Debate Fact-Check: How Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Stack Up

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump tangled in an intense series of exchanges tonight during the first presidential debate of 2016. The candidates made charges about each others' records while defending their own careers and policy proposals.

But were they always telling the truth? How often did Trump and Clinton spin facts to fit their arguments? ABC News fact-checked some of the most noteworthy claims made in the debate:

Clinton: "Because we will be making investments where we can grow the economy. Take clean energy. Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century. Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax, perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it's real.”

Trump: "I did not. I did not. I do not say that. I do not say that."

Grade: False

Explanation: Trump tweeted in November 2012 that the "concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese." This tweet resurfaced again in January 2016, when former Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders pointed it out on NBC's "Meet the Press." The next day, Trump addressed the comment on "Fox & Friends," saying his tweet was basically a joke: "I often joke that this is done for the benefit of the Chinese. Obviously, I joke. But this is done for the benefit of China, because China does not do anything to help climate change." Trump has, on other occasions between 2012-2015, called global warming a hoax, though he has not attributed it to the Chinese.

Trump: "See you are telling the enemy everything you want to do. No wonder you have been, no wonder you have been fighting ISIS your entire adult life."

Grade: False

Explanation: ISIS has its origins in Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni insurgency group founded in 2004 after the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. In 2013, the group re-branded itself as Islamic State in Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) and shifted operations to include Syria where the civil war enabled its growth and resurgence. This occurred after Clinton had finished serving as Secretary of State. Clinton is 68 years old and turned 18 in 1965, almost 51 years ago.

Clinton: "Donald was very fortunate in his life and that's all to his benefit. He started his business with $14 million, borrowed from his father, and he really believes that the more you help wealthy people, the better off we'll be and that everything will work out from there. I don't buy that. I have a different experience. My father was a small business man. He worked really hard."

Grade: Yes and No

Explanation: Trump claims that his business grew out of a $1 million loan from his father in 1975. But a casino license disclosure from 1985 shows that in the late 1970s and early 1980s Trump took $14 million in loans from his father and his father’s properties, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Trump: "You called it the gold standard. You called it the gold standard of trade deals. You said it’s the finest deal you have ever seen and then you heard what I said about it and all of a sudden you were against it."

Grade: Yes and no.

Explanation: Clinton said TPP “sets the gold standard,” and has used many other glowing terms to describe the agreement, but she did not say it was the "finest deal" she’s ever seen. While Clinton served as secretary of state, she promoted the TPP well after negotiations began in 2010, saying in 2012 in Australia that it “sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field.” She also used many other complimentary words, including "exciting," "innovative," "ambitious," "groundbreaking," "cutting-edge," "high-quality," and "high-standard,” according to a compilation by the fact-checking site Politifact – but there are no records of her saying it was “the greatest deal she’d ever seen.” Further, Clinton began to moderate her position on TPP as she began preparing her second presidential bid, culminating with a full renunciation of it during a 2015 PBS interview in which she said, “As of today, I am not in favor of what I have learned about it.” It is worth noting, however, that she was not serving as secretary of state when the deal was finalized. Clinton countered Trump in Monday’s debate by trying to clarify that she said she had “hoped” TPP would set a gold standard for trade.

Clinton: "And when we talk about your business, you've taken business bankruptcy six times. There are a lot of great business people that have never taken bankruptcy once. You call yourself the king of debt, you talk about leverage, you even at one time suggested that you would try to negotiate down the --

Trump: "Wrong, wrong."

"National debt of the United States. Well, sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government."

Grade: Yes and No

Explanation: Trump suggested he will renegotiate the national debt in an interview with CNBC on May 5, 2016, but then said in the Wall Street Journal on May 10, 2016 that he would buy back U.S. debt at a discount. "I’m only saying you can buy back…I’m saying if interest rates go up, you can buy debt at a discount on the market — just on the market. You just buy back debt on — at a discount," he told the Journal.

ABC News’ Margaret Chadbourn, Sarah Kolinovsky, Justin Fishel, Luis Martinez, Lauren Pearle, Ali Rogin contributed to this report.

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