1. Trump said there's a ISIS attack launched every 84 hours. Response: The Intel Center says there have been about three attacks every month over the 26 months covered by their data.
2. The rise of ISIS is the direct result of policy decisions of Obama and Clinton. Response: Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book on the rise of the Islamic State, links the rise to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
3. Iran is flush with $150 billion in cash from the U.S. Treasury Department and after Iran meets other obligations, it will have about $55 billion left. Response: This is frozen Iranian assets, which a court has ordered the U.S. to return to Iran.
4. Trump claims everything bad internationally started with President Obama's "Apology Tour." Response: The "Apology Tour" is a discredited GOP talking point.
5. Hillary Clinton is responsible for the disaster in Libya. Response: Buzzfeed has found a 2011 video in which Trump says: "Gaddafi in Libya is killing thousands of people. Nobody knows how bad it is, and we're sitting around. We have soldiers all over the Middle East, and we're not bringing them in to stop this horrible carnage, and that's what it is: It's a carnage.... Now we should go in, we should stop this guy, which would be very easy, and very quick."
6. Trump says: "I was an opponent of the Iraq war from the beginning." Response: There is no clear record that Donald Trump was against the war from the beginning. He has claimed he stated he was against the war in a January 2003 on Fox News with Neil Cavuto. Trump was ambiguous on that show. He said we've got to do something or not do something. "Perhaps [we] shouldn't be doing it yet and perhaps we should be waiting for the United Nations, you know." Also to be noted: Trump said he supported the invasion of Iraq on the Howard Stern Show.
Trump said: "In August of 2004, very early, right after the conflict, I made a detailed statement to Esquire magazine [opposing the war.)" This is nearly eighteen months after the invasion, a time when opposition had begun to build against the war.
7. Trump said that Obama "got us out the wrong way," referring to Iraq. But in March 2007, Trump said we should just "declare victory and leave."
8. Trump has said that Hillary Clinton will admit 620,000 refugees in her first term. Clinton has proposed admitting 55,000 in her first term.
9. Trump has said: "Keep the oil! Keep the oil!" referring to Iraq. Response: All of the oil used and sold by ISIS is from Syria. Keeping the oil would be a violation of international law.
10. Trump has hailed the autocratic Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sissi. Response: President al-Sissi came to power in a military coup in 2003 and has since instituted a crackdown on dissidents.
11. Trump has proposed "extreme, extreme vetting." He wants a new screening test for the threats we face today. Response: Current U.S. naturalization law requires adherence to "the principles of the Constitution of the United States" and rejects advocacy of ideological positions; also, those with proclivities, in the judgment of immigration officials, to commit crimes can be denied admission.
12. Trump would use military commissions to try U.S. citizens charged with terrorist activity. Response: The use of military commissions is currently prohibited by law.
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