20 Fact Checks From the First Presidential Debate

Politics 2016 Presidential Debates Sep 27 2016, 11:01 am ET
20 Fact Checks From the First Presidential Debate


NBC News and our friends at PolitiFact fact checked the first presidential debate. Here's what we found.

1. Trump said it's "wrong" that he supported the invasion of Iraq. It's not.

2. Trump said he told Howard Stern "very lightly, I don't know, maybe, who knows?" about the war in Iraq. Trump actually said "I guess so, yeah."

3. Trump said Clinton and her campaign started the "birther" movement. They didn't.

4. Trump said it was "wrong" to say that stop-and-frisk racially profiled individuals. It did.

5. Trump said ending stop-and-frisk made the city more dangerous. It didn't.

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