The first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, largely lived up to the hype. There were interruptions, arguments about temperament, and heated exchanges over issues including energy, trade, crime and much more. Trump loses cool while Clinton stays calm during first presidential debate.

Highlights of the presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump:

• Trumph said “Our jobs are fleeing the country, they’re going to Mexico they’re going to many other countries … Hundreds of hundreds of companies are doing this.”
• Trump claimed that his tax plan will be the largest cuts since Ronald Reagan and create jobs, while in his words Clinton’s would create a huge tax hike.Trump’s tax plan would disproportionately help the wealthiest Americans, saving them millions of dollars and adding trillions to the national debt, according to an analysis by the Tax Foundation, a conservative thinktank. He would reduce the business tax rate to 15%, eliminate the estate tax (aka the “death tax”), which mostly affects wealthy inheritors, and would reduce revenue from taxes by about $5tn. According to the Foundation, the top 1% of earners would see a 10.2% increase to their incomes.

  Clinton’s tax plan does not change tax rates for the middle class, but does increase taxes by 4% on people who have an adjusted income of more than $5m, as well as closing corporate loopholes. Only about 0.5% of small businesses in the US reported a profit of more than $1m in 2011, according to the US treasury department. Clinton would increase tax revenue by $1.1tn by taxing the top 1% of earners, increasing the estate tax and eliminating fossil fuel subsidies, and by implementing and a more complex tax code, according to the Tax Policy Center.

• Trumph said “African Americans and Hispanics are living in hell because it’s so dangerous. In Chicago they’ve had thousands of shootings since 1 January … Almost 4,000 people in Chicago have been killed since Barack Obama became president.”
• “We have to take the guns away from the people that shouldn’t have them … These are bad people.”  This argument flies in the face of Trump’s pro-gun rights stance for legal owners; he has repeatedly and falsely insisted that Clinton wants to take away guns from legal owners.  Trump claimed that New York’s crime rate is up since the end of stop and frisk.
• Trump: Clinton has been “fighting Isis your entire adult life”.
• He further said “Whether [the DNC hack] was Russia, whether that was China, whether that was another country, we don’t know.”
• Trump has claimed that Nato must turn to a directly anti-terror campaign in the Middle East, and that his urging has already influenced the alliance.
• Trump on the Iran nuclear deal: “One of the worst deals ever made by any country in history.” He said $400m in cash was part of that deal – and Clinton was responsible.
• Trump: “I was just endorsed by ICE.”  Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a government agency. It does not endorse political candidates. A group of former customs officials endorsed Trump just before the debate.
• Clinton: “Donald is one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis.”  Clinton is correct, and Trump unrepentant. In a video made in 2006 for his defunct and legally embattled Trump University, Trump said he hoped for a real estate “bubble burst”.  “I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy” property and “make a lot of money”, he said.  “That’s called business by the way,” Trump interrupted Clinton.
• Clinton claimed that African American men are more likely to be killed by guns than other demographics.
• Clinton: Trump has been “praiseworthy of Vladimir Putin”. Trump: “Wrong.” Advertisement  Trump has repeatedly called Russia’s president a “strong leader” and spoken approvingly – “praise” by nearly any definition – of this strength and Putin’s polling numbers. For instance, on 18 December 2015 he told MSNBC: “I’ve always felt fine about Putin. I think that he’s a strong leader.”  He added: “He’s running his country and at least he’s a leader, unlike what we have in this country.”  Last September, he told Fox News: “In terms of leadership [Putin’s] getting an A.” In a 10 March debate, Trump tried to hedge on semantics. “Strong doesn’t mean good,” he said. “Putin is a strong leader, absolutely. He is a strong leader. Now I don’t say that in a good way or a bad way. I say it as a fact.”
• Clinton: “Donald supported the invasion of Iraq.” Trump: “Wrong.”