Journalists Are Calling Out Trump's Lies At The Final Presidential Debate
Written by Media Matters Staff
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign has been built on a series of outrageous falsehoods, spanning a wide range of issues. At tonight's final presidential debate in Las Vegas, NV, Trump's penchant for lying is again on display. Moderator Chris Wallace has indicated he has no plans to fact-check the candidates, but journalists are calling Trump out on Twitter.
Trump Claims Clinton Wants “Open Borders”
Trump Lies About His Comments On Nuclear Weapons
Trump Says Clinton Will “Double” Taxes (She Won't)
Trump Lies About $6 Billion Going Missing From Clinton's State Department
Trump Pretends He Didn't Belittle His Accusers As Unattractive (He Did, Repeatedly)
Trump's Makes Outlandish Claims About Voter Fraud
Trump Claims Clinton Wants “Open Borders”
Trump says “she wants to have open borders.” That's false: https://t.co/Qg8Kyf4tI5 #debatenight
— FactCheck.org (@factcheckdotorg) October 20, 2016
Trump hits Clinton on support for “open borders,” which he supported in 2013 https://t.co/YLuHso1ugf
— Luke Brinker (@LukeBrinker) October 20, 2016
LIVE FACT-CHECK: Trump continues to mislead with talk that Clinton wants open borders. https://t.co/zIWORBOeT7 pic.twitter.com/QyvNDw4Lmb
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) October 20, 2016
The ‘open borders’ Wikileaks line in full context. https://t.co/zIWORBOeT7 pic.twitter.com/Qjva69OvS3
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) October 20, 2016
Our WikiLeaks story & what Clinton said about “open borders.” She was talking about trade not people: https://t.co/vTz9HXCuUP #debatenight
— FactCheck.org (@factcheckdotorg) October 20, 2016
Clinton is right, btw -- the “open borders” remark was about energy trading. pic.twitter.com/kC2GgFIhRw
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) October 20, 2016
Trump Lies About His Comments On Nuclear Weapons
LIVE FACT-CHECK: Clinton is right, Trump encouraged Japan to get a nuclear weapon. https://t.co/jJvg3Rqf88 pic.twitter.com/s3MMCYdehN
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) October 20, 2016
Again, here is Trump on nuclear proliferation. On Breitbart, no less.https://t.co/uPtbzALGHo
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) October 20, 2016
Trump claims he didn't say other nations should get nukes. “You're not going to find a quote from me.”
Here it is: https://t.co/Rgmn5BcuUz
— Pat Garofalo (@Pat_Garofalo) October 20, 2016
This is where the moderator should fact-check. Trump TOLD Chris Wallace in interview that maybe Japan would be better off with nukes https://t.co/P4WMz8fUHV
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) October 20, 2016
Here are the quotes Trump just said you will never find: https://t.co/Lrr1FwHYT6 “It could mean nuclear.”
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) October 20, 2016
“She has been proven to be a liar.” Trump is lying about whether he said saudis japan etc have nukes.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October 20, 2016
Trump Says Clinton Will “Double” Taxes (She Won't)
LIVE FACT-CHECK: Trump said Clinton would double taxes for Americans. False. https://t.co/0AWh6E2MmU pic.twitter.com/cMac8IBRw2
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) October 20, 2016
Trump saying that Hillary will DOUBLE your taxes is the biggest debate lie yet. Bottom 99% would be almost unchanged. pic.twitter.com/Nlk2ZYcrcE
— Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) October 20, 2016
HRC's tax plan will not double anyone's taxes unless they are very wealthy and pay very little in taxes.
— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) October 20, 2016
HRC's plan is not going to double anyone's taxes.
— Ray Locker (@rlocker12) October 20, 2016
Trump says Clinton plan is “going to double your taxes.”
Fact Check: FALSE.
Tax Policy Center: “Nearly all” of Clinton tax hikes on top 1%.— Edward Mejia Davis (@TeddyDavisCNN) October 20, 2016
Trump Lies About $6 Billion Going Missing From Clinton's State Department
Trump said the State Department lost $6 billion under Clinton. That would be a lie: https://t.co/GoLUcU6fBI
— Pat Garofalo (@Pat_Garofalo) October 20, 2016
It is false that $6 billion went missing at State. The inspector general just said that the documentation of the contracts was missing.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 20, 2016
The inspector general who did the investigation said flatly that $6 billion was not missing from the State Department.
— Jonathan M. Katz (@KatzOnEarth) October 20, 2016
Trump’s false claim that Clinton ‘lost’ $6 billion at the State Department https://t.co/ws6IqxWPUB by @GlennKesslerWP
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) October 20, 2016
Trump Pretends He Didn't Belittle His Accusers As Unattractive (He Did, Repeatedly)
Here is Trump talking about the unattractiveness of one of his accusers five days ago in North Carolina, which he just denied ever doing: pic.twitter.com/lKMu4WtMPR
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) October 20, 2016
Trump absolutely did say he couldn't have assaulted those women bc they were unattractive. Come on. We've all seen the clips.
— Jonathan Merritt (@JonathanMerritt) October 20, 2016
Trump denies he said his accusers were too unattractive to assault. “I did not say that.”
He did: https://t.co/8nAiwhK3Tl
— Pat Garofalo (@Pat_Garofalo) October 20, 2016
Fact-check: Trump did, in fact, insult the looks of the women who accused him of sexual assault. https://t.co/KKjl9eUDbS
— Ben Adler (@badler) October 20, 2016
Trump now lying, brazenly, by saying he didn't make the women's looks an issue.
— Henry J. Gomez (@HenryJGomez) October 20, 2016
Trump's Makes Outlandish Claims About Voter Fraud
Fact check on voter fraud—It's not that widespread. One study found 31 incidents out of 1B votes from 2000 to 2014.: https://t.co/oTG9KJ4Z9u
— Alexandra Jaffe (@ajjaffe) October 20, 2016
We gave two Four Pinocchio ratings today to Trump's allegations of widespread voter fraud https://t.co/3fleJZ7bZR
— Michelle Ye Hee Lee (@myhlee) October 20, 2016
Trump now citing widespread voter fraud, which has never been proven and even his campaign manager has said is not true.
— USA TODAY 2016 (@usatoday2016) October 20, 2016
State and nat'l GOP officials have said, repeatedly, no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the U.S. #factcheck #debatenight
— Molly O'Toole (@mollymotoole) October 20, 2016