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 was a prominent feature of the first presidential debate. Trump is heavily lying again during the second presidential debate, and journalists and media outlets are calling him out on Twitter:
Trump Claims Clinton's Campaign Started The Birther Movement
Trump Claims U.S. Is The Highest Taxed Nation
Trump Claims Clinton's Campaign Started The Birther Movement
Trump once again argues the Clinton campaign started birtherism. Still not true: https://t.co/koZS8g56wa
— Sara Murray (@SaraMurray) October 10, 2016
LIVE FACT-CHECK: Claims that Hillary Clinton started, pushed the birther movement False. https://t.co/wsY1kPZoc9 pic.twitter.com/8aB7rr5n3p
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) October 10, 2016
Fact check: Donald Trump’s ridiculous claim that Hillary Clinton started the birther movement https://t.co/tp25SmCc95
— Sarah Parvini (@sarahparvini) October 10, 2016
.@realDonaldTrump blames @HillaryClinton for starting birther controversy against @POTUS. That's false: https://t.co/gLV2uOP2CL #debate
— Melissa Santos (@MelissaSantos1) October 10, 2016
The claim that Clinton was in any way involved in the birther movement is patently false. https://t.co/i64IfCtozs #debate pic.twitter.com/trndirGuQp
— WIRED (@WIRED) October 10, 2016
I hate to say this again, but I was there and Hillary did not push the birther lie
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) October 10, 2016
For the BILLIONTH TIME — Hillary did NOT start the birther BS.
Period.
Full stop.
Stop lying, Trump!https://t.co/xQRhDQIdKJ#Debate— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) October 10, 2016
Trump On San Bernardino Neighbors
Donald Trump says that “in San Bernardino, many people saw the bombs all over the apartment”
That is not true https://t.co/ddEGLoxbyd pic.twitter.com/UhHQaXgeqW— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) October 10, 2016
FACT CHECK: No law enforcement source I have talked to said there were Muslim neighbors of the San Bernardino terrorists that saw something.
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) October 10, 2016
LIVE FACT-CHECK: Trump’s claim of a neighbor seeing something in San Bernardino, not reporting it is False.https://t.co/3awq4MieJ4 pic.twitter.com/1vDg5V2OMj
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) October 10, 2016
“Many people saw the bombs all over the apartment in san bernardino.” A complete and total lie. Never happened.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October 10, 2016
“Many people saw the bombs all over the apartment” in San Bernardino. This is one of the baldest lies Trump has told on the debate stage.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 10, 2016
There is NO evidence that there were bombs all over the apartment of the San Bernardino shooters. Trump just casually says that all the time
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) October 10, 2016
That is just a lie that many people saw the bombs in San Bernadino. It's slander against Muslims.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 10, 2016
RE: Trump on San Bernardino: “There has been no evidence that neighbors had seen “bombs all over the apartment.” https://t.co/ZOc55a4zUi
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) October 10, 2016
FACT CHECK: NO EVIDENCE that anyone saw any bombs in the San Bernadino terrorist apartment, as Trump claims.
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) October 10, 2016
Trump On Iraq
Once again, Donald Trump was recorded on tape as an early supporter of the Iraq War. https://t.co/i64IfCtozs #debate
— WIRED (@WIRED) October 10, 2016
LIVE FACT-CHECK: Trump said he supported the Iraq Warhttps://t.co/wo1ptE4jTX (debunked) pic.twitter.com/UmLyL3OV9Y
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) October 10, 2016
Trump again falsely says “I was against the War in Iraq.”
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) October 10, 2016
As @LesterHoltNBC noted at 1st debate, there's no evidence that Trump publicly opposed the Iraq War before it began https://t.co/Ema333fVjN
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) October 10, 2016
FACT CHECK: Trump supported the Iraq invasion. #debates
— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) October 10, 2016
Trump:Captain Khan is an American hero. If i were prez he would be alive today. (Again, Trump was not against Iraq invasion as he claims)
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) October 10, 2016
i guess we should keep saying this.
Trump supported the Iraq invasion.— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) October 10, 2016
Trump goes back to false claim he opposed Iraq War.
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) October 10, 2016
Trump Claims U.S. Is The Highest Taxed Nation
Fact Check: Trump's wrong on the U.S. being the highest taxed nation https://t.co/O2aknE8XkX
— Michelle Ye Hee Lee (@myhlee) October 10, 2016
Donald Trump keeps calling the US the “highest taxed nation.: It's not even close https://t.co/DpwOx5Pmgx pic.twitter.com/Hpev6ZJZTi
— Ben Walsh (@BenDWalsh) October 10, 2016
Sorry Donald, the United States is NOT one of the highest-taxed nations in the world. #debate pic.twitter.com/g8fg8fGWM0
— Slate (@Slate) October 10, 2016
FACT CHECK: No, Americans DON“T pay the highest taxes in the world #Debates2016 https://t.co/d5PUCPe4zu
— Saeed Ahmed (@saeed_ahmed) October 10, 2016
Trump says AGAIN that the US has the highest taxes in the world. That's...untrue. https://t.co/RPCi3F9RoA
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) October 10, 2016
Fact Check: Donald Trump on gross domestic product and taxes https://t.co/fcbPgje4K5 pic.twitter.com/sNiB6wkdg5
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) October 10, 2016
Trump On Syrian Refugees
Trump overstates, a lot, the amount of Syrian refugees in the U.S. https://t.co/jx6aEY3ysx
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 10, 2016
Trump says “hundreds of thousands” of Syrians are pouring in the U.S. Yet another lie: https://t.co/IHrsUAPleW #debate
— Arianna Huffington (@ariannahuff) October 10, 2016
Trump on Syrian refugees #debates https://t.co/k6yARrTHae pic.twitter.com/XNpWOc71Wy
— KCRW (@kcrw) October 10, 2016
Trump just said US taking in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees. Actually the US took in Syrian refugee #10,000 in August 2016.
— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) October 10, 2016
TRUMP IS SAYING NONSENSE ABOUT SYRIAN REFUGEES https://t.co/UzEuDCedZp
— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) October 10, 2016
Trump repeats his frequent claim that Syrian refugees are not vetted. https://t.co/W4rODwv2Mu
— TheAtlanticPolitics (@TheAtlPolitics) October 10, 2016