Fact Checks of the Second Presidential Debate
Reporters for The New York Times fact-checked the statements made by Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump during Sunday’s presidential debate. Here’s our how we analyzed it live, plus our highlights and emails with William Weld, the Libertarian vice-presidential nominee.
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Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump says Mrs. Clinton wants “amnesty for everybody, come on in, come on over.”
Hillary Clinton
Democratic Candidate
Mrs. Clinton said that she had helped eight million children obtain health coverage, Sept. 11 responders receive medical care and children get safer medicines.
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump said Mrs. Clinton ignored 600 requests for increased security from J. Christopher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya, and communicated only with Sidney Blumenthal.
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump accused Mrs. Clinton of being there for President Obama’s “line in the sand” in Syria. She said she wasn’t.
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump, referring to the effect of NAFTA and other free-trade agreements, said, “We lost our jobs.”
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump said that the United States signed a “peace treaty” to bring an end to the civil war in Syria.
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump said Syria, Russia and Iran are fighting the Islamic State.
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump admitted that he used a $916 million loss declared on his 1995 tax returns to avoid paying federal income taxes. But he refused to say how many years he paid no income tax and simultaneously claimed to have paid a “tremendous” amount of taxes.
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump said we have hundreds of thousands of people pouring into the United States from places like Syria, and we have no idea who they are.
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump said that growth is “down to 1 percent” and that taxes in the United States are the “highest in the world.”
Hillary Clinton
Democratic Candidate
“Since the Great Recession the gains have all gone to the top.”
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump said “maybe there is no hacking,” in response to Mrs. Clinton’s claim that Russians are engaged in an unprecedented effort to influence the election — on Mr. Trump’s behalf.
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump said that Mrs. Clinton “wants to go to a single-payer plan” like the health care system in Canada.
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump said “many people saw” bombs all over the apartment of a couple who committed the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif.
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump said he would reduce the tax rate on business income to 15 percent.
Hillary Clinton
Democratic Candidate
Mrs. Clinton said Mr. Trump supported the Iraq war before it began.
Hillary Clinton
Democratic Candidate
Mrs. Clinton praised many features of the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump said Mrs. Clinton has never used the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism.”
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump said that a Clinton associate pushed the “birther” notion against Obama in 2008.
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump said that Bill Clinton was abusive to women.
Hillary Clinton
Democratic Candidate
Mrs. Clinton said there was no evidence her email has been hacked by a foreign power.
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Former President Bill Clinton was impeached, lost his law license and paid an $850,000 fine to Paula Jones.
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump accused Mrs. Clinton of laughing about getting a man acquitted of raping a 12-year-old girl.
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
When Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump was asked whether he has kissed women or groped women without consent, as he claimed on a recently released video, Mr. Trump said no, he had not.
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Trump said that Obamacare is leading to insurance rate increases that are “astronomical.”
Donald J. Trump
Republican Candidate
Mr. Pussy Grabber Trump said that last year, the United States had a trade deficit of $800 billion.
