When rivals deny their own words

TRUMP ON IRAQ WAR: "Wrong. Wrong. ...  That is a mainstream media nonsense put out by her. I was against the war in Iraq." (After Clinton accused him  of   supporting the  war)

THE FACTS: 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. On March 21, 2003, just days after the invasion began, Trump said it "looks like a tremendous success from a military standpoint."

CLINTON ON Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal:  "I did say I hoped it would be a good deal." (Said clinton  denying Trump's accusation that she called the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the "gold standard" of trade agreements)

THE FACTS: 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.

TRUMP ON CLIMATE CHANGE:  "I did not say that." ( Said the New York billionare when Clinton accused him of calling climate change a hoax invented by the Chinese)

THE FACTS: Yes he did, in the form of a 2012 tweet: "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive." He later claimed he was kidding, but he's also repeated the claim that climate change is a hoax, and one that benefits China.

TRUMP ON TRANSPERANCY OF HIS PERSONAL WEALTH: "I've been under audit for almost 15 years."

THE FACTS: Trump has never provided evidence to the public that he is actually under audit. A letter released by his tax attorneys never used the word, merely describing his tax returns under continuous examination. That is not a formal term for any kind of action by the Internal Revenue Service.

TRUMP to Clinton ON FIGHT AGAINST IS: "You've been fighting ISIS your entire adult life."

THE FACTS: Hillary Clinton was born in 1947 and is 68 years old. She reached adulthood in 1965. The Islamic State group grew out of an al-Qaeda spinoff, al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2013, the year Clinton left the State Department.

TRUMP ON HIS EARLY BUSINESS CAREER: "My father gave me a small loan in 1975."

THE FACTS: Trump got a whole lot more than a small loan. Aside from $1 million in financing from his father, Trump received loan guarantees, bailouts and a drawdown from his future inheritance. Tim O'Brien noted in a 2005 book that Trump not only drew an additional $10 million from his future inheritance during hard times, but also inherited a share of his father's real estate holdings, which were worth hundreds of millions when they were eventually sold off.