Donald Trump sharply criticized Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama on Monday, saying their incompetent immigration and national security policies allowed attacks like the mass killing in Orlando and claiming that, barring a change in course, terrorists would leave Americans "without our country."

But while some of Trump's statements were accurate, many were based on a stretch of, or outright disregard for, the facts at hand.


Trump's most prominent stretch is linking the attack to immigration, given that the shooter, Omar Mateen, was a native-born U.S. citizen. Even if one stretches blame to the decision to allow Mateen's parents to enter the U.S., that was decades before Obama took office or Clinton held her post at the head of the State Department.

Trump's flirtation with fiction went further Monday. Here's what he said in his address that passes factual muster, and what falls short.

“The killer, whose name I will not use or ever say, was born in Afghan, of Afghan parents, who immigrated to the United States.”

No gray area here: Omar Mateen was born in New York City 29 years ago .

“The Obama administration, with the support of Hillary Clinton and others, has also damaged our security by restraining our intelligence gathering. And we have just no intelligence gathering information. We need this information so badly. And he stopped it. We don't have the support, we don't have the support of the law enforcement system because Obama is not letting them do their job.”

This is the other major claim of Trump's address, as it represents a serious indictment of the administration's counterterrorism efforts. But Trump offered no specific examples or instances when Obama has hindered either the intelligence community or law enforcement in conducting counterterrorism activities. And Obama was vocal in urging the Senate to renew domestic surveillance tools created by the PATRIOT Act, including a modified version of the controversial bulk data collection program.

“His father published support for the Afghan Taliban, a regime which murders those who don't share its radical views. ... The father even said he was running for president of Afghanistan.”

This one is true: Omar Mateen’s father is Seddique Mir Mateen, who hosts a show on a U.S.-based satellite network geared toward Pashtun Afghans living in America and Europe. His show often features pro-Taliban and anti-American rhetoric. A recent video posted to his YouTube channel shows Seddique Mateen declaring his candidacy for president of Afghanistan, despite the fact that there are no upcoming elections.

“The immigration laws of the United States give the president powers to suspend entry into the country of any class of persons. Now, any class, it really is determined and to be determined by the president.”

This isn't totally false, but it's not as simple as Trump makes it seem: The president does have the authority to restrict “any class” of people from entering the country if their entry would be “detrimental to the interests of the United States.” That authority is not without limits, though, and a move by Trump to ban Muslims from entering the country would likely face a stiff legal challenge.

“According to Pew research, 99 percent of the people in Afghanistan support oppressive Sharia law.”

Trump’s data here come from a 2013 poll of Muslims from the Pew Research Center, which showed 99 percent of Afghans polled said they supported making Sharia law the official law of their country.

Hillary Clinton's "plan is to disarm law-abiding Americans, abolishing the Second Amendment and leaving only the bad guys and terrorists with guns.”

This is a stretch, as Clinton's platform calls for restricting access to guns, but it also presupposes the ongoing sale of firearms. On her campaign website, Clinton’s platform does not list abolishing the Second Amendment among the former secretary of state’s goals. Clinton’s platform does include strengthening background checks, closing loopholes and a pledge to: “Keep guns out of the hands of terrorists, domestic abusers, other violent criminals, and the severely mentally ill.”

“I've said NATO needs to change its focus and stop terrorism. We have to focus on terrorism. And we have to stop terrorism. Since I've raised that criticism, and it's OK, I've gotten no credit for it, but it's OK, NATO has announced a new initiative ... four days ago focused on just that.”

A NATO official told POLITICO last week that its plan to create the new position of assistant secretary general for intelligence had been under consideration for “some time” and had “no connection to any national election campaign.”

“Immigration from Afghanistan into the United States has increased nearly five-fold. Five-fold. In just one year.”

This is accurate, according to government data. The Department of Homeland Security’s 2014 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics (the most recent year available) says the number of people born in Afghanistan who obtained lawful permanent resident status in the U.S. jumped from 2,196 in 2013 to 10,527 in 2014, roughly a five-fold increase. DHS data address only immigrants who are granted permanent lawful resident status and does not include other types of visas.

Josh Gerstein and Seung Min Kim contributed to this report.