First Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated

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By Aaron Blake and Team Fix
September 26 at 10:56 PM

... the kind of plan that Donald has put forth would be trickle-down economics all over again ... I call it trumped-up trickle-down ...

...Donald .. rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, "Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money" ...

... Donald, I know you live in your own reality ...

... why won't he release his tax returns? ... I think ... First, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/26/the-first-trump-clinton-presidential-debate-transcript-annotated/

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1. She bolstered and he did damage to his campaign

I don't know how the masses supports such a buffoon after this. We have video of what a buffoon. He's a sham. A grifter. No plan. Secretive. Cannot think on his feet, when he says that's his biggest strength. Well not tonight it wasn't!

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2. Trump Congratulated Himself for Not Bringing Up Bill Clinton’s Infidelities

by Mahita Gajanan
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016, 11:43 PM EDT

... “I’m very happy that I was able to hold back on the indiscretions with respect to Bill Clinton because I have a lot of respect for Chelsea Clinton and I just didn’t want to say what I was going to say,” he said.

When the reporter asked what he was “going to say,” Trump said he would maybe mention it at the next debate ...

http://fortune.com/2016/09/26/presidential-debate-donald-trump-bill-clinton-infidelities/

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3. Did Trump Admit He Doesn't Pay Federal Income Taxes?

by Dan Primack
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016, 11:33 PM EDT

... the two began debating the large federal debt, with Clinton quipping that perhaps it would be smaller if Trump paid income tax.

Trump’s reply? “If I did, it would be squandered” ...

http://fortune.com/2016/09/26/presidential-debate-donald-trump-taxes/

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7. Trump brags about not paying taxes: 'That makes me smart'

Dan Mangan
2 Hours Ago

... "The only years that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax," Clinton said.

Trump quickly retorted: "That makes me smart" ...

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/26/trump-brags-about-not-paying-taxes-that-makes-me-smart.html

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4. Reality Check Quick Takes

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Updated 12:09 AM ET, Tue September 27, 2016

... Trump: "I did not support the war in Iraq."

REALITY CHECK: FALSE

"Wrong," Trump said when Clinton accused him of supporting the Iraq War. But Trump was on the record as supportive of the Iraq War as early as a month before Congress voted to authorize military force in Iraq and even soon after the invasion. He didn't express his outright opposition to the war until more than a year later, in an August 2004 interview ...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/26/politics/fact-check-presidential-debate-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/

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5. Trump’s Team Didn’t Delete Tweet About the Chinese Conspiracy Behind Global Warming

By Osita Nwanevu

There's a claim circulating around Twitter that Trump's social media team deleted the tweet on global warming being a Chinese conspiracy that Trump denied having made during the debate ...

But that tweet has not been deleted—it's right here for all to see ...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/09/26/here_s_that_tweet_on_the_chinese_conspiracy_behind_global_warming_that_trump.html

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6. Trump Has Interrupted Clinton at Least 11 Times

by Chauncey L. Alcorn
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016, 10:35 PM EDT

... By our count, the Republican nominee who made waves during primary season by belittling Fox News host Megan Kelly and tweeting unflattering photos of Ted Cruz’s wife, had already interrupted Hillary Clinton at least 11 times by 10:30 ...

http://fortune.com/2016/09/26/presidential-debate-donald-trump-interrupt-hillary-clinton/