Oh man last night during the first presidential debate of the 2016 Election, things got heated. I sat down and live streamed the event on my laptop with my pencil and notebook, ready to take notes. So Clinton started the debate by answering a question on job wages. She says that we should make the wealthy have more effect from taxes rather than the middle and lower class, and that the wealthy should help pay for the wages of the less wealthy. While Trump on the other hand immediately talked about the Mexicans, and how they are stealing our jobs. Then they were asked about child care, all Trump said that he agrees with Clinton on a lot of aspects of child care, only their numbers differ. Then on to trade, Clinton says that we need to have international trade because we're such a big part of the world. Trump says no because he believes that foreign countries are "piggy banking" off of America to better their countries. Then the proctor asks Trump about his tax returns, who says he will after his audit is complete. BUT THEN he says that once Hillary releases the 33,000 emails that she deleted, he will release his tax returns. Hillary in response says that maybe Trump is holding back from releasing his tax returns because he is afraid that it will expose him. For example, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is, or not as charitable, or the $650 million he owes to Wall Street and foreign banks will be revealed as well as the lack of payments towards federal taxes, troops, veterans, and school and health. She roasted him. The rest of the debate was a mess! Trump says our airports make us a third world country and Clinton is the reason for our national debt because of all of her "squandered plans". There were many accusations throughout the night and Clinton said that she was prepared for these, and that the viewers should go to her website and fact check everything. And then she referenced "the fact checkers" every time a crazy accusation was made. Clinton said Trump supported the war in Iraq, which he did not like, since he kept repeating "wrong". He tried defending himself, but didn't do a very convincing job in my opinion. RACISM!! When asked about the race issues, Trump mentioned the "Stop and Frisk" policy that was passed in New York and how successful it was. The proctor interrupted and said that "Stop and Frisk"was ruled unconstitutional because it was noticed as "racial profiling". To which Trump said something along the lines of "It's not racial profiling, they're just bad people". Basically the rest of the debate was Trump avoiding the questions being asked and talking about all of the endorsements he's gotten and how proud of them they are. Also he made a wild accusation of how Obama was to blame for the 4,000 killed in Chicago since his election. Trump says we need Law and Order in inner cities to end the police brutality, and Clinton say that we need to train our police so that they are ready for the various situations they will face. Trump also accused Clinton and Obama of creating a vacuum in Iraq that lead to the formation of ISIS, which is FALSE. Ok there's so much to talk about but not enough brain capacity to talk about it. But there's a lot more information on NPR, and the entire transcript of the debate is there, which also has fact checker along with it. It's really cool and you should check out.
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