Fact-checks from the second presidential debate
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton square off in their second debate, on the heels of a leaked tape of Trump’s lewd remarks about hitting on women in 2005.
The debate, the only one in which undecided voters ask the candidates questions directly, with Trump defending his explicit comments as "locker room talk." Trump said he was "embarrassed" by them before pivoting to how he will deal with ISIS.
Here are claims Clinton and Trump have made, fact-checked.
Trump: The Clinton campaign started the birther movement.
As PolitiFact and multiple fact-checkers have reported, this is False. Trump invoked Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton advisor, who reportedly told a reporter to look into President Barack Obama’s birthplace. But Blumenthal denies this and the reporter has said he has no evidence. There’s still no smoking gun to tying birtherism to the Clinton campaign.