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ByCalvinWoodwardand Christopher S. Rugaber TheAssociatedPress WASHINGTON Forallofhis occasional restraint, Donald Trump offered debate view- ers a greatest-hits collection from his history of mangled facts, with some new ones thrown in. For all of her pol- icy sobriety, Hillary Clinton was far from flawless. People who had somehow avoided the campaign until the opening presidential de- bate heard with fresh ears Trump'sbogusclaimsthathe opposed the Iraq war before it started and that he never branded climate change a made-in-China hoax. For people who've been paying attention,everythingoldwas new again. A sampling of the state- ments from Monday night and how they stack up with the facts: Trump When Clinton said he paid no income tax for sev- eral years: "That makes me smart." Thefacts Savvy tax planning was why he avoided paying taxes inthoseyears.Itwasbecause he was losing money. For at least two years in theearly1990s,thebusiness- man posted losses that were large enough to cancel out any gains he would have had to report from his creditors writingdownhisdebts.That isknownbecauseTrumphad to show tax returns then to New Jersey gaming regula- tors to get a casino license. He's otherwise refused to make his returns public. Clinton "WhenIbecamesecretary ofstate,Iranwasweeksaway from having enough nuclear material to form a bomb. They had mastered the nu- clear fuel cycle under the Bush administration. They had built covert facilities. They had stocked them with centrifuges that were whirl- ing away." Thefacts Not so. Iran moved to be- ing as close to weeks away from bomb-making capabil- ityduringtheObamaadmin- istration,whenshewassecre- taryofstate,notunderPresi- dent George W. Bush. On the day Clinton was confirmedassecretary,David Albright, a former chief U.N. weapons inspector, wrote that "Iran appears to need at least another few months to accumulate enough low- enriched uranium to have a break-out capability." And some U.S. intelligence offi- cials at the time were esti- mating that Iran could be still a year away from such capability. U.S. officials only began citing a time-frame of weeks as they closed in on a final deal with Iran in 2015. Trump When asked why he con- tinued to raise questions about Barack Obama's coun- try of birth even after the president produced his birth certificate in 2011: "Nobody was pressing it, nobody was caring much about it." Thefacts Trump himself continued to press false theories about Obama'sbirthplaceafterthey were debunked. His claim that the matter faded when thebirthcertificatecameout belies his efforts to keep the myth alive. "Was it a birth certifi- cate?" he asked in a 2012 in- terview. "He was perhaps born in Kenya. Very simple, OK?" Trump said in 2014. "WhoknowsaboutObama?" Trump asked in January 2016. Trump Denying Clinton's accu- sation that he supported the Iraq war: "Wrong. Wrong." Later:"Thatisamainstream media nonsense put out by her.... I was against the war in Iraq." Thefacts There is no evidence Trump expressed public op- position to the war before the U.S. invaded, despite his repeated insistence that he did. Rather, he offered luke- warm support. He only be- gantovoicedoubtsaboutthe conflict well after it began in March 2003. His first known public comment on the topic came on Sept. 11, 2002, when he was asked whether he sup- ported a potential Iraq in- vasion in an interview with radio host Howard Stern. "Yeah, I guess so," Trump re- sponded.OnMarch21,2003, just days after the invasion, Trump said it "looks like a tremendous success from a military standpoint." Later that year he began expressing reservations. Clinton "We're working with NATO, the longest military alliance in the history of the world, to really turn our at- tention to terrorism." Thefacts When it comes to longev- ity, NATO takes a back seat to the Anglo-Portuguese Al- liance, the Peloponnesian League and numerous other military alliances. The Anglo-Portuguese Al- liance, still in effect, is either 643 years old or 376 years old, depending on whether the start date is considered to be before or after a rup- ture along the way. The Peloponnesian League, organized and led by Sparta, lasted 200 years, from the 6th to 4th centu- ries BC. AP FACT CHECK Trump, Clinton deny their own words in debate JOHNLOCHER—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Donald Trump participates in a roundtable event Tuesday in Miami. Youcouldwinanall-expensepaid SupertripfortwototheBigGameinFebruary! WatchfootballwithusatRollingHillsCasino, andyoucouldwinweeklyprizesupto$1000cash! 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