trump says: “There’s no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from.” // FALSE
ABC News: “Claim: There is no way to screen Syrian refugees.” // False
Vox: “We’re not screening people.” // “Trump is wrong…”
NBC News: Trump wrong in saying there is no way to screen Syrian refugees // “Refugees are subject to the highest level of security checks of any visitors to the U.S., and the process historically takes up to 16-24 months.”
Associated Press: TRUMP: “My opponent has called for a radical 550 percent increase in Syrian (refugees). … She proposes this despite the fact that there’s no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from. I only want to admit individuals into our country who will support our values and love our people.” // “Trump persists in making the bogus claim that the U.S. doesn’t screen refugees.”
Washington Post: “Under the Clinton plan, you’d be admitting hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East with no system to vet them, or to prevent the radicalization of the children and their children.” // “Trump also falsely claims there is “no system to vet” refugees…”
Huffington Post: “We have no idea who they are, we have no idea where is their paperwork. They have no paperwork; they have no identification.” — Trump on Syrian refugees. // “Syrian refugees are the most heavily vetted group coming to the U.S. The process takes a year and a half to two years.”
Washington Post: “Even our own FBI director has admitted that we cannot effectively check the backgrounds of people we’re letting into America.” // “Trump overstated what FBI Director James Comey said in congressional testimony.”
PolitiFact: Germany “is crime-riddled right now” because of migration to Europe. // Mostly False
Washington Post: Trump falsely claims that U.S. lacks screening for refugees // FALSE
FactCheck.org: Trump claimed Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine “wrote a letter very recently asking for more [Syrian refugees] than even Hillary [Clinton] wants.” // FALSE
Politifact: There is “no system to vet” refugees from the Middle East. // False
Vox: “Altogether under the Clinton plan, you’d be admitting hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East with no system to prevent radicalization of the children and their children.” // “Trump is wrong here as well…”
Factcheck.org: Trump wrongly claimed that “Syrian refugees are being relocated in large numbers to New Mexico.” // False
NPR: Donald Trump claim: “…there’s no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from.” // False
NPR: “Trump wrongly says Clinton would admit refugees without screening procedures” // FALSE
Taxation
Factcheck.org: Trump said his tax plan is revenue neutral. // Nope
PolitiFact: “We’re the highest taxed nation in the world.” // FALSE
Vox: Trump says: “America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world. Reducing taxes will cause new companies and new jobs to come roaring back into our country.” // FALSE
Washington Post: Donald Trump claim: “America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world.” // “[T]he United States isn’t anywhere near the top among industrialized nations.”
Associated Press: TRUMP: “America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world.” // “THE FACTS: Trump continues to repeat this inaccuracy.”
Associated Press: TRUMP: “We are one of the highest taxed nations in the world.” // “This repeated claim by Trump is wrong.”
New York Times: “Right now, we’re the highest-taxed country in the world.” // “Not even close.”
Trade
FactCheck.org: Trump said President Obama “crippled us” with “a huge trade deficit.” // “Actually, the trade deficit has gone down under Obama.”
Washington Post: Trump: “Yesterday for the first time she said she wants to renegotiate trade agreements. First time, yesterday. Well, because of me.” // Four Pinocchios
CNN: Trump alleged that Clinton was responsible for the theft of “billions and billions of dollars in our intellectual property, and China has taken it. And it’s a crime which is continuously going on, and it’s going on right now.” // FALSE
PolitiFact: Trump said Hillary Clinton “has even deleted this record of total support (for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) from her book.” // Pants on Fire
CNN: Trump: “Our trade deficit with China soared 40% during Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of state — a disgraceful performance for which she should not be congratulated, but rather scorned.” // FALSE
Factcheck.org: Donald Trump on the trade deficit, May 5 rally in West Virginia: “Every single country in the world that does business with us beats us on trade. ” // “The U.S. doesn’t get beat by “every single country” on trade…”
Washington Post: Trump: “Hillary Clinton has also been the biggest promoter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which will ship millions more of our jobs overseas and give up congressional power to an international foreign commission.” // “Clinton, as secretary of state, supported TPP negotiations but once the trade pact with 12 Asian rim nations was completed, she announced she opposed it.”
Huffington Post: Trump: “A lot of people are sending goods over to other countries, and especially goods that can spoil like what you do. They send over to other countries, and the other country refuses to accept them, and yet we accept their goods without tax, without anything.” // FALSE
Veterans and the Military
Associated Press: TRUMP: Asked about the problem of sexual assault within the military, said, ” … the best thing we can do is set up a court system within the military. Right now, the court system practically doesn’t exist.” // THE FACTS: “The U.S. military already has an extensive justice system, one with roots in the U.S. Constitution.”
Washington Post: Trump on sexual assault in the military: “What did these geniuses expect when they put men and women together [in the military]?” // Three Pinocchios
Politifact: “I wanted to keep it private, because I don’t think it’s anybody’s business if I want to send money to the vets.” // Pants on Fire
Associated Press: TRUMP: “And right now, we are not strong. Believe me, we have a depleted military. We have the greatest people in the world in our military. But it is very sadly depleted.” // “THE FACTS: The U.S. military, by far the world’s largest and most powerful, is by no means depleted…”
Associated Press: TRUMP, on people illegally in the U.S.: “They’re treated better than our vets.” // “THE FACTS: People in the country illegally do not have the right to work, vote or receive most government benefits.”
TRUMP’S LIES ON FOREIGN POLICY
Foreign Policy, National Security and Defense
Washington Post: “Trump’s claim that ‘we’re not allowed to profile’ potential terrorists” // Four Pinocchios
PolitiFact: “Even our nuclear arsenal doesn’t work. It came out recently they have equipment that is 30 years old. They don’t know if it worked.” // False
PolitiFact: “CIA Director George told the Bush administration that the Sept 11 attacks terrorist attacks was coming, so they did have advanced notice” // FALSE
Washington Post: Trump: “We shouldn’t have destabilized — Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. Right? He was a bad guy. Really bad guy. But you know what, he did well. He killed terrorists. He did that so good.” // Four Pinocchios
Washington Post: ”Trump On Saddam Hussein: “You know what he did well?” he asked a campaign crowd in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Tuesday night. “He killed terrorists. He did that so good.” // “Donald Trump gives credit where credit isn’t due when he brands Saddam Hussein a potent foil of terrorists.”
New York Times: “Mr. Trump said the families of some Sept. 11 hijackers were allowed to leave the U.S. days before the attacks.” // “The 9/11 Commission begs to differ.”
FactCheck: Trump boasted that he “predicted Osama bin Laden.” // “Nope.”
PolitiFact: Donald Trump accuses Hillary Clinton of lying about his views on a nuclear-armed Japan. // Mostly False
PolitiFact: “They said I want Japan to … get nuclear weapons. Give me a break.” // MOSTLY FALSE
Washington Post: Trump: “A neighbor saw suspicious behavior [in San Bernardino]. Bombs on the floor and other things, but didn’t warn authorities because they said they didn’t want to be accused of racial profiling.” // “There is no evidence this was the case.”
Factcheck.org: “Trump said the mother of the San Bernardino shooter had advance knowledge of her son’s plans.” // “Officials have made no such charges or accusations.”
Politico: “The killer [In Orlando], whose name I will not use or ever say, was born in Afghan, of Afghan parents, who immigrated to the United States.” // “No gray area here: Omar Mateen was born in New York City 29 years ago.”
CNN: Trump claimed Clinton’s “support for violent regime change in Syria has thrown the country into one of the bloodiest civil wars anyone has ever seen.” // FALSE
Washington Post: “They [Muslims] knew the people in San Bernardino were bad. But you know what? They didn’t turn them in.” // “There is no evidence this was the case.”
Huffington Post: Trump: “Thousands and thousands of people are infiltrating our country.” // “There is no evidence that ‘thousands and thousands’ of terrorists are infiltrating our country.”