In Tuesday night’s vice-presidential debate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence exuded a calm, composed demeanor that led many commentators to conclude he won the debate. But don’t be fooled — in an effort to defend his running mate, Pence lied or deflected, repeatedly. He did this so much that, when combined, all the clips of him lying “ran at a length of more than 15 minutes, or about one-sixth of the entire program,” according to Slate.

His lies were so bald-faced that, even as he was defending Donald Trump’s temperament and tone, Trump was rattling off insults on Twitter:

To set the record straight, here’s a running list of comments Trump has made, along with the ways that Pence, campaign staffers, others in the Republican party, and Trump himself have tried to distance themselves from controversy:

1. What Trump Said: When announcing his presidential bid, Trump said, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” He continued calling Mexican immigrants rapists, telling Fox: “What can be simpler or more accurately stated? The Mexican government is forcing their most unwanted people into the United States. They are, in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc.”

The Distancing: When Tim Kaine called out Trump for casting Mexicans as criminals and rapists, Pence dismissed it as “that Mexican thing” and argued, “He also said ’and many of them are good people.’”

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2. What Trump Said: Though Trump’s official immigration plan does not include mass deportation, Trump has repeatedly said that he supports the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. On MSNBC’s Morning Joe in November, he said, “You are going to have a deportation force, and you are going to do it humanely.” During his immigration speech in September, he said, “Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation. That is what it means to have laws and to have a country.”

The Distancing: When Kaine said, “Donald Trump proposes to deport 16 million people, 11 million who are here without documents,” and brought up Trump’s promise to use a “deportation force,” Pence said, “That’s nonsense.”

3. What Trump Said: Trump has repeatedly expressed admiration of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin over the past several years. At a rally in February, he said, "I have no relationship with him other than he called me a genius. He said, ’Donald Trump is a genius and he is going to be the leader of the party and he’s going to be the leader of the world,’ or something." In September, Trump told Matt Lauer that Putin "has been a leader far more than our president has been." Pence himself has told CNN that "it’s inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country.”

The Distancing: “Vladimir Putin has run his economy into the ground,” Kaine, raising his concern over Trump’s doting of Putin, said. “He persecutes LGBT folks and journalists. If you don’t know the difference between dictatorship and leadership, then you got to go back to a fifth-grade civics class." When Kaine brought up Trump’s and Pence’s comments repeated praise of Putin, Pence then tried to reverse his stance on Putin, calling him a “small and bullying leader.”

4. What Trump Said: In an interview with ABC’s This Week in July, it appeared that Trump did not know that Putin had invaded Crimea. “He’s not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand,” Trump said. “He’s not gonna go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down.”

The Distancing: When Kaine raised Trump’s apparent ignorance on Crimea, Pence said, “Oh, that’s nonsense,” and that “he knew” about the invasion. Pence later said to Kaine: “Most of what you said is completely false, and the American people know that.”

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5. What Trump Said: In March, Trump told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, “There has to be some form of punishment" for women who seek abortions, if banned. He later adjusted his statement, saying that doctors who provide unlawful abortions should be punished, not the women.

The Distancing: In the vice presidential debate, Pence said, "Donald Trump and I would never support legislation that punished women who made the heartbreaking choice to end a pregnancy. We just never would." He explained that Trump just wasn’t a “polished politician” and that’s why Trump had made those comments. Pence, by the way, has supported the most extreme anti-abortion laws in the country — legislation that many women would consider punishment.

6. What Trump Said: Last fall, Megyn Kelly pointed out that Trump has “called women you don’t like fat pigs, slobs – and disgusting animals.”

The Distancing: When Kaine read a litany of slurs Trump has made during his “insult-driven” campaign — calling Mexicans “rapists and criminals,” calling women “slobs, pigs, dogs, disgusting,” questioning whether President Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen, and more, Pence retorted: “He says ours is an insult-driven campaign. Did you all just hear that? Ours is an insult-driven campaign?”

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7. What Trump Said: Several of Trump’s rallies have turned violent, and the presidential candidate seems to encourage it. "If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you?” he said at a rally in February. “Seriously. Just knock the hell — I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise."

The Distancing: Trump later told ABC, "I don’t condone violence," and, "I never said I was going to pay for fees."

8. What Trump Said: In June, when asked by Face the Nation’s John Dickerson, "Are you talking about increasing profiling of Muslims in America?" Trump said, "Well, I think profiling is something that we’re going to have to start thinking about as a country. And other countries do it. And you look at Israel and you look at others, and they do it. And they do it successfully. And I hate the concept of profiling. But we have to start using common sense, and we have to use our heads.”

The Distancing: On The O’Reilly Factor in September, he walked back his comments — a little bit. When Bill O’Reilly asked Trump if he supported profiling Muslims, Trump said, “Well, first of all, I never said that they were Muslims.You did. You told me Muslims. I didn’t say that. I am saying ... people that maybe look suspicious. I didn’t say they were Muslims."

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9. What Trump Said: In 2011, Trump emerged as the face of the racist birther movement, which demanded that President Obama prove he was a U.S. citizen by releasing his birth certificate. "He doesn’t have a birth certificate,” he said on The O’Reilly Factor. “He may have one, but there’s something on that, maybe religion, maybe it says he is a Muslim. I don’t know. Maybe he doesn’t want that. Or he may not have one. But I will tell you this. If he wasn’t born in this country, it’s one of the great scams of all time."

The Distancing: In September 2016, former New York mayor and Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that Trump renounced the birther theory “two years ago, three years ago” — despite any evidence to the contrary — and blamed Hillary Clinton for perpetuating birther theory.

Then, as if erasing five years of insults, in a press conference Trump said, “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period.” He even accused Clinton of starting it: “Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it.”

10. What Trump Said: In 2002, Trump told Howard Stern that he supported invading Iraq. BuzzFeed, which found the comments, also noted that Trump expressed support for the war in his 2000 book: “We still don’t know what Iraq is up to or whether it has the material to build nuclear weapons. I’m no warmonger,” Trump wrote. “But the fact is, if we decide a strike against Iraq is necessary, it is madness not to carry the mission to its conclusion. When we don’t, we have the worst of all worlds: Iraq remains a threat, and now has more incentive than ever to attack us.”

The Distancing: In a September town hall with Matt Lauer, Trump criticized Clinton for voting for the Iraq war and falsely said that he was against the war. In reality, he initially supported the war and only criticized it after the war began.“I happened to hear Hillary Clinton say that I was not against the war in Iraq. I was totally against the war in Iraq. From a — you can look at Esquire magazine from ’04. You can look at before that.” Esquire promptly issued an editor’s note on the article, writing, “During the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to have been against the Iraq War from the beginning, and he has cited this story as proof. The Iraq War began in March 2003, more than a year before this story ran, thus nullifying Trump’s timeline.”11. What Trump Said:

The Distancing: During the first presidential debate, Clinton said, “Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it’s real.” Trump disavowed his own comments, saying, “I did not say that. I did not say that.”

12. What Trump Said: In 2004, Trump told NBC that pregnancy is "a wonderful thing for the woman, it’s a wonderful thing for the husband, it’s certainly an inconvenience for a business. And whether people want to say that or not, the fact is it is an inconvenience for a person that is running a business."

The Distancing: In an interview with Cosmopolitan.com about Trump’s family leave and child care policy, Trump’s daughter and surrogate Ivanka Trump deflected, saying, “I don’t know that he said those comments.” When Clinton brought up Trump’s comments on pregnancy during the first presidential debate, Trump said, incorrectly, “I never said that.”

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