LEE COUNTY, FLA. -- After listening to Donald Trump's speech in Estero Monday, we wanted to do some fact checking and double check what he had to say.
Fact checkers around the country dissected the Trump's words and we found a couple of discrepancies ourselves. The big one has to do with Trump making a comment a couple of times that he never supported the Iraqi invasion.
He stated he opposed going to war with Iraq. Our fact check found that may not be true. In September 2002, during a radio interview with shock jock Howard Stern, he asked Trump directly if he supported the war with Iraq and Trump replied; “Yeah, I guess so."
And Trump took a couple of swings at his opponent, Hillary Clinton; accusing her of being soft on immigrants. "My opponent has the most open borders policy of anyone ever to seek the presidency."
But claiming that Clinton has the most 'open borders' policy suggests she's allowing people to travel freely or with very few restrictions between two countries. That's not exactly what Clinton proposed. Clinton has supported legislation that includes a path to citizenship with certain conditions and she included heightened border security.
As a candidate, she says she will focus on deportations of criminals, which doesn't exactly line up with what Trump is saying.
Trump also repeatedly claimed Hillary Clinton won't use the phrase, "radical Islam" but she actually used the phrase more than once earlier this summer.
Finally, Trump doubted whether the press would cover how many people came to the rally, in fact many had to be turned away because there were no more seats left. Well, we can assure you we were out there and covered it extensively.
