Fact-checking the second presidential debate
Trump off-base on whether Michelle Obama criticized Clinton
Clinton: Trump plan gives more to rich than Bush tax cuts
Clinton claim that US is energy independent goes too far
Comments are ambiguous
Says "I’ve been proven right" about "Hillary Clinton's radical call for open borders, meaning anyone in the world can enter the United States without any limit at all."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
Math checks out
Says Donald Trump’s tax plan gives the wealthy and corporations "more than the Bush tax cuts by at least a factor of two."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
On track, but not there yet
"We are now, for the first time ever, energy independent."
Tripped up trying to discredit Patrick Murphy
Says Patrick Murphy wrongly conveyed Rubio's stance on abortion for women infected by Zika.
— PolitiFact Florida on Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
The ad was from a pro-Trump super PAC
"I've gotten to see the commercials that they did on you. And I've gotten to see some of the most vicious commercials I've ever seen of Michelle Obama talking about you, Hillary."
A Newsweek journalist wrote that, not Blumenthal
Says Sidney Blumenthal wrote that the Benghazi attack was "almost certainly preventable. Clinton was in charge of the State Department, and it failed to protect U.S. personnel and an American consulate in Libya."
He failed to sweat the details
Says "Hillary Clinton set aside environmental and labor rules to help a South Korean company with a record of violating workers’ rights set up what amounts to a sweatshop in Haiti."
Murphy does, although the distinction is vague
Says Patrick Murphy "supports a gun ban on commonly owned semi-automatic firearms used for hunting, recreational shooting and self defense."
A significant mistake
Says "Rob Portman voted for the bipartisan bill to affirm climate change is real, humans significantly contribute to it and it needs to be addressed."
— PolitiFact Ohio on Monday, October 10th, 2016
On charges of abuse, she was pretty quiet.
Says Hillary Clinton "viciously" attacked women abused by Bill Clinton.
— PolitiFact National on Monday, October 10th, 2016
Trump wants NATO to change
Donald Trump says "that NATO is obsolete and that we need to get rid of NATO..."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, October 10th, 2016
Gone but not forgotten
"I was gone" when there was a red line against Syria.
The union did, not the federal agency
"ICE just endorsed me."
A spike following a quarter century of decline
"We have an increase in murder within our cities, the biggest in 45 years."
There's laughter, but not at the girl
Says after Hillary Clinton helped a man accused of raping a 12-year-old, "she's seen laughing on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped."
Straight to video
"You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists' sites and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters."
He literally asked people to 'check out sex tape'
Says a tweet he sent out "wasn’t saying, ‘check out a sex tape.’ It was just ‘take a look at" the background of Alicia Machado.
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, October 9th, 2016