<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div id="gmail-donald-trump-statements" class="gmail-interactive-graphic"><div class="gmail-g-graphic gmail-g-graphic-freebird"><div class="gmail-g-item gmail-g-statements-grouped" style="max-width:720px;margin:0px auto"><font size="4">It's difficult to keep track of all of Donald Trump's lies but The New York Times figured if they could do it for just one week that might be a good representational sample of the total number of lies told in the entire campaign. They didn't include "untruths that appeared to be mere hyperbole or humor, or delivered purely for effect, or what could generously be called rounding errors", they were only interested in statements that concerned important things and were contradicted by facts and were objectively false. They found 31 whoppers. Keep in mind this list only includes the lies Trump made between September 15 and September 21, that means every 3.6 waking hours Trump tells a major lie to a cheering audience who love him because he's a straight shooter who tells it like it is. Go figure.</font><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px">===========  </div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;font-size:2.1em;line-height:1.3em;text-align:center">Tall Tales About Himself</span></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;font-size:17px;line-height:27.2px">Mr. Trump’s version of reality allows for few, if any, flaws in himself. As he tells it, the polls are always looking up, his policy solutions are painless and simple and his judgment regarding politics and people has been consistent — and flawless. The most consistent falsehood he tells about himself may be that he opposed the war in Iraq from the start, when the evidence shows otherwise.</span><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">1</div>He said a supportive crowd chanted, “Let him speak!” when a black pastor in Flint, Mich., asked Mr. Trump not to give a political speech in the church.</div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 15.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">There were <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZR8St-NVdI" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">no such chants</a>.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">2</div><span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">“I was against going into the war in Iraq.”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">SPEECH IN FLORIDA, SEPT. 19.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">This is not getting any truer with repetition. He never publicly expressed opposition to the war before it began, and he made <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/in-2002-donald-trump-said-he-supported-invading-iraq-on-the" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">supportive remarks</a> to Howard Stern.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">3</div>He said any supportive comments he made about the Iraq war came “long before” the war began.</div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">He <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/in-2002-donald-trump-said-he-supported-invading-iraq-on-the" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">expressed support</a> for the war in September 2002, when Congress was debating whether to authorize military action.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">4</div>He said he had publicly opposed the Iraq war in an Esquire interview <span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">“pretty quickly after the war started.”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">The <a href="http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a37230/donald-trump-esquire-cover-story-august-2004/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">Esquire interview</a> appeared in the August 2004 edition, 17 months after the war began.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">5</div>Before the Iraq invasion, he said, he had told the Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto something “pretty close” to: <span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">“Don’t go in, and don’t make the mistake of going in.”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">Not remotely close. He told Mr. Cavuto that President George W. Bush <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-09-10/ap-fact-check-trumps-false-claim-of-opposing-the-iraq-war" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">had to take decisive action</a>.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">6</div>He said that when Howard Stern asked him about Iraq in 2002, it was <span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">“the first time the word Iraq was ever mentioned to me.”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">Mr. Trump expressed alarm about Saddam Hussein and the situation in Iraq in 2000 in <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PV6qZU_xev8C&q=iraq#v=snippet&q=iraq&f=false" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">his own book</a>.</div></div></div><div class="gmail-g-item gmail-g-statements-grouped" style="font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;max-width:720px;margin:0px auto"><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">7</div><span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">“You see what’s happening with my poll numbers with African-Americans. They’re going, like, high.”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">SPEECH IN NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20; MADE SAME CLAIM IN OHIO, SEPT. 21.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">Polls show him winning virtually no support from African-Americans.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">8</div>“Almost, it seems, everybody agrees” with his position on immigration.</div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">REMARKS IN TEXAS, SEPT. 17.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/politics/2016-election-presidential-poll-immigration-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">Most Americans oppose</a> his signature positions on immigration.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">9</div>He has made “a lot of progress” with Hispanic and black voters, and “you see that in the polls.<span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">FRED DICKER RADIO SHOW, SEPT. 15.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">No major poll has shown him making up significant ground with black or Hispanic voters.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">10</div>He was “never a fan” of Colin Powell.</div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">In his book “The America We Deserve,” <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PV6qZU_xev8C&q=%22colin+powell%22#v=snippet&q=%22colin%20powell%22&f=false" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">he named Mr. Powell as among the “best and brightest”</a>in American society.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">11</div>Mr. Trump said that after The Times published an article scrutinizing his relationships with women, “All the women came out and said they think Donald Trump is terrific.”</div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">Only <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/ex-trump-girlfriend-new-york-times-223205" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">one woman</a> who was quoted in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">the article</a> came to his defense after its publication.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">12</div>“Unlike other people” who only raise money for themselves during presidential campaigns, he also raises money for the Republican Party.</div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 15.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">Every presidential nominee <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/08/25/4-state-parties-sign-victory-fund-pacts-with-clinton-campaign/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">forms a joint fund-raising agreement</a> to share money with his or her national party.</div></div></div><div class="gmail-g-item gmail-g-subhed" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><h2 style="font-size:2.1em;line-height:1.3em;font-weight:300;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;margin:2em auto 1em;max-width:600px;font-stretch:normal;text-align:center;float:none">Unfounded Claims About<br>Critics and the News Media</h2></div><div class="gmail-g-item gmail-g-text" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="gmail-g-body" style="margin:0px auto 1em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;max-width:540px">It’s not just Mrs. Clinton whom Mr. Trump belittles and tars with inaccurate information. He also distorted the facts about his Republican critics, including President George Bush and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio. And he claimed that Lester Holt, the NBC anchor moderating the first presidential debate, is a Democrat — but Mr. Holt is a registered Republican.</p></div><div class="gmail-g-item gmail-g-statements-grouped" style="font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;max-width:720px;margin:0px auto"><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">13</div>In the primaries, Mr. Kasich <span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">“won one and, by the way, didn’t win it by much — that was Ohio.”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 19.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">Mr. Kasich <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/ohio" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">crushed him in Ohio</a>, winning by 11 percentage points.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">14</div>Lester Holt, the NBC anchor and debate moderator, <span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">“is a Democrat.”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 19.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">Mr. Holt is a registered Republican, New York City records show.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">15</div>The presidential debate moderators <span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">“are all Democrats.” “It’s a very unfair system.”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 19.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">Only one, Chris Wallace of Fox News, is a registered Democrat.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">16</div>He said it “hasn’t been reported” that Mrs. Clinton called some Trump supporters <span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">“deplorable.”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">SPEECH IN NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">It would be difficult to find a news organization that didn’t <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/us/politics/hillary-clinton-basket-of-deplorables.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">report her remark</a>.</div></div></div><div class="gmail-g-item gmail-g-subhed" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><h2 style="font-size:2.1em;line-height:1.3em;font-weight:300;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;margin:2em auto 1em;max-width:600px;font-stretch:normal;text-align:center;float:none">Inaccurate Claims About Clinton</h2></div><div class="gmail-g-item gmail-g-text" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="gmail-g-body" style="margin:0px auto 1em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;max-width:540px">Mr. Trump regularly dissembles about his opponent, attributing ideas to Mrs. Clinton that she has not endorsed, or accusing her of complicity in events in which she had no involvement.</p></div><div class="gmail-g-item gmail-g-statements-grouped" style="font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;max-width:720px;margin:0px auto"><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">17</div>“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it.”</div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">REMARKS IN WASHINGTON, SEPT. 16.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">Mrs. Clinton and her campaign <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/politics/donald-trump-obama-birther.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">never </a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/politics/donald-trump-obama-birther.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">publicly </a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/politics/donald-trump-obama-birther.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">questioned President Obama’s birthplace</a>; Mr. Trump made it his signature cause for five years.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">18</div>Mrs. Clinton had “the power and the duty” to stop the release of unauthorized immigrants whose home countries would not accept their deportation after they were released from prison.</div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">NUMEROUS SPEECHES, INCLUDING IN COLORADO, SEPT. 17, AND FLORIDA, SEPT. 19.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">The secretary of state does not have the power to detain convicted criminals after they have served their sentences, and has little power to make foreign countries accept deportees.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">19</div>Mrs. Clinton has not criticized jihadists and foreign governments that oppress and kill women, gay people and non-Muslims. <span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">“Has Hillary Clinton ever called people who support these practices deplorable and irredeemable? No.”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">SPEECH IN FLORIDA, SEPT. 19.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">She has denounced jihadists and foreign countries on the same grounds, if not necessarily using the same words.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">20</div><span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">“Do people notice Hillary is copying my airplane rallies — she puts the plane behind her like I have been doing from the beginning.”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2"><a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/778237485402980352" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">TWITTER</a>, SEPT. 20.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">He did not invent the tarmac rally or the campaign-plane backdrop.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">21</div>Mrs. Clinton destroyed 13 smartphones with a hammer while she was secretary of state.</div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">SPEECHES IN FLORIDA, SEPT. 15 AND SEPT. 19.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">An aide <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/us/politics/6-things-we-learned-in-the-fbi-clinton-email-investigation.html?_r=1" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">told the F.B.I. of only two occasions</a> in which phones were destroyed with a hammer.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">22</div>He said Mrs. Clinton is calling for “total amnesty in the first 100 days,” including “a virtual end to immigration enforcement” and for unauthorized immigrants to receive Social Security and Medicare.</div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">SPEECH IN COLORADO, SEPT. 17.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">She has not proposed this.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">23</div>Mrs. Clinton is <span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">“effectively proposing to abolish the borders around the country.”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">NUMEROUS SPEECHES, INCLUDING IN TEXAS, SEPT. 17.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">She is not even proposing to cut funding for the Border Patrol.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">24</div>“Hillary Clinton’s plan would bring in 620,000 refugees in her first term alone,” and would cost $400 billion.</div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">NUMEROUS SPEECHES, INCLUDING IN NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">She endorsed <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/20/hillary-clinton-calls-for-the-u-s-to-accept-more-syrian-refugees/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">admitting 65,000 Syrian refugees</a> this year, on top of other admissions. Mr. Trump is falsely claiming that she wants to do this every year and is estimating the cost accordingly.</div></div></div><div class="gmail-g-item gmail-g-subhed" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><h2 style="font-size:2.1em;line-height:1.3em;font-weight:300;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;margin:2em auto 1em;max-width:600px;font-stretch:normal;text-align:center;float:none">Stump Speech Falsehoods</h2></div><div class="gmail-g-item gmail-g-text" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="gmail-g-body" style="margin:0px auto 1em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;max-width:540px">Some warped or inaccurate claims have become regular features of Mr. Trump’s stump speech. He routinely overstates the scale and nature of the country’s economic distress and the threats to its national security, and exaggerates the potential for overnight improvements if he were elected.</p></div><div class="gmail-g-item gmail-g-statements-grouped" style="font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;max-width:720px;margin:0px auto"><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">25</div><span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">“Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape that they’ve ever been in before — ever, ever, ever.”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">SPEECH IN NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">No measurement supports this characterization of black America.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">26</div>Fifty-eight percent of black youth are not working.</div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">NUMEROUS SPEECHES, INCLUDING IN FLORIDA, SEPT. 16, AND COLORADO, SEPT. 17.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">This misleading statistic counts high school students as out of work. Black youth unemployment actually was <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/youth.nr0.htm" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">20.6 percent</a> in July.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">27</div>Many dangerous refugees are being welcomed by the Obama administration. <span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">“Hundreds of thousands of people are being approved to pour into the country. We have no idea who they are.”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">NEW HAMPSHIRE SPEECH, SEPT. 15.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">The Obama administration has admitted <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/us/politics/us-could-exceed-goal-of-accepting-10000-syrian-refugees.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">more than 10,000 Syrian refugees</a>, using an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/11/20/infographic-screening-process-refugee-entry-united-states" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">extensive screening process</a>.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">28</div><span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">“We have cities that are far more dangerous than Afghanistan.”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">NUMEROUS SPEECHES, INCLUDING IN FLORIDA, SEPT. 16; COLORADO, SEPT. 17; NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20; OHIO, SEPT. 21; AND A FOX NEWS INTERVIEW ON SEPT. 21.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">No American city resembles a war zone, though crime has risen lately in some, like Chicago. Urban violence has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/08/us/us-murder-rates.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">fallen precipitously over the past 25 years</a>.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">29</div>Ford plans to cut American jobs by relocating small-car production to Mexico, and may move all production outside the United States.</div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW AND NEW HAMPSHIRE SPEECH, SEPT. 15.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">Mark Fields, Ford’s chief executive, said it <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/15/news/companies/donald-trump-ford-ceo-mark-fields/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">was not cutting American jobs</a>.</div></div><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">30</div><span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">“We have a trade deficit this year with China of approximately $500 billion.”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">NORTH CAROLINA SPEECH, SEPT. 20.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">He has made this claim repeatedly, but the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/us/politics/-trade-donald-trump-breaks-200-years-economic-orthodoxy-mercantilism.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">trade deficit with China is significantly smaller</a>.</div></div></div><div class="gmail-g-item gmail-g-subhed" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><h2 style="font-size:2.1em;line-height:1.3em;font-weight:300;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;margin:2em auto 1em;max-width:600px;font-stretch:normal;text-align:center;float:none">Esoteric Embellishments</h2></div><div class="gmail-g-item gmail-g-text" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="gmail-g-body" style="margin:0px auto 1em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;max-width:540px">Mr. Trump often dissembles on subjects of passing interest, like the news of the day or the parochial concerns of his local audiences. But his larger pattern of behavior still holds: These misstatements, too, accentuate the grievances of his supporters, and cast his own ideas in a more favorable light.</p></div><div class="gmail-g-item gmail-g-statements-grouped" style="font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,sans-serif;max-width:720px;margin:0px auto"><div class="gmail-g-statement-container" style="margin-bottom:40px"><div class="gmail-g-statement" style="font-size:24px;line-height:1.3;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-g-counter" style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:0.6em;text-align:center;width:27px;height:27px;line-height:27px;vertical-align:bottom;border-radius:100%;margin-right:0.5em;font-weight:500;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">31</div>Senator Bernie Sanders fell victim to “a rigged system with the superdelegates.<span class="gmail-g-doc-bold">”</span></div><div class="gmail-g-where" style="margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2">SPEECHES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, SEPT. 15, AND NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20.</div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px">Mr. Sanders did not lose the Democratic nomination because of superdelegates. Mrs. Clinton <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/primary-calendar-and-results.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">beat him in pledged delegates</a>, too.</div></div><div><div class="gmail-g-check" style="font-family:georgia;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;line-height:1.5;font-size:17px"><br></div></div></div></div></div><footer class="gmail-story-footer" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:24px;max-width:945px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;font-size:16px"></span><div class="gmail-story-info gmail-interactive-credit" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;font-size:16px"></div></footer></div></div>