Discussion: AP: Fact-Checking The Second Presidential Debate In St. Louis

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TRUMP, asked whether he had ever sexually assaulted a woman: “No, I have not.”

THE FACTS: He’s been accused of it but a case has not been proved.

Plus, he admitted he did on tape, so there’s that…

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CLINTON: “After a yearlong investigation, there is no evidence that
anyone hacked the server I was using, and there is no evidence that
anyone can point to, at all … that any classified material ended up in
the wrong hands.”

If her server had been hacked, why haven’t any of the stolen emails been released yet? It looks like her setup may have been more secure than some of the commercial and government’s servers that routinely get hacked. Either that, or there’s nothing in the stolen emails that could be politically damaging, so Putin decided not to bother releasing them.

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TRUMP, asked whether his tweets directing people to check out a sex tape showed discipline: “It wasn’t ‘check out a sex tape.’”

THE FACTS: During the debate, Trump did not say, “It wasn’t ‘check out a sex tape.’” What Trump said was, “It wasn’t ‘check out a sexed ape.’”