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From Esquire

Just ahead of Sunday's second presidential debate, Donald Trump held a press conference with four women. Three had accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct. As a defense lawyer, Hillary Clinton represented a man whom the fourth accused of raping her in 1975. Unsurprisingly, Trump set out to use these four women for his own personal gain once he got out on stage with Clinton, just over two days after the release of a tape where he is caught on a hot mic talking about assaulting women himself. Trump's Sunday night stunt was also a massive lie:

FACT CHECK: Trump says Clinton got rapist's charges dropped & laughed at victim. She did not.

More: https://t.co/RaTNKcPXVi #debate pic.twitter.com/h9F94bXU0H - NBC News (@NBCNews) October 10, 2016

This is a fairly stunning subversion of the truth. The intent is to make Clinton look like a sociopath who sought out a rapist to get off the hook so she could laugh at the victim afterwards. In reality, Clinton was appointed to the case by a court, and, according to The New York Times, tried to get out of defending the man. She did not get him off, the prosecution bungled the case and he pled out to a lesser charge. In an interview years later, she laughed about how his ability to beat a lie detector test destroyed her faith in them-not at the victim.

Essentially, nothing beyond the most basic details of Trump's account-that there was a case, the victim was 12-years-old, and Clinton defended the accused-is true.

Of course, that's right in line with the rest of the debate record. By some accounts, Trump lied 33 times to Clinton's five last night. The Times has a breakdown of the diverse subjects on which he told falsehoods, from Syrian refugees, to the state of the job market,to his own position on the Iraq War (again), to the idea he didn't instruct his Twitter followers to "check out" Alicia Machado's imaginary sex tape.

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The 33-5 breakdown, by which standard Trump lied more than six times as much as his opponent, is actually an improvement on the first debate. In that one, it was 34-4-and that only includes authentic, unequivocal falsehoods. More subtle perversions of the truth were left out.

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