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All Half-True statements involving Hillary Clinton

Half-True

Trump later said he was being sarcastic

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

Says Donald Trump "publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans’ (emails)."

— PolitiFact National on Monday, September 26th, 2016

Half-True

Blowing up a nuclear claim

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

Says New START, passed while Clinton was secretary of state, is a "treaty cutting Russia’s nuclear arms."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, September 21st, 2016

Half-True

Needs context

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

Says comprehensive immigration reform "will add $700 billion to our economy."  

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, September 21st, 2016

Half-True

Respected analysis backs her, but it's only one estimate

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

Says she "would bring 186,740 new jobs to Wisconsin" and "Donald Trump would cost Wisconsin 61,050 jobs."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, September 16th, 2016

Half-True

Cleared a pretty low bar

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

The Clinton Foundation "took steps that went above and beyond all legal requirements and, indeed, all standard requirements followed by every other charitable organization."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, August 31st, 2016

Half-True

Requires many assumptions

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

Says her campaign platform includes the "biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, August 17th, 2016

Half-True

Ignores a lot of votes for bilateral trade deals

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

"I opposed the only multilateral trade deal that came before the Senate while I was there."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, August 12th, 2016

Half-True

Not all of it comes from workers

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

Undocumented immigrants "pay $12 billion a year into Social Security."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, August 10th, 2016

Half-True

A Half True hat-tip to Bernie

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

"More than 90 percent of the gains have gone to the top 1 percent."  

— PolitiFact National on Friday, July 29th, 2016

Half-True

That's not the count from day one

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

"Our economy is so much stronger than when (Barack Obama and Joe Biden) took office. Nearly 15 million new private-sector jobs."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, July 29th, 2016

Half-True

Not the only estimate, but a credible one

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

"Independent analysts say (Donald Trump) would add $30 trillion to the national debt."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, July 13th, 2016

Half-True

It's electric!

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

"Cincinnati is already one of the biggest cities in the country to run 100 percent on clean energy."

— PolitiFact Ohio on Friday, July 1st, 2016

Half-True

Zandi is a Clinton donor, too

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

Says Mark Zandi, who wrote a report criticizing Donald Trump’s economic proposals, is "one of Sen. John McCain's former economic advisers."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, June 24th, 2016

Half-True

Clinton's claim requires several caveats

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

"It is a fact that the economy does better when we have a Democrat in the White House."

— PolitiFact California on Wednesday, June 8th, 2016

Half-True

Trump took it back

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

Says Donald Trump "has the gall to say that prisoners of war like John McCain aren’t heroes."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, June 3rd, 2016

Half-True

At least as evidence of experience with Russia

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

Says Donald Trump "says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, June 3rd, 2016

Half-True

Best data generally backs claim, but it's from 1998

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

About "1 percent of all the gun sellers are responsible for more than half of the guns that are used in crimes."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, April 15th, 2016

Half-True

A complex legal debate

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

"We have tougher standards holding toy gun manufacturers and sellers to account than we do for real guns."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, April 14th, 2016

Half-True

Right number; significance is murkier

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

"The state that has the highest per capita number of … guns that end up committing crimes in New York come from Vermont."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, April 12th, 2016

Half-True

Murky legal definitions

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

Says Bernie Sanders "wants higher standards for toy guns than real guns."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, April 8th, 2016