Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has unleashed a torrent of falsehoods during his campaign, spanning a wide range of issues. His disregard for the facts is again on display during the first presidential debate at Hofstra University, and journalists and media outlets are calling him out on Twitter:
Trump On Ford Leaving The U.S.
Trump's Claim He Received A “Small Loan” From His Father
Trump Denied Calling Climate Change A “Hoax”
Trump's Refusal To Release His Tax Returns
Trump's Advocacy For Stop-And-Frisk
Trump's Years-Long Promotion Of Birther Conspiracies
Trump On Ford Leaving The U.S.
Right out of the gate: Trump claim on Ford is false, as @maggieNYT & I detailed yesterday > https://t.co/Ka5pUNzqds
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) September 27, 2016
Fact Check: What Trump just said about Ford’s small car division leaving is not exactly true. https://t.co/TjIY6YpEbK #DebateNight
— WIRED (@WIRED) September 27, 2016
Ford CEO: Donald Trump is wrong about Mexico https://t.co/EhBq2duyIa #debatenight pic.twitter.com/WbjdoakgLd
— Kendall Taggart (@KendallTTaggart) September 27, 2016
Trump's Claim He Received A “Small Loan” From His Father
Fact check: That loan from Trump's father has been estimated in the millions of dollars. https://t.co/79eskydFes
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) September 27, 2016
Trump's first lie of the night: his “small loan” from dad was in the millions.
— Bret Stephens (@StephensWSJ) September 27, 2016
FACT CHECK: Fred Trump's “small loan” to Donald was millions of dollars. #debates
— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) September 27, 2016
“a smallloan” from Dad: false https://t.co/YogHJQmSMg
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) September 27, 2016
Trump Denied Calling Climate Change A “Hoax”
Yes, Trump did call climate change a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. You did not imagine that. https://t.co/sIfeFZ0t1m
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) September 27, 2016
Yes, Trump called climate change a hoax: https://t.co/yvt8X8jTqE
— andrew kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) September 27, 2016
Here is one instance of Trump calling global warming a hoax: https://t.co/CtLue866jA
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) September 27, 2016
“Yes, Trump did call climate change a hoax”:https://t.co/xtOISWD4Gt
He just falsely claimed otherwise.— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 27, 2016
“Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax, perpetrated by the Chinese...” –Hillary
“I did not say that.” –Trump #debatenight pic.twitter.com/LH4ahZZ79D— Fusion (@Fusion) September 27, 2016
Trump's Refusal To Release His Tax Returns
LIVE FACT-CHECK: Trump is wrong about financial disclosures being better than tax returns. https://t.co/n5nVmdTM83 pic.twitter.com/0pnDJgP7r1
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) September 27, 2016
Trump says he can't release his tax returns because he's being audited. So we asked the IRS ---> https://t.co/iI0xFgR5Pt #debatenight
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) September 27, 2016
Trump implies there isn’t much to learn from his tax returns. Tax experts disagree. https://t.co/bIypJLQnRI #debatenight
— FactCheck.org (@factcheckdotorg) September 27, 2016
Trump just said he cannot release his tax returns while the IRS is auditing him. That’s a lie. #debatenight pic.twitter.com/S9W29mu0rv
— Slate (@Slate) September 27, 2016
Fact Check: Trump's 4 Pinocchio claim that 'there's nothing to learn' from his tax returns https://t.co/8H9eLLMX0o
— Michelle Ye Hee Lee (@myhlee) September 27, 2016
Trump's Advocacy For Stop-And-Frisk
FACT CHECK: Crime rates in NYC fell dramatically AFTER Stop and Frisk was ruled unconstitutional in NY.
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) September 27, 2016
Holt points out that stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in NY Trump says it's not true - but it was
— USA TODAY 2016 (@usatoday2016) September 27, 2016
No Trump, stop & frisk did not make NY safer #debatenight https://t.co/WTa9Dt2ou1 pic.twitter.com/uBV5nFcOLy
— Franchesca Ramsey (@chescaleigh) September 27, 2016
Trump obviously missed this fact check. https://t.co/EQ504Zom1I
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) September 27, 2016
Lester Holt is correct. Stop and frisk was deemed unconstitutional: https://t.co/vquIweR52K #debatenight
— Mic (@mic) September 27, 2016
Trump's 3 Pinocchio claim attributing the 20-year New York City crime decline to stop and frisk policies https://t.co/TDayWSjhS9
— Michelle Ye Hee Lee (@myhlee) September 27, 2016
Trump's Years-Long Promotion Of Birther Conspiracies
Fact Check: Trump's debunked claim that Clinton 'started the birther controversy' https://t.co/9hMNZolMPT
— Michelle Ye Hee Lee (@myhlee) September 27, 2016
Fact Checker: Trump’s ridiculous claim that Clinton started the birther movement https://t.co/aNuwAThB7P More: https://t.co/cIuGup5JjS
— Post Graphics (@PostGraphics) September 27, 2016
LIVE FACT-CHECK: Trump's suggestion that Hillary Clinton and her campaign started the birther movement is False. https://t.co/cVkYnvjOTw pic.twitter.com/9xrkpVN1D6
— PolitiFact Live (@politifactlive) September 27, 2016
We checked it out. This is a false claim https://t.co/4D32MtyROE
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) September 27, 2016
Trump's Iraq War Support
Fact Check: Donald Trump supported the Iraq War: https://t.co/5lExDRs01a
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 27, 2016
Clinton: “Donald supported the invasion of Iraq.”
Trump: “Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.”
(Clinton is right: https://t.co/Dc6xAy6QV9)— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) September 27, 2016
Clinton: “I hope the fact checkers are turning up the volume.” Says that Trump supported war in Iraq (he did.) https://t.co/sy6ipCNW4A
— USA TODAY 2016 (@usatoday2016) September 27, 2016
Donald Trump says “wrong” when Hillary Clinton says he supported the Iraq War. But he did so publicly, https://t.co/eeCwMjR0yq pic.twitter.com/c24s535qsF
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) September 27, 2016
Lester Holt fact-checks Trump on supporting the war in Iraq. Lester Holt is right.
— CJR (@CJR) September 27, 2016
Trump getting fired up over Holt saying he showed support for the War in Iraq.
He did.— Candace Smith (@CandaceSmith_) September 27, 2016
Trump's Remarks About Women
Trump in 2004: Pregnancy is an “inconvenience” to employers. https://t.co/len2LxrFPy #debatenight
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) September 27, 2016
Donald Trump is lying that he never said pregnancy was an inconvenience to employers. https://t.co/HaIojzfT1E
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 27, 2016
Clinton points out Trump has said pregnant women are inconvenient for business. Says he never said that.
He did. https://t.co/4Fzxq63zfN— Prachi Gupta (@prachigu) September 27, 2016
PolitiFact says Trump did call pregnant women “inconvenient” for employers, as Clinton said:https://t.co/npYmA23lO5
— Sabrina Eaton (@sabrinaeaton) September 27, 2016