Saturday, October 8, 2016

[Special] NPR: Fact Check - Trump And Clinton Debate For The First Time

By NPR Staff:

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 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.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump's father came to his rescue repeatedly with multiple loans.

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DONALD TRUMP

I did not -- I do not say that.
Actually, Trump has called climate change a "hoax" on several occasions. He said on Meet the Press that he was joking about China's role. As PolitiFact noted: "On Dec. 30, 2015, Trump told the crowd at a rally in Hilton Head, S.C., 'Obama's talking about all of this with the global warming and … a lot of it's a hoax. It's a hoax. I mean, it's a moneymaking industry, OK? It's a hoax, a lot of it.' "

The original source for the “hoax” quote was a tweet Trump sent in 2012. He said the concept of global warming was created by the Chinese to make U.S. manufacturing noncompetitive.

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DONALD TRUMP

No wonder you’ve been fighting ISIS your entire adult life.
Clinton has not been fighting ISIS her entire adult life as it has existed in its present form only since 2013-2014.
 Hillary Clinton was born in 1947. The roots of ISIS arguably go back to the late 1990s, but the rise of ISIS in its present form followed the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011. Either way, the terrorist group was long after Clinton became an adult.

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