Trump was economical with truth

A look at some of the claims made in the debate and how they compare with the facts:

RACE MATTERS

TRUMP: He said a racial discrimination case against his real estate business in the 1970s was settled “with no admission of guilt” and that the case was “brought against many real estate developers”

THE FACTS: The first claim is technically correct; the second is flatly false. Trump and his father fiercely fought a 1973 discrimination lawsuit brought by the Justice Department for their alleged refusal to rent apartments in predominantly white buildings to black tenants

IRAQWAR

TRUMP: “Wrong. Wrong,” he said when Clinton pointed out that he supported the Iraq war THE FACTS: There is no evidence Trump expressed public opposition to the war before the US invasion. Days after the invasion, he said it “looks like a tremendous success from a military standpoint”

DEBT CHECK

TRUMP: President Barack Obama “has doubled (the national debt) in almost eight years... When we have $20 trillion in debt, and our country is a mess.”

THE FACTS: Trump’s concern about the national debt obscures that his own policies would increase it by much more than Clinton’s. Trump’s tax cuts would raise the deficit by $5.3 trillion over 10 years, while Clinton’s proposals would boost it by $200 billion

TAX RETURNS

TRUMP: “You don’t learn a lot from tax returns”

THE FACTS: Americans stand to learn plenty if he releases his tax returns like other presidential candidates have done in the past

DEAL WITH IT: CLINTON WAS WRONG TOO

CLINTON: Denied Trump’s accusation that she had called the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the “gold standard” of trade agreements THE FACTS: Trump is correct. Clinton flip-flopped into opposing the trade deal in the Democratic primary when facing Bernie Sanders, who was strongly opposed to it