We found a mountain of false and misleading statements in the second meeting of the presidential nominees.
FactChecking the Second Presidential Debate
Month: October 2016
Obama’s Numbers October 2016 Update
Our last update on statistical indicators of the Obama presidency before his successor is elected.
Oct. 8: Trump Foundation, Trump Lawsuits, VA
Trump Muddies Immigrant Voting Issue
Donald Trump mangled the facts when he claimed that the Obama administration is “letting people pour into the country so they can go and vote.”
Video: FactChecking Clinton Stump Speech
This week, CNN’s Jake Tapper, working with FactCheck.org, highlights four claims Hillary Clinton made in a speech in Hampton, Illinois, on Sept. 5.
Fired Over VA Wait Times
Speaking at a CNN town hall about the military, President Barack Obama suggested that his administration “fired a whole bunch of people who were in charge of some of these facilities” involved in the wait-times scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs. That’s not the case.
Video: FactChecking the Veep Debate
FlackCheck.org, our sister website for political literacy, looks at a sampling of the claims that we flagged during the only vice presidential debate of the general election.
FactChecking the VP Debate
The vice presidential candidates got their one chance to debate, and it was a fact-checking bonanza.
To Be or Not to Be a Wolf
Rep. Debbie Dingell claimed “the science is clear” that red wolves are not “hybrids” between coyotes and gray wolves. But the science is not clear.
Spinning Trump’s Taxes
Donald Trump’s top surrogates took to the Sunday talk shows to put the best spin on a New York Times story about the GOP presidential nominee reporting a loss of $916 million on his personal income taxes in 1995.