Donald Trump's habit of peddling hype and fabrication emerged unabated in the first presidential debate while Hillary Clinton played it cautiously in her statements, though not without error. They both denied making statements that they are on the record as saying, reports The Associated Press.
A look at some of the claims in the debate and how they compare with fact:
Trump, denying Clinton's accusation that he supported the Iraq war: "Wrong. Wrong." Later: "That is a mainstream media nonsense put out by her. I was against the war in Iraq."
Fact: There is no evidence Trump expressed public opposition to the war before the US invaded, despite his repeated insistence that he did. Rather, he offered lukewarm support. He only began to voice doubts about the conflict well after it began in March 2003.
His first known public comment on the topic came on September 11, 2002, when he was asked whether he supported a potential Iraq invasion in an interview with radio host Howard Stern. "Yeah, I guess so," Trump responded.
On March 21, 2003, just days after the invasion began, Trump said it "looks like a tremendous success from a military standpoint."
Later that year he began voicing doubts.
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Clinton, denying Trump's accusation that she called the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the "gold standard" of trade agreements: "I did say I hoped it would be a good deal."
Fact: Trump is correct. On a 2012 trip to Australia as secretary of state, Clinton called the deal that was taking shape the "gold standard" of trade agreements. She championed it in other venues around the world. She did not merely express the hope it would turn out well.
Clinton flip-flopped into opposing the trade deal in the Democratic primary when facing Bernie Sanders, who was strongly opposed to it.
Trump: "Our jobs are fleeing the country. They're going to Mexico. They're going to many other countries. ... Ford is leaving, thousands of jobs leaving Michigan, leaving Ohio." He added, "They're leaving, and they're leaving in bigger numbers than ever."
Fact: There are no official data on job flows between countries. However, the US economy has added nearly 14.9m jobs since 2010, when the economy bottomed out after the recession.
Clinton: "Independent experts have looked at what I've proposed and looked at what Donald's proposed, and basically they've said this, that if his tax plan...were to go into effect, we would lose 3.5m jobs and maybe have another recession. They've looked at my plans and they've said...we will have 10m more new jobs."
The truth: Those numbers come from one expert, Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, a widely respected analyst but one who has also donated to Clinton's campaign. His estimate that Trump's plan would cost 3.5m jobs was issued in June 2016, and Trump has altered his tax cut proposals and other policies since then.
Trump: "A trade deficit of almost ... $800bn a year."
Fact: The trade deficit was actually $500bn in 2015, certainly large but a lot lower than Trump's figure. The deficit peaked at $761.7bn in 2006, according to the Commerce Department.
Trump: "Had we taken the oil (in Iraq) -- and we should have taken the oil -- IS would not have been able to form."
Fact: Donald Trump's assertion that the US should have seized Iraq's natural resources would have required that it also seize control of the country and at no point was the US in a position to do so.
To achieve Trump's stated goal of destroying Islamic State militants' revenue stream, the US has bombed oil facilities in Iraq. The bombing was designed to render the oil facilities inoperable, but not destroy them, so Iraq could rebuild its economy with its oil when the conflict ended.
Clinton on nuclear deal: "It's been very successful in giving us access to facilities we've never been to before."
Trump: "We gave them $150bn back."
Fact: Both are playing loose with Fact.
The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency had been present in Iran's declared nuclear facilities like Natanz and Fordo long before the July 2015 agreement that eased economic sanctions on the country in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program.
The agency's inspectors had also visited previously the Parchin military base, where nuclear weapons testing was suspected to have taken place. When the agency sought answers on Parchin in September 2015, the Iranians were permitted to take their own soil samples.
As to Trump's claim about the $150bn, the deal allowed Iran to get access to its own money that was frozen in foreign bank accounts, estimated at about $100bn. The US didn't give Iran $150bn.
Trump: "Russia's been expanding. They have much newer capabilities than we do."
Fact: Russia has indeed been expanding its military and increasing spending on weapons and equipment. But the US still has far more advanced military aircraft, weapons and capabilities than Russia. In addition, the Pentagon plans to spend $108bn over the next 5 years to sustain and improve its nuclear force, and is developing the next generation bomber.
Clinton: "Donald publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans."
Trump on hacking of the Democratic National Committee: "I don't think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC... I mean it could be Russia. But it could also be China. It could be lots of other people. It could be somebody sitting on their bed who weighs £400."
Fact: Trump didn't encourage Russia to hack broadly "into Americans," as Clinton said, although he did express the hope that Russian hackers would "find the 30,000 emails that are missing" from Clinton's private server.
Trump's refusal to point the finger at Moscow is at odds with the prevailing position of the US intelligence community. Last week, National Intelligence Director James Clapper said, "There's a tradition in Russia of interfering with elections, their own and others." Top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees say they've concluded Russian intelligence agencies were trying to influence the US presidential election.
Russia has denied the accusation.