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CLEVELAND In accepting his partys nomination for president, Donald Trump said here, at our convention, there will be no lies. But we found plenty of instances where Trump twisted facts or made false claims.

• Trump said after Clintons four years as secretary of state, Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons. But Iran was already on a path to acquiring nuclear weapons. At issue is whether the nuclear deal will prevent Iran, as intended, from becoming a nuclear power.
• He also blamed Clinton for the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. But Clinton and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates both urged President Obama not to be quick to abandon support for Mubarak.
• Trump claimed Clinton plans a massive tax increase, but tax experts say 95 percent of taxpayers would see little or no change in their taxes under Clintons plan.
• He correctly noted a 17 percent increase in homicides in the 50 largest cities from 2014 to 2015, but called it a reversal after a decades-long decline in crime. Experts say thats not enough data to draw conclusions about a trend.
• Trump claimed Clinton illegally stored emails on her private server while secretary of state, and deleted 33,000 to cover-up her crime. But the FBI cleared Clinton of criminal wrongdoing, and found no evidence of a cover-up.
• Trump said that theres no way to screen Syrian refugees to determine who they are or where they come from. But all refugees admitted to the U.S. go through an extensive vetting process that takes 18 to 24 months to complete.
• He said the trade deficit in goods is $800 billion last year alone. It was nearly that, but it discounts the services the U.S. exports. The total trade deficit for goods and services is just over $500 billion.
• Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, also spoke, and he erroneously claimed that the Iran nuclear deal lined the pockets of the worlds number one state sponsor of terrorism with your money. The assets that were unfrozen by the deal werent held by the U.S. government.

Thats not all: Trump made other factual errors and omissions on NAFTA, Libya, household income, government regulation and the Affordable Care Act.

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Analysis

Foreign Policy Flubs

Trump criticized Hillary Clintons performance as secretary of state, contrasting the state of foreign affairs now with what they were like pre-Hillary, as he called it:

• Trump said, Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons. But Iran was already on a path to nuclear weapons before Clinton became secretary of state in January 2009.
• Trump also said, Egypt was turned over to the radical Muslim brotherhood. True, but it was through an election after an uprising against President Hosni Mubarak. Clinton and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates both wrote that they urged President Obama not to be quick to abandon support for Mubarak.

The disagreement between Trump and Clinton on Irans nuclear ambitions is over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action , which is designed to lengthen the so-called breakout time the amount of time that it takes to assemble a bomb.

Prior to the agreement, the breakout time was thought to be months, but now it is more than a year for at least 10 years, as the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service explains in its May report Iran Nuclear Agreement .

However, critics, such the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, say that delay is only temporary a position shared by Trump and many Republicans .

While the agreement lengthens Irans breakout time today, restrictions on Irans program begin to lift within a decade, AIPAC said earlier this month to mark the one-year anniversary of the deal. After 15 years Iran will be a nuclear-threshold state: no restrictions will remain on the number or type of centrifuges Iran will be able to install or the number of enrichment facilities it can build.

But Iran was on a path to a nuclear weapon before Obama took office. The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency has been concerned since 2002 about what it called the possible military dimensions to Irans nuclear programme.

In a Nov. 8, 2011, report, the IAEA reported , Since 2002, the Agency has become increasingly concerned about the possible existence in Iran of undisclosed nuclear related activities involving military related organizations, including activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile, about which the Agency has regularly received new information.

In November 2008, the New York Times reported that Iran had enough nuclear material to make a bomb, citing expert analysis of a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The issue now is how that path has been altered, for better or worse, by the Iran nuclear deal signed by the Obama administration and supported by Clinton (who left the State Department in February 2013 , more than two years before the Iran deal was struck ).

As for Egypt, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was elected president of Egypt. That was a year after citizen protests forced longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign from office. A year after his election as president, Morsi was then overthrown by the Egyptian military and replaced as president by military chief Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi.

In his book Duty, Gates was critical of Obama for being too quick to abandon support for Mubarak a point also made by Clinton in her book Hard Choices.

In an interview last May to discuss his book, Gates said of Clinton: I think that we certainly agreed in terms of how to deal with the very first phases of of the Arab Spring, and, particularly, disagreeing with the President on how to handle Mubarak.