78 Times Trump Lied at the First Presidential Debate
1. Donald Trump: “You look at what China is doing to our country in terms of making our product. They’re devaluing their currency, and there’s nobody in our government to fight them.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
2. Donald Trump: “So Ford is leaving. You see that, their small car division leaving. Thousands of jobs leaving Michigan, leaving Ohio. They’re all leaving.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
3. Donald Trump: “As far as child care is concerned and so many other things, I think Hillary and I agree on that.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
4. Donald Trump: “Well, for one thing — and before we start on that — my father gave me a very small loan in 1975, and I built it into a company that’s worth many, many billions of dollars, with some of the greatest assets in the world, and I say that only because that’s the kind of thinking that our country needs.” [First presidential debate,9/26/16]
5. Donald Trump: “Let me give you the example of Mexico. They have a VAT tax. We’re on a different system. When we sell into Mexico, there’s a tax. When they sell in — automatic, 16 percent, approximately. When they sell into us, there’s no tax. It’s a defective agreement.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
6. Donald Trump: “It’s very important to me. But in all fairness to Secretary Clinton, when she started talking about this, it was really very recently. She’s been doing this for 30 years. And why hasn’t she made the agreements better? The NAFTA agreement is defective.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
7. Hillary Clinton: “Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it’s real.” Donald Trump: “I did not. I did not. I do not say that.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
8. Donald Trump: “Our energy policies are disaster. Our country is losing so much in terms of energy, in terms of paying off our debt.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
9. Donald Trump: “I will bring — excuse me. I will bring back jobs. You can’t bring back jobs.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
10. Hillary Clinton: “I know how to really work to get new jobs and to get exports that helped to create more new jobs.” […] Donald Trump: “But you haven’t done it in 30 years or 26 years or any number you want to...” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
11. Donald Trump: “Your husband signed NAFTA, which was one of the worst thingsthat ever happened to the manufacturing industry.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
12. Donald Trump: “And now you want to approve Trans-Pacific Partnership.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
13. Donald Trump: “You were totally in favor of [TPP]. Then you heard what I was saying, how bad it is, and you said, I can’t win that debate.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
15. Donald Trump: “But regulations, you are going to regulate these businesses out of existence.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
16. Donald Trump: “I’m going to cut taxes big league, and you’re going to raise taxes big league, end of story.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
17. Donald Trump: “No wonder you’ve been fighting — no wonder you’ve been fighting ISIS your entire adult life.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
18. Donald Trump: “I’m really calling for major jobs, because the wealthy are going create tremendous jobs.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
19. Donald Trump: “The Fed is doing political — by keeping the interest rates at this level….the Fed is not doing their job. The Fed is being more political than Secretary Clinton.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
20. Donald Trump: “I don’t mind releasing — I’m under a routine audit. And it’ll be released. And — as soon as the audit’s finished, it will be released.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
21. Donald Trump: “But you will learn more about Donald Trump by going down to the federal elections, where I filed a 104-page essentially financial statement of sorts, the forms that they have.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
22. Donald Trump: “And in a way, I should be complaining. I’m not even complaining. I don’t mind it. It’s almost become a way of life. I get audited by the IRS. But other people don’t.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
23. Donald Trump: “I will release my tax returns. And that’s against — my lawyers, they say, ‘Don’t do it.’ I will tell you this. No — in fact, watching shows, they’re reading the papers. Almost every lawyer says, you don’t release your returns until the audit’s complete.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
24. Donald Trump: “That was more than a mistake. That was done purposely. OK? That was not a mistake. That was done purposely.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
25. Donald Trump: “As far as my tax returns, you don’t learn that much from tax returns. That I can tell you. You learn a lot from financial disclosure.” [First presidential debate,9/26/16]
26. Donald Trump: “And the $650 isn’t even on that. But it’s not $650. It’s much less than that.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
27. Hillary Clinton: “You even at one time suggested that you would try to negotiate down the national debt of the United States.” Donald Trump: “Wrong. Wrong.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
28. Donald Trump: “But on occasion, four times, we used certain laws that are there. And when Secretary Clinton talks about people that didn’t get paid, first of all, they did get paid a lot, but taken advantage of the laws of the nation.” [First presidential debate,9/26/16]
29. Donald Trump: “And when Secretary Clinton talks about people that didn’t get paid, first of all, they did get paid a lot, but taken advantage of the laws of the nation.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
30. Donald Trump: “We have a situation where we have our inner cities, African-Americans, Hispanics are living in hell because it’s so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
31. Donald Trump: “Now, whether or not in a place like Chicago you do stop and frisk, which worked very well, Mayor Giuliani is here, worked very well in New York.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
32. Donald Trump: “We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.” [First presidential debate,9/26/16]
33. Lester Holt: “Stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York, because it largely singled out black and Hispanic young men.” Donald Trump: “No, you’re wrong.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
34. Donald Trump: “And when it comes to stop-and-frisk, you know, you’re talking abouttakes guns away. Well, I’m talking about taking guns away from gangs and people that use them.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
35. Donald Trump: “I think maybe there’s a political reason why you can’t say it, but I really don’t believe — in New York City, stop-and-frisk, we had 2,200 murders, and stop-and-frisk brought it down to 500 murders.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
36. Hillary Clinton: “Well, it’s also fair to say, if we’re going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor, crime has continued to drop, including murders. So there is...” Donald Trump: “No, you’re wrong. You’re wrong.” Hillary Clinton: “No, I’m not.” Donald Trump: “Murders are up. All right. You check it.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
37. Donald Trump: “And her campaign manager, Patti Doyle, went to — during the campaign, her campaign against President Obama, fought very hard [on the birther issue]. And you can go look it up, and you can check it out.” [First presidential debate,9/26/16]
38. Donald Trump: “And if you look at CNN this past week, Patti Solis Doyle was on Wolf Blitzer saying that this happened.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
39. Donald Trump: “Blumenthal sent McClatchy, highly respected reporter at McClatchy, to Kenya to find out about it.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
40. Donald Trump: “She failed to get the birth certificate. When I got involved, I didn’t fail. I got him to give the birth certificate.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
41. Donald Trump: “When you talk about healing, I think that I’ve developed very, very good relationships over the last little while with the African-American community.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
42. Donald Trump: “You were after him, you were trying to — you even sent out or your campaign sent out pictures of him in a certain garb, very famous pictures. I don’t think you can deny that.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
43. Donald Trump: “I went into my father’s company, had a real estate company in Brooklyn and Queens, and we, along with many, many other companies throughout the country — it was a federal lawsuit — were sued.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
44. Donald Trump: “I settled that lawsuit with no admission of guilt, but that was a lawsuit brought against many real estate firms, and it’s just one of those things.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
45. Donald Trump: “In Palm Beach, Florida, tough community, a brilliant community, a wealthy community, probably the wealthiest community there is in the world, I opened a club, and really got great credit for it.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
46. Hillary Clinton: “I know Donald’s very praiseworthy of Vladimir Putin, but Putin is playing a really...” Donald Trump: “Wrong.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
47. Donald Trump: “In addition, I was just endorsed by ICE. They’ve never endorsed anybody before on immigration. I was just endorsed by ICE.” [First presidential debate,9/26/16]
48. Donald Trump: “I was just recently endorsed — 16,500 Border Patrol agents.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
49. Donald Trump: “I don’t think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She’s saying Russia, Russia, Russia, but I don’t — maybe it was.” [First presidential debate,9/26/16]
50. Donald Trump: “President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out — what, they shouldn’t have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
51. Donald Trump: “But they wouldn’t have even been formed if they left some troops behind, like 10,000 or maybe something more than that. And then you wouldn’t have had them.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
52. Donald Trump: “I said it to you once, had we taken the oil — and we should have taken the oil — ISIS would not have been able to form either, because the oil was their primary source of income.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
53. Donald Trump: “And now they [ISIS] have the oil all over the place, including the oil —a lot of the oil in Libya, which was another one of her disasters.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
54. Hillary Clinton: “Donald supported the invasion of Iraq.” Donald Trump: “Wrong.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
55. Donald Trump: “I think we should get — because we pay approximately 73 percent of the cost of NATO.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
56. Donald Trump: “I’m sure I’m not going to get credit for it — but that was largelybecause of what I was saying and my criticism of NATO.” [First presidential debate,9/26/16]
57. Donald Trump: “I think we have to get NATO to go into the Middle East with us, in addition to surrounding nations, and we have to knock the hell out of ISIS, and we have to do it fast, when ISIS formed in this vacuum created by Barack Obama and Secretary Clinton.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
58. Donald Trump: “And believe me, you were the ones that took out the troops. Not only that, you named the day.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
59. Donald Trump: “I did not support the war in Iraq.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
60. Donald Trump: “That is a mainstream media nonsense put out by her, because she — frankly, I think the best person in her campaign is mainstream media.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
61. Donald Trump: “I was against the war in Iraq.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
62. Donald Trump: “When I did an interview with Howard Stern, very lightly, first time anyone’s asked me that, I said, very lightly, I don’t know, maybe, who knows? Essentially.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
63. Donald Trump: “I was against the war.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
64. Donald Trump: “And then they did an article in a major magazine, shortly after the war started. I think in ’04. But they did an article which had me totally against the war in Iraq.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
65. Donald Trump: “Just to go down the list, we defend Japan, we defend Germany, we defend South Korea, we defend Saudi Arabia, we defend countries. They do not pay us.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
66. Donald Trump: “We can’t defend Japan, a behemoth, selling us cars by the million...” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
67. Donald Trump: “Russia has been expanding their — they have a much newer [nuclear] capability than we do. We have not been updating from the new standpoint.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
68. Donald Trump: “I was seeing B-52s, they’re old enough that your father, your grandfather could be flying them. We are not — we are not keeping up with other countries.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
69. Donald Trump: “China should go into North Korea. China is totally powerful as it relates to North Korea.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
70. Donald Trump: “Iran is one of their biggest trading partners. Iran has power over North Korea.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
71. Donald Trump: “It was actually $1.7 billion in cash, obviously, I guess for the hostages.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
72. Donald Trump: “The deal with Iran will lead to nuclear problems.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
73. Donald Trump: “I will tell you that Hillary will tell you to go to her website and read all about how to defeat ISIS, which she could have defeated by never having it, you know, get going in the first place.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
74. Donald Trump: “She doesn’t have the look. She doesn’t have the stamina. I said she doesn’t have the stamina.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
75. Donald Trump: “Whether it’s the Iran deal that you’re so in love with, where we gave them $150 billion back, whether it’s the Iran deal, whether it’s anything you can — name — you almost can’t name a good deal.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
76. Hillary Clinton: “But this is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs, and someone who has said pregnancy is an inconvenience to employers, who has said...” Donald Trump: “I never said that.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
77. Hillary Clinton: “[Donald Trump said that] women don’t deserve equal pay unless they do as good a job as men.” Donald Trump: “I didn’t say that.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
78. Donald Trump: “We are a nation that is seriously troubled. We’re losing our jobs.” [First presidential debate, 9/26/16]
