Donald Trump falsely claimed that “John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, was quoted in WikiLeaks as saying, illegal immigrants could vote as long as they have their driver’s license.” Podesta said no such thing.
In the final presidential debate, Hillary Clinton claimed that her proposals would “not add a penny to the debt.” But a nonpartisan budget watchdog group estimates that what she has detailed thus far would add $200 billion to the debt over 10 years.
In the final debate in Las Vegas, we found the deck was still stacked against the facts.
At this stage of the campaign, we often hear similar claims repeated over and over in stump speeches.
Hillary Clinton wrongly said that “back in the Great Recession … Donald Trump said rescuing the auto industry didn’t really matter very much. He said … ‘Let it go.’ ” He supported the bailout in 2008. The “let it go” quote is from 2015, and taken out of context.
Donald Trump cited apparent excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s past closed-door speeches, contained in emails leaked by WikiLeaks, but he twisted those excerpts in some cases.
We found a mountain of false and misleading statements in the second meeting of the presidential nominees.
The vice presidential candidates got their one chance to debate, and it was a fact-checking bonanza.
Part two of our series checking the accuracy of claims made by the presidential candidates in their daily stump speeches.
Several claims from the first presidential debate are highlighted in this video from FlackCheck.org, our sister site for political literacy.