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Hillary Clinton:
“You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists’ sites and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters.”
An East African affiliate of the al-Qaida terrorist group has used a video clip of Trump in one of its videos, telling “Muslims of the West” that they are not welcome in countries like the United States and urging them to join the terrorist group, according to multiple news reports.
While it’s difficult to determine how effective the videos are, at least one has featured Trump’s words.
We rate Clinton's statement True.
Donald Trump:
“We have an increase in murder within our cities, the biggest in 45 years.”
The number of murders nationally did rise by the biggest amount in 45 years, and criminologists agree that this is a development worth paying attention to.
But they add that it comes after a steep, quarter-century decline, which suggests that it is not yet a cause for panic.
The statement is accurate but needs clarification and additional information.
We Trump's statement Mostly True.
Hillary Clinton:
“I was gone” when there was a red line against Syria.
Clinton was secretary of state in August 2012 when Obama said if the Assad regime were to use chemical weapons, that would cross a “red line” after which Obama would consider using military force in Syria. In the months following that statement, Clinton reiterated Obama’s position, using the phrase “red line.”
A year later, August 2013, the White House confirmed Syria had crossed this “red line.” By this point, Clinton had left the State Department months earlier. However, in the days following that revelation, Clinton met with Obama and his staff several times and publicly endorsed the White House’s position on how to respond.
The claim has an element of truth, but leaves out critical information that would give a different impression.
We rate Clinton's claim Mostly False.
Donald Trump:
“ICE just endorsed me.”
Trump made it sound like a federal agency had taken the remarkable step of formally supporting him. But ICE, which enforces federal immigration laws and employs more than 20,000 people, cannot do that.
He has the support of employee groups. But that’s vastly different than what he said at the debate.
We Trump's his claim Mostly False.
Donald Trump:
Says Hillary Clinton “wants to go to a single-payer plan” for health care
She has consistently said she would fight efforts to repeal Obamacare and would try to improve it. She said she wants a public option to be “possible” but she has not called for moving to a system of only single payer.
Clinton has not called for a single-payer plan. At times, she has praised the health care systems of other countries that have a single-payer plan, but she has not advocated that plan for the United States. We rate Trump's claim False.
Donald Trump:
”You (Hillary Clinton) get a subpoena, and after getting the subpoena you delete 33,000 emails.”
Clinton’s staff received a subpoena for Benghazi-related emails March 4. An employee managing her server deleted 33,000 of Clinton’s emails three weeks later.
The FBI found no evidence that the emails were deleted deliberately to avoid the subpoena or other requests. Clinton’s team requested for the emails to be deleted months before the subpoena came. They also argued that all the emails that would be relevant to the subpoena had already been turned over to the State Department.
We rate Trump's claim Half True.
Hillary Clinton:
“Right now we are at 90 percent health insurance covered. That’s the highest we’ve ever been in our country.”
According to Census Bureau data, that’s correct.
Itnwas just shy of 91 percent in 2015, the most recent year for which data is available.
We rate Clinton's statement True.
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