10.
“But she wants to go to single payer, which means the government basically rules everything. Hillary Clinton has been after this for years.” — Trump
It has been widely documented that Clinton isn’t a champion for single-payer health care, a government-run system which was embraced by her more liberal Democratic primary opponent, Bernie Sanders.
Instead of single-payer, Clinton supports the “public option,” where a government plan competes with private health insurance companies already in the market.
11.
“Look at what she did in Libya with Qaddafi. Qaddafi is out. It's a mess. And by the way, ISIS has a good chunk of their oil.” – Trump
The Islamic State has taken control of oil fields in Syria and Iraq, but has not done so in Libya. After the fall of Qaddafi in 2011, oil production in Libya cratered from more than 1 million barrels per day to around 200,000 barrels per day. Recently, Libya has begun to increase production out of an oil terminal in Zuwetina. But that oil is under the control of a Libyan militia, not the Islamic State.
12.
"It’s Iran who she made strong and Kerry and Obama made into a powerful nation and a very rich nation, very quickly, very, very quickly,” – Trump
While the nuclear agreement with Iran did free up to $150 billion in frozen funds and eliminated some sanctions, allowing Tehran greater access to global capital markets, those measures are not enough to make Iran a rich nation.
According to the World Bank, Iran’s GDP per capita was just $5,500 in 2014, similar to that of Namibia, Angola and Jamaica. In comparison, U.S. GDP per capita was more than $50,000 that year. The nuclear deal did not suddenly make Iran rich.
13.
“ICE just endorsed me.” — Trump
No, Donald Trump was not endorsed by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. He was
endorsed in September by a union of ICE employees, but that’s not the same as an entire federal agency
backing a candidate.
Trump's misleading claims
1.
“Russia is killing ISIS and Iran is killing ISIS and they have lined up because of weak foreign policy.” – Trump
“Russia hasn't paid any attention to ISIS. They are interested in keeping Assad in power.” – Clinton
ISIS members have likely died due to Russian air strikes, but there is no evidence to support the claim that Russia’s air campaign in Syria is intended to attack the group as a whole. According to multiple public sources, only a small percentage of Russian air strikes have struck the terrorist group. The vast majority have been against armed groups trying to topple Bashar Assad. The Institute for the Study of War, a nonpartisan research group in Washington,
has compiled dozens of maps — updated in June — that “show the world that Russia's claims of striking 'terrorists' were clearly not accurate as they repeatedly attacked mainstream opposition groups, particularly those working with the West.”
2.
“[Clinton] and Obama whether you like it or not, the way they got out of Iraq, the vacuum they left, that's why ISIS formed in the first place. [ISIS] started from the little area and now they are in 32 different nations. Congratulations. Great job.” — Trump
The Islamic State has attracted sympathizers across the globe, mostly through social media. But a report by the
nonpartisan Congressional Research Service in late June concluded that in addition to Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State only has “affiliates in several other countries,” citing armed groups in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Yemen that have sworn
allegiance to the ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi.
3.
“These are radical Islamic terrorists and [Hillary Clinton] won't even mention the word.” — Trump
In an interview on NBC in June, Hillary Clinton
broke with President Obama by using the term “radical Islamism.” She said, "And to me, radical jihadism, radical Islamism, I think they mean the same thing. I'm
happy to say either, but that's not the point."
4.
“Last year, we had an almost $800 billion trade deficit” — Trump
Trump is referring here to the U.S. trade deficit in goods. But the U.S. also imports and exports services. Combined, the U.S. trade deficit was
$500 billion in 2015.
5.
“[Obamacare is] very bad, very bad health insurance, far too expensive, and not only expensive for the person that has it, unbelievably expensive for our country. It’s going to be one of the biggest line items very shortly.” -- Trump, referring to Obamacare
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has projected that the parts of Obamacare that expand health coverage will cost the federal government
more than $1 trillion over the next decade. But that’s not the whole story because other pieces of the law offset the costs of insuring people. CBO has estimated that repealing the health law would actually be more costly to the federal government than keeping it. Scrapping the law would add
$137 billion to the deficit over 10 years.
6.
“I’ll have more than $100 million invested [in my campaign]. [I’m] Pretty much self-funding mine.” — Trump
That’s wrong.
As FEC filings show, self-funding accounts for a mere 33 percent of Trump’s overall campaign funds. Further, his campaign has spent at least $8.2 million with Trump-owned companies, as a
September 22 piece published by POLITICO revealed.